Search results
People also ask
Who was the king of Hungary?
Which dynasty ruled Hungary?
Who came to Hungary in 1241?
Who adopted Christianity as a state religion in Hungary?
Peter Orseolo, or Peter the Venetian (Hungarian: Velencei Péter; 1010 or 1011 – 1046, or late 1050s), was the King of Hungary twice. He first succeeded his uncle, King Stephen I , in 1038. His favoritism towards his foreign courtiers caused an uprising which ended with his 1041 deposition.
Timeline. Family tree. See also. References. External links. List of Hungarian monarchs. This is a list of Hungarian monarchs; it includes the grand princes (895–1000) and the kings and ruling queens of Hungary (1000–1918). Holy Crown of Hungary.
Name Reign CoronationPortraitArmsBirth ParentageStephen I Saint Stephen 1st king of ...King Stephen on the Thronec. 975 Esztergom Son of Géza, Grand ...Blessed Gisela of Bavaria Otto Saint ...Peter Peter Orseolo or Peter the Venetian ...King Peter1011 Venice Son of Otto Orseolo, Doge of ...Samuel Samuel Aba 3rd king of Hungary ...King Samuel Abac. 990 or c. 1009Peter Peter Orseolo or Peter the Venetian ...King Peter Gives Hungary as a Vassal to ...1011 Venice Son of Otto Orseolo, Doge of ...Peter. king of Hungary. Also known as: Peter Orseolo. Learn about this topic in these articles: association with Saint Gerard. In St. Gerard. …1031, Stephen appointed his nephew, Peter Orseolo, to be his successor. But when Stephen died in 1038, anarchy ensued as various parties vied for the crown.
Peter Orseolo, or Peter the Venetian (Hungarian: Velencei Péter; 1010 or 1011 – 1046, or late 1050s), was the King of Hungary twice. He first succeeded his uncle, King Stephen I, in 1038. His favoritism towards his foreign courtiers caused an uprising which ended with his 1041 deposition .
- Childhood
- Rex Iunior
- His Reign
- Family
- Legacy
Béla was the oldest son of King Andrew II of Hungary by his first wife, Gertrude of Merania. He was born in the second half of 1206. Upon King Andrew's initiative, Pope Innocent IIIhad already appealed to the Hungarian prelates and barons on 7 June to swear an oath of loyalty to the King's future son. Queen Gertrude showed blatant favoritism toward...
Duke of Slavonia
The senior king ceded the lands between the Adriatic Sea and the Dráva River—Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia—to Béla in 1220. A letter of 1222 of Pope Honorius III reveals that "some wicked men" had forced Andrew II to share his realms with his heir. Béla initially styled himself as "King Andrew's son and King" in his charters; from 1222 he used the title "by the Grace of God, King, son of the King of Hungary, and Duke of all Slavonia". Béla separated from his wife in the first half of 1222 up...
Duke of Transylvania
King Andrew transferred Béla from Slavonia to Transylvania in 1226. In Slavonia, he was succeeded by his brother, Coloman. As Duke of Transylvania, Béla adopted an expansionist policy aimed at the territories over the Carpathian Mountains. He supported the Dominicans' proselytizing activities among the Cumans, who dominated these lands. In 1227 he crossed the mountains and met Boricius, a Cuman chieftain, who had decided to convert to Christianity. At their meeting, Boricius and his subjects...
Before the Mongol invasion
King Andrew died on 21 September 1235. Béla, who succeeded his father without opposition, was crowned king by Robert, Archbishop of Esztergom in Székesfehérvár on 14 October. He dismissed and punished many of his father's closest advisors. For instance, he had Palatine Denis blinded and Julius Kán imprisoned. The former was accused of having, in King Andrew's life, an adulterous liaison with Queen Beatrix, the King's young widow. Béla ordered her imprisonment, but she managed to escape to the...
Mongol invasion of Hungary
The Mongols gathered in the lands bordering Hungary and Poland under the command of Batu Khan in December 1240. They demanded Béla's submission to their Great Khan Ögödei, but Béla refused to yield and had the mountain passes fortified. The Mongols broke through the barricades erected in the Verecke Pass(Veretsky Pass, Ukraine) on 12 March 1241. Duke Frederick II of Austria, who arrived to assist Béla against the invaders, defeated a small Mongol troop near Pest. He seized prisoners, includin...
"Second Founder of the State"
Upon his return to Hungary in May 1242, Béla found a country in ruins. Devastation was especially heavy in the plains east of the Danube where at least half of the villages were depopulated. The Mongols had destroyed most traditional centers of administration, which were defended by earth-and-timber walls. Only well-fortified places, such as Esztergom, Székesfehérvár and the Pannonhalma Abbey, had successfully resisted siege.A severe famine followed in 1242 and 1243. Preparation for a new Mon...
Béla's wife, Maria Laskarina was born in 1207 or 1208, according to historian Gyula Kristó. She died in July or August 1270. Their first child, Kunigunda, was born in 1224, four years after her parents' marriage. She married Boleslaw the Chaste, Duke of Cracowin 1246. A second daughter, Margaret followed Kunigunda in about 1225; she died unmarried ...
Bryan Cartledge writes that Béla "reorganised the structure of government, re-established the rule of law, repopulated a devastated countryside, encouraged the growth of towns, created the new royal town of Buda and revived the commercial life of the country" during his over three-decade-long reign. Béla's posthumous epithet—the "second founder of ...
Peter Orseolo, or Peter the Venetian (Hungarian: Velencei Péter; 1010 or 1011 – 1046, or late 1050s), was the King of Hungary twice. He first succeeded his uncle, King Stephen I , in 1038. His favoritism towards his foreign courtiers caused an uprising which ended with his 1041 deposition.
Peter Orseolo, or Peter the Venetian (Hungarian: Velencei Péter; 1010 or 1011 – 1046, or late 1050s), was King of Hungary twice. He first succeeded his uncle, King Stephen I , in 1038. His favoritism towards his foreign courtiers caused an uprising which ended with his 1041 deposition.
