Mark (I) from the kindred Csák ( hu, Csák nembeli (I.) Márk; d. after 1259)
[Zsoldos 2011, p. 327.] was a Hungarian noble, who served as
ispán
The ispánRady 2000, p. 19.''Stephen Werbőczy: The Customary Law of the Renowned Kingdom of Hungary in Three Parts (1517)'', p. 450. or countEngel 2001, p. 40.Curta 2006, p. 355. ( hu, ispán, la, comes or comes parochialis, and sk, župan)Kirs ...
(''comes'') of
Hont County
Hont County was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Most of its territory is now part of Slovakia, while a smaller southern portion is part of Hungary.
Today, in Slovakia Hont is the informal designation of the corres ...
in 1247.
[Zsoldos 2011, p. 159.]
He was born into the Trencsén branch of the
''gens'' Csák as the eldest son of
Matthew I Matthew I may refer to:
*Matthew I Csák
Matthew (I) from the kindred Csák ( hu, Csák nembeli (I.) Máté; sk, Matúš Čák I; ? – 1245/1249) was a powerful Hungarian baron of king Béla IV, the first known member of the Trencsén branch o ...
and Margaret from an unidentified family.
[Kristó 1986, p. 31.] According to a royal charter in 1259, Mark owned
Lednic,
Upper Hungary
Upper Hungary is the usual English translation of ''Felvidék'' (literally: "Upland"), the Hungarian term for the area that was historically the northern part of the Kingdom of Hungary, now mostly present-day Slovakia. The region has also been ...
(today: ''Lednica, Slovakia''), where he built a castle. The name of the village was first mentioned here as "''Lednyche''". The charter refers to him as ''comes Mark de Lednyche''. Mark had two sons (Peter II and
Stephen II) and two daughters (one of them was Maria, the wife of
Ivánka Hont-Pázmány, then Zoeardus Zoárd).
[Engel: ''Genealógia'' (Genus Csák 6., Trencsén branch 1.)]
Mark's descendants remained landowners near the ancient estate of the genus,
Csákvár
Csákvár is a town in Fejér county, Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, ...
, while his brothers,
Stephen I,
Matthew II and
Peter I Peter I may refer to:
Religious hierarchs
* Saint Peter (c. 1 AD – c. 64–88 AD), a.k.a. Simon Peter, Simeon, or Simon, apostle of Jesus
* Pope Peter I of Alexandria (died 311), revered as a saint
* Peter I of Armenia (died 1058), Catholico ...
, as well as the latter's sons,
Matthew III and Csák acquired possessions in the north-western
counties
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of the
Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen ...
, where later Matthew III, as the most powerful oligarch, ruled ''
de facto
''De facto'' ( ; , "in fact") describes practices that exist in reality, whether or not they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms. It is commonly used to refer to what happens in practice, in contrast with ''de jure'' ("by la ...
'' independently of the king and usurped
royal prerogative
The royal prerogative is a body of customary authority, privilege and immunity, recognized in common law and, sometimes, in civil law jurisdictions possessing a monarchy, as belonging to the sovereign and which have become widely vested in th ...
s on his realm.
[Kristó 1986, p. 50.]
References
Sources
* Kristó, Gyula (1986). ''Csák Máté'' ("Matthew Csák"). Magyar História, Gondolat. Budapest.
* Zsoldos, Attila (2011). ''Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1000–1301'' ("Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1000–1301"). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. Budapest.
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Mark I
13th-century Hungarian people