Nana from the kindred Nánabeszter (; died after 1233) was a Hungarian nobleman and soldier in the 13th century.

Career

Nana II was born into the ''gens'' (clan) Nánabeszter, which possessed landholdings along the river

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in Central Hungary, in the surrounding area of royal capitals

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and

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. His father was Nana I, who is possibly identical with that namesake noble, who served as ''

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'' of the

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in Esztergomváralja (a settlement at the foot of

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) in 1184. Along with several other members of the kindred, Nana II was first mentioned in contemporary records in 1228, when they separated their estate in Nána (present-day in

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) from the landholdings of the

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. By the time of the separation in 1228, Nana and his relatives also possessed domains in the village of Berki in Pest County, which laid in the territory of present-day

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. Among them, only Nana appeared in subsequent contemporary documents. He participated in the military campaign against the

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in 1231, where he was present at the successful siege of

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. As a result, he was granted a portion of the village

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in the neighborhood of Berki by King

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in 1233 (the village was formerly possessed by Fabian Tétény). Nana was styled as "''procurator'' and ''provisor'' of the royal horses" in that year, which was a minor position in the royal court and there is no other known office-holders of the dignity. This is the last information about Nana.

Personal life

Nana married Agnes, daughter of Paul, a local neighboring lord in the village Berki. According to her own confession, Agnes was born in 1226. She joined the Dominican nuns at Rabbits' Island in 1258, after her husband's death in an unspecified time. Their son was Nana III. Following his mother, the childless Nana also entered the Dominican friars around 1266. They jointly donated the estate Sóskút to the Dominican nuns at Rabbits' Island in that year, which triggered protests from the distant relatives within the kindred. Agnes testified as the seventeenth nun during the investigation phase of the canonization process of St. Margaret of Hungary – daughter of King

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– in 1276.

References

Sources

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13th-century Hungarian military personnel Medieval Hungarian soldiers 13th-century Hungarian nobility