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Nicholas Sáfár
Nicholas (I) Sáfár de Csév (; died after 1384) was a Hungarian nobleman who held secular positions during the reign of Louis I of Hungary. Career Nicholas I was born into the Sáfár family as the son of Stephen I the ''Sáfár'' ("steward"), a prominent diplomat of Charles I of Hungary since the 1310s. Nicholas had a brother John I and two (or three) sisters. During his father's death in 1345, Nicholas and John were possibly still minors as their unidentified mother represented them before Louis I on the occasion of a confirmation request of their land donations in 1347. Nicholas Sáfár have gained in social status when married an unidentified daughter of Stephen Domoszlói, who originated from the ''gens'' (clan) Aba.Engel: ''Genealógia'' (Sáfár de Csév family) Due to his marriage, Sáfár served as castellan of Gönc and Regéc forts from 1371 to 1375, both ancient estates of the Aba kinship, which then belonged to the royal crown. Following that he simultaneously hel ...
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Borsod County
Borsod was an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. The capital of the county was Miskolc. After World War II, the county was merged with the Hungarian parts of Abaúj-Torna County and Zemplén (county), Zemplén counties to form Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county. Etymology The name comes from the personal name ''Bors'' (an early medieval magnate) with the -d suffix used to derive place names in old Hungarian language. The personal name ''Bors'' could have derived from ''bors'' (Hungarian "pepper") and/or derived from Turkish (a theory of János Melich) or from the Slavic languages, Slavic personal name ''Boriš'' (a theory of Elemér Moór). The problem has not been sufficiently resolved yet. E.g. Lajos Kiss suggests the Turkish origin, whilst Slovak scholars have been suggesting the Slavic origin since the times of Ján Stanislav who accepted Moór's theory as more reliable and pointed to several place names with similar etymolo ...
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Sáfár Family
The Sáfár de Csév () was a Hungarian noble family from the early 14th century until the middle of the 15th century. History The first member of the family was Stephen I, a well-trained diplomat of Charles I of Hungary since the 1300s, who was fluent in French and Italian, despite his commoner or lower noble status. A royal charter from 1326 writes Stephen "arrived to the realm along with the king harles, while another charter dated 1327 suggested Stephen served Charles immediately after the king's arrival in late 1300. Based on certain land donations, historian Krisztina Tóth considered Stephen originated from a lesser noble family which gained their first lands and villages in Požega County during the reign of Ladislaus IV. Accordingly, Stephen's father Paul supported Charles Martel and acknowledged his claim to the Hungarian throne against Andrew III. After the failure, this Paul might be one of those lords who followed Charles Martel to Naples. According to this theory, St ...
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Stephen Sáfár
Stephen Sáfár de Csév (; 1280s–1345) was a Hungarian diplomat, soldier and noble in the first half of the 14th century, a loyal supporter of Charles I of Hungary and his consolidation efforts. In this regard, Stephen served as ''ispán'' of Pilis County and castellan of Visegrád Castle, simultaneously from 1318 until his death. Origin His origin and family background remain unknown. According to a royal charter from 1338, his father was a certain Paul.Engel: ''Genealógia'' (Sáfár de Csév family) As a document issued on 30 August 1326 noted, Stephen "arrived to the realm along with the king harles, while another charter (dated 29 January 1327) suggested Stephen served Charles immediately after the king's arrival in late 1300. Thus it is possible that Stephen of foreign origin accompanied the twelve-year-old Charles from Naples to Hungary. This assumption is confirmed by the fact that Stephen served as envoy of Charles to foreign lands at least nine times by 1326, which as ...
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Louis I Of Hungary
Louis I, also Louis the Great (; ; ) or Louis the Hungarian (; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370. He was the first child of Charles I of Hungary and his wife, Elizabeth of Poland, to survive infancy. A 1338 treaty between his father and Casimir III of Poland, Louis's maternal uncle, confirmed Louis's right to inherit the Kingdom of Poland if his uncle died without a son. In exchange, Louis was obliged to assist his uncle to reoccupy the lands that Poland had lost in previous decades. He bore the title Duke of Transylvania between 1339 and 1342 but did not administer the province. Louis was of age when he succeeded his father in 1342, but his deeply religious mother exerted a powerful influence on him. He inherited a centralized kingdom and a rich treasury from his father. During the first years of his reign, Louis launched a crusade against the Lithuanians and restored royal power in Croatia; his troops ...
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Charles I Of Hungary
Charles I, also known as Charles Robert (; ; ; 128816 July 1342), was King of Hungary and Croatia in the union with Hungary, Croatia from 1308 to his death. He was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou and the only son of Charles Martel of Anjou, Charles Martel, Prince of Salerno. His father was the eldest son of Charles II of Naples and Mary of Hungary, Queen of Naples, Mary of Hungary. Mary laid claim to Hungary after her brother, Ladislaus IV of Hungary, died in 1290, but the Hungarian prelates and lords elected her cousin, Andrew III of Hungary, Andrew III, king. Instead of abandoning her claim to Hungary, she transferred it to her son, Charles Martel, and after his death in 1295, to her grandson, Charles. On the other hand, her husband, Charles II of Naples, made their third son, Robert the Wise, Robert, heir to the Kingdom of Naples, thus disinheriting Charles. Charles came to the Kingdom of Hungary upon the invitation of an influential Croatian lord, Paul I Šubić of ...
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Aba (genus)
Aba is a noble kindred (''genus'') of the Kingdom of Hungary which according to the ''Gesta Hungarorum'' ("The Deeds of the Hungarians" part 32) derives from Pata (Latin: Pota) who was a nephew to Ed and Edemen and the ancestor of Samuel Aba. Some modern scholars have proposed that the family's ancestors may have been among the chieftain, tribal leaders of the Kabars (three nomadic tribes that joined the tribal federation of the Magyars in the 9th century).Peter F. Sugar, Péter Hanák, Tibor Frank, A History of Hungary, Indiana University Press, 1994 page 1/ref> The ''Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum'' ("The Deeds of the Huns and the Hungarians", 1282–85) connects the family to Attila the Hun. The Gesta Hungarorum mentions that Ed and Edemen received land possession around the forest of the Mátra Mountains, especially in Gyöngyöspata – Heves County, after the conquest of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin by the Magyars (around 895). Pata built a castle in their forest wh ...
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Gönc
Gönc ( Slovak: ''Gynec'') is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county in Northern Hungary, 55 kilometers from county capital Miskolc. It is the northernmost town of Hungary and the second smallest town of the county. History Gönc has been inhabited since the Conquest of Hungary. In the Middle Ages it was royal estate and an important market town. Between 1570 and 1647, it was the seat of the county of Abaúj county and, as a result, it developed into an ever-growing market town. Although the lands in this region were owned by Magyar landlords, Gönc itself was a crown possession. In the 13th century the court invited German craftsmen to settle at Gönc, as was the practice in many other settlements. As a result of this, the village became more and more dominated by the new settlers. During the age of the Reformation, Gönc became a cultural centre. It was here that Gáspár Károli, the first to translate the Bible into Hungarian in 1590, served as a minister. He is comm ...
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Regéc
Regéc is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in northeastern Hungary.Központi Statisztikai Hivatal (KSH)


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Regéc village is in the . Has road connections with Mogyoróska, Háromhuta and Fony. The village situated in a valley opened to the west with the stream flowing toward

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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. (, , and ),Kirschbaum 2007, p. 315. deriving from title of župan, was the leader of a castle district (a fortress and the royal lands attached to it) in the Kingdom of Hungary from the early 11th century. Most of them were also heads of the basic administrative units of the kingdom, called County (Kingdom of Hungary), counties, and from the 13th century the latter function became dominant. The ''ispáns'' were appointed and dismissed by either the king of Hungary, monarchs or a high-ranking royal official responsible for the administration of a larger territorial unit within the kingdom. They fulfilled administrative, judicial and military functions in one or more counties. Heads of counties were often represented locally by their deputies, the vice-ispánsRady 2000, p. 41. (,Nemes 1989, p. 21. ...
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Nógrád County (former)
Nógrád (Hungarian language, Hungarian; , or ', ) was an administrative county (') of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now divided between Hungary and Slovakia. The name ' is still used in Slovakia as an informal designation of the corresponding territory. The name is derived from the former castle in Hungary. Geography In 1910, Nógrád county shared borders with the counties of Hont County, Hont, Zólyom county, Zólyom, Gömör-Kishont, Heves County (former), Heves and Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun. It was situated approximately along the line Poltár, Losonc (today Lučenec), Szécsény and Vác. The river Ipeľ, Ipoly (Slovak: Ipeľ) flowed through the county. Its area was 4,133 km2 around 1910. Capitals The capital of the county was Balassagyarmat, except for the 18th century, when the capital was Lučenec, Losonc. History Nógrád was one of the first counties of the Kingdom of Hungary, founded in the 11th century. Large part of its territory was ruled by the O ...
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Diósgyőr Castle
Diósgyőr (Hungarian: dioːʒɟøːr is a historical town in Hungary, today it is a part of Miskolc. The medieval castle in Diósgyőr was a favourite holiday residence of Hungarian kings and queens; today it is a popular tourist attraction. The city part has a heavy industrial background. The football team of Miskolc is also named after Diósgyőr; their soccer stadium lies within the district. Origin of the name ''Dió'' means walnut, referring to the abundant walnut trees in the area. ''Győr'' is an archaic version of the word ''gyűrű'', meaning "ring". It probably refers to the rounded shape of the first castle erected on the hill. The history of Diósgyőr and the castle The area has been inhabited since ancient times, as the remains of a settlement found near the castle testify. The name of the town was first mentioned by the anonymous author of Gesta Hungarorum around 1200, as ''Geuru'', the archaic spelling for ''Győr'': "After our leader Árpád left Szerenc ...
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Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
Sigismund of Luxembourg (15 February 1368 – 9 December 1437) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1433 until his death in 1437. He was elected King of Germany (King of the Romans) in 1410, and was also King of Bohemia from 1419, as well as prince-elector of Margraviate of Brandenburg, Brandenburg (1378–1388 and 1411–1415). As the husband of Mary, Queen of Hungary, he was also King of Hungary and Croatia in union with Hungary, Croatia (''jure uxoris'') from 1387. He was the last male member of the House of Luxembourg. Sigismund was the son of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and his fourth wife Elizabeth of Pomerania. He married Mary, Queen of Hungary in 1385 and was crowned King of Hungary soon after. He fought to restore and maintain authority to the throne. Mary died in 1395, leaving Sigismund the sole ruler of Kingdom of Hungary, Hungary. In 1396, Sigismund led the Battle of Nicopolis, Crusade of Nicopolis but was decisively defeated by the Ottoman Empire. Afterwards, he founded t ...
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