Pousa from the kindred Bár-Kalán ( hu, Bár-Kalán nembeli Pósa; died between 1222 and 1255) was a Hungarian noble, who served as
Judge royal
The judge royal, also justiciar,Rady 2000, p. 49. chief justiceSegeš 2002, p. 202. or Lord Chief JusticeFallenbüchl 1988, p. 145. (german: Oberster Landesrichter,Fallenbüchl 1988, p. 72. hu, országbíró,Zsoldos 2011, p. 26. sk, krajinsk ...
for a short time in 1222, during the reign of
Andrew II of Hungary
Andrew II ( hu, II. András, hr, Andrija II., sk, Ondrej II., uk, Андрій II; 117721 September 1235), also known as Andrew of Jerusalem, was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1205 and 1235. He ruled the Principality of Halych from 11 ...
.
He belonged to the
Sáp
Sáp is a village in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia t ...
branch of the ''gens'' Bár-Kalán as the son of Nana I. Possibly he had two brothers, Peter and Gregory. Pousa married first to Elizabeth from the
Győr kindred, a daughter of
Palatine
A palatine or palatinus (in Latin; plural ''palatini''; cf. derivative spellings below) is a high-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times. Pat Győr
Pat (I) from the kindred Győr ( hu, Győr nembeli (I.) Pat; died after 1221) was a Hungarian influential lord at the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries, who served as Palatine of Hungary from 1209 until 1212.
Family
Pat (also Pot or Poth) was b ...
. They had a son, Nana II (who married a daughter of Palatine
Mojs I
Mojs, also Moys or Majos (died after 1233) was a Hungarian noble, who served as Palatine of Hungary between 1228 and 1231, during the reign of Andrew II.
Career
His father and family background is unknown. Mojs owned landholdings mostly in Som ...
), and two daughters, including Lucia, who married Vejte II, the son of
Vejte I Csanád.
[Engel: ''Genealógia'' (Genus Bár-Kalán, Sáp branch)] Pousa's second wife was an unidentified daughter of
Héder II Héder. Their marriage produced a son, Walter.
Historian Mór Wertner identified him a certain Pousa, who served as
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 1216. Soon he was replaced by his distant relative
Bánk Bár-Kalán
Bánk of the Bár-Kalán clan ( hu, Bárkalán nembéli Bánk; died after 1222) was an influential nobleman in the Kingdom of Hungary in the first decades of the 13th century. He was Palatine of Hungary between 1212 and 1213, Judge royal from 1221 ...
. As formerly he was a loyal supporter of
King Emeric, his baronial league came to the fore, when the nobles forced Andrew II to issue the
Golden Bull of 1222
The Golden Bull of 1222 was a golden bull, or edict, issued by Andrew II of Hungary. King Andrew II was forced by his nobles to accept the Golden Bull (Aranybulla), which was one of the first examples of constitutional limits being placed on the ...
. He was elected Judge royal, beside that he also functioned 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 ...
'' of
Borsod and
Csanád Counties. However soon Pousa and other Emeric-partisan lords had lost their influence, he was replaced by
Lawrence Atyusz as Judge royal and his career ended. Pousa died sometime between 1222 and 15 March 1255.
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Pousa
13th-century Hungarian people
Judges royal
Bans of Slavonia
12th-century births
13th-century deaths
Year of birth unknown
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