The Atyusz kindred's estates lie in Zala county on the uplands above the north shore of the Balaton: Almád (Monostorapáti), where Atyusz I founded the Benedictine abbey of the Virgin and All Saints in 1121 and gave it eight villages, Vöröstó, Szigliget and Kövesd (by Csopak).
In 1200 the kindred is between generations: Atyusz II is last seen in 1190, his son Atyusz III first in 1202, when he begins a career of offices under both Emeric and Andrew. Its side in 1199 is not recorded.
Who he is
- Name
- Atyusz II 'the Great' (fl. 1174-1190) or his son Atyusz III (fl. 1202-1233): who heads the kindred on 1 January 1200 is not pinned
- Title
- Kindred (nemzetség) of Atyusz
- Family
- Descended from Bánd I (died 1117); Atyusz I founded Almád abbey in 1121. Atyusz III will be judge royal (1215-1217) and ban of Slavonia.
- Confidence
- low
English Wikipedia, Atyusz (genus), after Nemes and Zsoldos.
Overlord
King Emeric
What it holds
- Almád (Monostorapáti) and the patronage of Almád abbey
- Vöröstó
- Szigliget
- Kövesd (by Csopak)
How it was acquired
Ancestral.
How things stand that morning
Holding its Zala estates; side in the brothers' war not pinned.
Wealth
Balaton upland vineyards and villages.
Military
Not pinned (Szigliget's castle is later, after 1260).
Places of note
- Almád abbey (1121): The kindred's Benedictine abbey.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: The estates are named in the kindred's records but not dated to 1200.
On the map: Village units only; the kindred's full holding is not known.
Primary sources for Hungary
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Chronicle of Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Alberic of Trois-Fontaines (about 1227 to 1241, at the Cistercian abbey of Trois-Fontaines in Champagne). The widest net of any Latin chronicle for 1200, compiled from dozens of sources, many now lost. Read online
- The Austrian and Salzburg annals (kept in the 12th and 13th centuries, with continuations to the late 13th century). A family of monastic annals from Austria, Styria and Salzburg, printed together. Read online
- The Hypatian Chronicle (the Kievan Chronicle compiled about 1200 at the Vydubichi monastery; the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle in the 13th century). The southern record. Read online
- History of the bishops of Salona and Split, by Thomas the Archdeacon, Thomas of Split (about 1266). Written two generations later by a Split churchman born about 1200. Read online
- History of the doges of Venice (about 1229, with a continuation). The earliest surviving Venetian narrative close to the events. Read online
- The Deeds of the Hungarians, by the Anonymous Notary of King Béla, Anonymus (P. magister) (about 1200 to 1210, the date disputed). Not a record of events but a picture of the kingdom's nobility and geography as a courtier of about 1200 wished to see it: the clans and their lands, the castles and counties, the Vlachs, Cumans and other peoples of the Carpathian basin, all projected back onto the conquest. Read online
- The Book of Census of the Roman Church, Cencius Camerarius (Cencio Savelli, later Pope Honorius III) (1192, with later additions). The papal rent roll: every church, monastery, town and kingdom that owed a census to Rome in 1192, diocese by diocese, with the sums, followed by lists of papal lands and castles, the ceremonial Ordo and copies of charters. Read online
- The Registers of Pope Innocent III for 1199 to 1201, Innocent III and the papal chancery (22 February 1199 to 21 February 1201). The pope's outgoing letters for the year, in his chancery's own copy, touching nearly every realm in the atlas. Read online
4 more in the sources library for Poland, Hungary and the Adriatic.
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.