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Géza II ( Hungarian: II. Géza; Croatian: Gejza II.; Slovak: Gejza II.; 1130 – 31 May 1162) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1141 to 1162. He was the oldest son of Béla the Blind and his wife, Helena of Serbia. When his father died, Géza was still a child and he started ruling under the guardianship of his mother and her brother, Beloš.
- 16 February 1141
- Béla II
- 1141–1162
- Stephen III
Apr 26, 2022 · GÉZA, son of BÉLA II "the Blind" King of Hungary & his wife Jelena of Serbia ( [1130]-3 or 31 May 1162, bur Székesfehérvár). The Chronicon Dubnicense names "Geysam, Ladizlaum, Stephanum et Almus" as the four sons of "Bela cecus" [684]. The Annales Gradicenses record the death in 1141 of "Bela rex Ungarorum" and the accession of his son [685].
When Géza II, of Hungary was born in 1130, in Tolna, Tolna, Hungary, his father, Béla II of Hungary, was 21 and his mother, Helena of Serbia Queen of Hungary, was 15. He married Euphrosyne of Kiev in 1146. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters.
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Géza joined the coalition that Louis VII and Roger II of Sicily formed against Conrad III of Germany and the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos. The ancestors of the Transylvanian Saxons came to Hungary during Géza's reign. Western European knights and Muslim warriors from the Pontic steppes also settled in Hungary in this period.
Géza II was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1141 to 1162. He was the oldest son of Béla the Blind and his wife, Helena of Serbia. When his father died, Géza was still a child and he started ruling under the guardianship of his mother and her brother, Beloš. A pretender to the throne, Boris Kalamanos, who had already claimed Hungary during Béla the Blind's reign, temporarily captured ...
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Árpád dynasty. Father. Taksony. Géza ( c. 940 – 997), also Gejza, was Grand Prince of the Hungarians from the early 970s. He was the son of Grand Prince Taksony and his Oriental— Khazar, Pecheneg or Volga Bulgarian —wife. He married Sarolt, a daughter of an Eastern Orthodox Hungarian chieftain. After ascending the throne, Géza made ...
