Thomas from the kindred Hahót ( hu, Hahót nembeli Tamás; died 1256) was a Hungarian prelate, who served as the
Archbishop of Kalocsa from 1254 to 1256.
Biography
Thomas was born into the Buzád branch of the
''gens'' Hahót as the son of Buzád III Hahót and
Eve Atyusz. His grandfathers were
Buzád II Hahót, a notable baron and later
Dominican martyr of the Christian Church, and
Sal Atyusz
Sal from the kindred Atyusz ( hu, Atyusz nembeli Sal; died between 1227 and 1237) was a Hungarian noble, who served as '' ispán'' of Karakó ispánate in 1205.
He was a member of the Atyusz kindred, his cousins were the influential lords Atyusz ...
, who held the position of ''
ispán'' of
Karakó
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Etymology
The name comes from Slavic ''Krakov'', see also Krakov (Czech Republic), Kraków
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ispánate in 1205. Thomas had three siblings:
Sal
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, a clergyman,
Atyusz, who governed several counties since the 1270s and was head of the household of Queen Mother
Tomasina Morosini
Tomasina Morosini (c. 1250 in Venice – 1300 in Óbuda), Duchess of Slavonia, was a member of the prominent Venetian Morosini family. Her son was Andrew III, the Venetian King of Hungary.
Life
She was the daughter of Michele Sbarra Morosini, Pat ...
for a time, and an unidentified sister, who married local nobleman Ant from
Zala County.
[Engel: ''Genealógia'' (Genus Hahót 2., Buzád branch)]
Thomas was first mentioned in 1227 by a contemporary document, when he inherited the estate of Bersen from his maternal grandfather, Sal Atyusz. He entered ecclesiastical service. In 1243, he was mentioned as provost of
Buda
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. In this capacity, he filed a lawsuit against the burghers of Buda who declined to recognize his judicial authority. King
Béla IV of Hungary ruled in favor of Thomas. From 1252 to 1254, he served as vice-chancellor in the royal court, in addition to his church office of provost-elect of
Fehérvár.
Benedict
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, the Archbishop of Kalocsa elevated to the position of
Archbishop of Esztergom
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in April 1254, confirmed by
Pope Innocent IV. The archiepiscopal see in
Kalocsa remained vacant for the upcoming months. In the second half of 1254, Thomas Hahót was elected as Archbishop of Kalocsa, proving by a letter from Innocent's successor,
Pope Alexander IV, dated 12 February 1255. According to this, the Pope urged the canons of archdiocese, Lawrence of Kalocsa and Nicholas of Bács, to finance retrospectively the electoral process of Archbishop Thomas with borrowing 150 denari. His brother Sal functioned as ''lector'' at the Bács Cathedral (today in
Bač, Serbia
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), the second seat of the archbishopric during his term. However Thomas soon died in late 1256.
Smaragd succeeded him in the next year.
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Thomas
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Archbishops of Kalocsa
13th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Hungary
13th-century Hungarian people