Csák kindred

Who he is

Name

Not pinned (lay head unknown); its leading man that winter is Ugrin, bishop of Győr

Title

Kindred (nemzetség) of Csák

Family

One of the old kindreds of the Gesta, said to descend from Szabolcs son of Előd; later twelve branches. Ugrin, bishop of Győr, archbishop of Esztergom in 1204, was of the kindred (perhaps a son of an ispán Ugrin of the twelfth century).

Confidence

low

English Wikipedia, Csák (genus); campaign notes (Ugrin Csák of Győr, Emeric's pillar).

Overlord

King Emeric

What it holds

• Csákvár and Csákberény in the Vértes
• The patronage of Vértesszentkereszt abbey (founding not pinned)
• Other estates in Fejér, Komárom and Veszprém (not pinned)

How it was acquired

Ancestral.

Allies and rivals

Emeric's party through Bishop Ugrin.

How things stand that morning

With the king (through Ugrin); lay members not pinned.

Places of note

• Vértesszentkereszt abbey: The kindred's abbey in the Vértes (site approximate).

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: The kindred's Vértes heartland is shown by its place-names; nothing on its estates or lay members is dated to 1200 in the sources checked.

On the map: A rough block round the Vértes; the kindred's holdings in 1200 are not documented.

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

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