Nicholas (I) Sáfár de Csév (; died after 1384) was a Hungarian nobleman who held secular positions during the reign of

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 ...

Career

Nicholas I was born into the

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 ...

as the son of

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the ''Sáfár'' ("steward"), a prominent diplomat of

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 A ...

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 Regéc is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in northeastern Hungary.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, ...

'' of

Borsod Borsod was an administrative county (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 counties to form Borsod-Aba ...

and

Nógrád Nógrád (; ) is a village in Nógrád County, Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to ...

Counties between 1376 and 1384. Beside that he also served as castellan of

Diósgyőr Diósgyőr (Hungarian: Help:IPA/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 t ...

and Dédes Castles, both were part of the honour to the dignity of Borsod ispánate. Nicholas Sáfár and his spouse had four children. Two of their sons, Nicholas II and John II rebelled against the rule of

Sigismund of Luxemburg 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-elect ...

and were declared "treacherous" in 1405. As a result Sigismund confiscated their domains. Gaining pardon later, Nicholas and John was able to recover a portion of their property but gradually impoverished and forced to mortgage their inherited estates. Nicholas I's only daughter Dorothea I married Paul Perényi from the Rihnó branch, who acquired most of the Sáfár estates from his brothers-in-law.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Safar, Nicholas 14th-century Hungarian people

Nicholas Nicholas is a male name, the Anglophone version of an ancient Greek name in use since antiquity, and cognate with the modern Greek , . It originally derived from a combination of two Ancient Greek, Greek words meaning 'victory' and 'people'. In ...