Csák (II) from the kindred Hahót (; died after 1308) was a Hungarian noble, who served as bearer of the sword (, ) between 1256 and 1257. He was the ancestor of the Csányi noble family. He was born into the Buzád branch of the ''gens'' (clan) Hahót as the son of

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Csák I.Zsoldos 2011, p. 293. He held the position of head of Gora ispánate (part of

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) in 1256.Zsoldos 2011, p. 155. From 1256 to 1257, he functioned as bearer of the sword, which was a minor office in the royal court of

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(meanwhile his father was the

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).Zsoldos 2011, p. 254. Csák II served as

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(''comes'') of Vrbas County between 1266 and 1269.Zsoldos 2011, p. 178. His father built the fort Csáktornya (today Čakovec,

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) in the late 1250s. However

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then the increasing powerful

Kőszegi family The Kőszegi () was a noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary and the Kingdom of Croatia in the 13th and 14th centuries. The ancestor of the family, Henry the Great, descended from the ''gens'' ("clan") Héder. Henry's paternal great-grandfathe ...

captured the clan's all castles in the following years, causing the Buzád branch's move into Center Zala. Csák II settled down in Csány (today

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) after Ottokar's invasion, possibly he was that family member who built the local Zsidóvár ("Zsidó Castle"). The Csányi family (lit. "of Csány") ascended from there. Csák II functioned as master of the treasury for

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, the widow of

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in 1286.Zsoldos 2011, p. 75. He was still alive in 1308.

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