Heimo, also Heymo or Haymo, was a Hungarian prelate in the mid-13th century, who served as

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from around 1244 to 1254, during the reign of

Béla IV of Hungary Béla IV (1206 – 3 May 1270) was King of Hungary and King of Croatia, Croatia between 1235 and 1270, and Duke of Styria from 1254 to 1258. As the oldest son of Andrew II of Hungary, King Andrew II, he was crowned upon the initiative of a group ...

Career

The young cleric Heimo entered the service of Duke Béla, the eldest son and heir of

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. He functioned as chancellor of Béla's ducal court in

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in 1222. He was succeeded by

Matthias Rátót Matthias from the kindred Rátót (; died April 11, 1241) was a Hungarian prelate in the first half of the 13th century, who served as Bishop of Vác from 1238 to 1240, then Archbishop of Esztergom from 1239 until his death in the Battle of Mohi ...

in this capacity by 1224. Heimo was elected Bishop of Vác in the second half of 1243 or early 1244, succeeding Stephen Báncsa. In 1244 or 1245, Béla IV entrusted Heimo and local ''

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'' Henry Kőszegi to investigate and supervise previous royal land grants occurred in

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. In December 1252,

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mandated Heimo and

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to implement the papal command concerning the appointment of Stephen Báncsa as administrator of the

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. Heimo last appears in contemporary records in 1254, when Béla IV instructed him to assign the uninhabited royal land Kovácsi in Pest County to Egidius Kókai. Heimo was succeeded as bishop of Vác by

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in 1259 at the latest.

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