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Coloman of Halych ( Hungarian: Kálmán; Ukrainian: Коломан; 1208 – 1241) was the ruler—from 1214 prince, and from 1215 or 1216 to 1221 king—of Halych, and duke of Slavonia from 1226 to his death. He was the second son of Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania.
- 1214–1219, 1219–1221
- Gertrude of Merania
Coloman had confronted this split in the universal church as king of Galicia, a “schismatic” territory. It is not known whether Innocent III had an underlying plan when he granted permission for Coloman's coronation there, but he was no doubt keen to expand Roman authority into this region.
Coloman was crowned the first king of Halych with the pope's authorization in early 1216. Coloman of Halych was the ruler—from 1214 prince, and from 1215 or 1216 to 1221 king—of Halych, and duke of Slavonia from 1226 to his death.
Coloman, the main character of the book, it is important to recognize, is a significant figure in the historiography of several contemporary countries, which means that we as historians need to be aware of sensitivities around his heritage.
Summary. PRINCE COLOMAN, SECOND son of King Andrew II (1205–35) and younger brother of King Béla IV (1235–70), is perhaps not the best-known member of the Árpádian dynasty (1000–1301), nor of medieval Hungarian rulers, yet his life was quite extraordinary.
A figure of crucial importance to scholarship on western and eastern Europe alike, King Coloman (1208–1241) here receives long-overdue scholarly treatment as a key figure of the thirteenth century.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvpb3wbn.13. IN 1226 COLOMAN became ruler of a whole swathe of territory, far from Scepus on the border of today’s Poland, at the opposite end of the Hungarian kingdom, more than 500 km to the south of Spiš castle, over what we knew till recently as Yugoslavia.
