Nana from the kindred Nánabeszter ( hu, Nánabeszter nembeli Nána; died after 1233) was a Hungarian nobleman and soldier in the 13th century.

Career

Nana II was born into the ''gens'' (clan) Nánabeszter, which possessed landholdings along the river

Danube The Danube ( ; ) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , pa ...

in Central Hungary, in the surrounding area of royal capitals

Esztergom Esztergom ( ; german: Gran; la, Solva or ; sk, Ostrihom, known by alternative names) is a city with county rights in northern Hungary, northwest of the capital Budapest. It lies in Komárom-Esztergom County, on the right bank of the river Danu ...

and

Buda Buda (; german: Ofen, sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Budim, Будим, Czech and sk, Budín, tr, Budin) was the historic capital of the Kingdom of Hungary and since 1873 has been the western part of the Hungarian capital Budapest, on the ...

. His father was Nana I, who is possibly identical with that namesake noble, who served as '' ispán'' of the

udvornici The ''udvornici'', also ''udvarniks'' or royal serving people ( hu, udvarnokok, Slovak: ''dvorníci''), was a class of half-free people who were obliged to provide well-specified services to the royal court in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. They ...

in Esztergomváralja (a settlement at the foot of

Esztergom Castle Esztergom ( ; german: Gran; la, Solva or ; sk, Ostrihom, known by alternative names) is a city with county rights in northern Hungary, northwest of the capital Budapest. It lies in Komárom-Esztergom County, on the right bank of the river Danu ...

) in 1184. Along with several other members of the kindred, Nana II was first mentioned in contemporary records in 1228, when they separated their estate in Nána (present-day in

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

) from the landholdings of the

cathedral chapter According to both Catholic and Anglican canon law, a cathedral chapter is a college of clerics ( chapter) formed to advise a bishop and, in the case of a vacancy of the episcopal see in some countries, to govern the diocese during the vacancy. In ...

. By the time of the separation in 1228, Nana and his relatives also possessed domains in the village of Berki in Pest County, which laid in the territory of present-day Érd. Among them, only Nana appeared in subsequent contemporary documents. He participated in the military campaign against the Principality of Halych in 1231, where he was present at the successful siege of

Jarosław Jarosław (; uk, Ярослав, Yaroslav, ; yi, יאַרעסלאָוו, Yareslov; german: Jaroslau) is a town in south-eastern Poland, with 38,970 inhabitants, as of 30 June 2014. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), previ ...

. As a result, he was granted a portion of the village

Sóskút Sóskút is a village in Pest County, Hungary. History Media Several scenes of the movies John Adams (2008) and Move On (2012) were shot in the town. Residents * Georg von Habsburg (1964-), the grandson of Blessed Charles of Austria, the ...

in the neighborhood of Berki by King Andrew II of Hungary in 1233 (the village was formerly possessed by Fabian Tétény). Nana was styled as "''procurator'' and ''provisor'' of the royal horses" in that year, which was a minor position in the royal court and there is no other known office-holders of the dignity. This is the last information about Nana.

Personal life

Nana married Agnes, daughter of Paul, a local neighboring lord in the village Berki. According to her own confession, Agnes was born in 1226. She joined the Dominican nuns at Rabbits' Island in 1258, after her husband's death in an unspecified time. Their son was Nana III. Following his mother, the childless Nana also entered the Dominican friars around 1266. They jointly donated the estate Sóskút to the Dominican nuns at Rabbits' Island in that year, which triggered protests from the distant relatives within the kindred. Agnes testified as the seventeenth nun during the investigation phase of the canonization process of St. Margaret of Hungary – daughter of King Béla IV – in 1276.

References

Sources

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nanabeszter, Nana

Nana Nana, Nanna, Na Na or NANA may refer to: People and fictional characters * Nana (given name), including a list of people and characters with the given name * Nana (surname), including a list of people and characters with the surname * Nana (c ...

13th-century Hungarian people Medieval Hungarian soldiers