Macarius (I) from the kindred Monoszló ( hu, Monoszló nembeli (I.) Makariás) was a Hungarian noble, the first known member of the
''gens'' Monoszló.
Career
His unidentified father, the ancestor of the kindred received the estate of
Monoszló (today Podravska Moslavina,
Croatia
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) in Križevci County in
Slavonia
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from
Béla III of Hungary. There he also granted the right of ''
marturina
The ''marturina'', or marten's fur, was a tax collected in the lands to the south of the Drava River in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary.
Origins
The name of the ''marturina'' indicates that it was originally an in-kind tax, collected in marten ...
'', a type of tax in Croatia which was collected in the then highly valued marten skins. Macarius was one of his four sons and the only one who is known by name.
Macarius owned
Szond,
Bács County (today Sonta,
Serbia
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) by 1196 and married a daughter of
Peter Győr from the Szenterzsébet branch. He served as ''
ispán'' (head) of
Szolnok County
Szolnok County was a county in the Kingdom of Hungary
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around from 1192 to 1193, during the late reign of Béla III. It is possible that he was identical with that Macarius, who held the dignity of vice-ban of Primorje in 1189.
He had at least three sons from his marriage.
Thomas I became a prominent supporter of
Duke Andrew and participated in his
rebellion
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A rebellion originates from a sentiment of indignation and disapproval of a situation and ...
against King
Emeric
Emerich, Emeric, Emerick and Emerik are given names and surnames. They may refer to:
Given name Pre-modern era
* Saint Emeric of Hungary (c. 1007–1031), son of King Stephen I of Hungary
* Emeric, King of Hungary (1174–1204)
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. Andrew II later made Thomas his
Ban of Slavonia
Ban of Slavonia ( hr, Slavonski ban; hu, szlavón bán; la, Sclavoniæ banus) or the Ban of "Whole Slavonia" ( hr, ban cijele Slavonije; hu, egész Szlavónia bánja; la, totius Sclavoniæ banus) was the title of the governor of a territor ...
in 1228. Nicholas I and Stephen I remained only landowners in the county without political significance, their branches became extinct by the 1250s.
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12th-century Hungarian people
Macarius Macarius is a Latinized form of the old Greek given name Makários (Μακάριος), meaning "happy, fortunate, blessed"; confer the Latin '' beatus'' and ''felix''. Ancient Greeks applied the epithet ''Makarios'' to the gods.
In other languag ...