Leustach Rátót ( hu, Rátót nembeli (I.) Leusták, "Leustach (I) from the kindred Rátót") was a Hungarian distinguished nobleman from the
''gens'' Rátót, ancestor of the Palatine and Gyulafi branches.
According to a royal charter from 1230, he served as
voivode of Transylvania
The Voivode of Transylvania (german: Vojwode von Siebenbürgen;Fallenbüchl 1988, p. 77. hu, erdélyi vajda;Zsoldos 2011, p. 36. la, voivoda Transsylvaniae; ro, voievodul Transilvaniei) was the highest-ranking official in Transylvania wit ...
from 1176 to ''c.'' 1196, thus he was the first reliably attested person to hold that office.
[Kristó 2003, p. 97.][Curta 2006, p. 355.]
Leustach, alongside
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. Ampud
Ampud, also Ampod, Apod or Ompud ( la, Ompudinus; died 1186) was a powerful aristocrat in the Kingdom of Hungary in the second half of the 12th century. He was Ban of Slavonia between 1163 or 1164 and 1171 or 1174, and Palatine of Hungary from aro ...
(Ompud), was commissioned to lead the Hungarian reinforcements sent to the
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
against the
Seljuks
The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids ( ; fa, سلجوقیان ''Saljuqian'', alternatively spelled as Seljuqs or Saljuqs), also known as Seljuk Turks, Seljuk Turkomans "The defeat in August 1071 of the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes
by the Turk ...
in the
Battle of Myriokephalon
The Battle of Myriokephalon (also known as the Battle of Myriocephalum, gr, Μάχη του Μυριοκέφαλου, tr, Miryokefalon Savaşı or ''Düzbel Muharebesi'') was a battle between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Turks in Phryg ...
of 1176. The battle ended with the victory of the Seljuks.
[Markó 2006, p. 216.]
References
Sources
* Curta, Florin (2006). ''Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250''. Cambridge University Press. .
* Kristó, Gyula (2003). ''Early Transylvania (895–1324)''. Lucidus Kiadó. .
* Markó, László: A magyar állam főméltóságai Szent Istvántól napjainkig – Életrajzi Lexikon ''(The High Officers of the Hungarian State from Saint Stephen to the Present Days – A Biographical Encyclopedia)'' (2nd edition); Helikon Kiadó Kft., 2006, Budapest; .
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Voivodes of Transylvania
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Medieval Transylvanian people
12th-century Hungarian people