Csanád kindred

Who he is

Name

No single head. Leading men that winter: Vejte, judge royal and ispán of Csanád (Vejte, judge royal); the sons of Belenyk (called ban in the kindred's genealogy, office not pinned): Clement (Kelemen), once ispán of Arad (date not pinned), Philip the Great (Nagy Fülöp) and Waffa, who held Szentkirály

Title

Kindred (nemzetség) of free landholders

Since

The kindred has held land here since its ancestor Csanád overthrew Ajtony (about 1028)

Born

not pinned

Family

Descended from Csanád, son of Doboka, kinsman of the Árpáds by the chronicles, Stephen I's commander and first count of Marosvár. Branches of the thirteenth century: the Vejtei (from Vejte), the Telegdi (from Pongrác, son of Clement, on record 1218-1256) and the Makófalvi.

Confidence

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Hungarian Wikipedia (Csanád nemzetség); English Wikipedia (Vejte Csanád).

Overlord

King Emeric.

What it holds

• Estates in the western part of Csanád county on the left bank of the Tisza: Kanizsa with the kindred's monastery (on record before 1241), Szanád, Padé and Jenő (thirteenth-century record; held in 1200 not pinned).
• Szentkirály (held by Philip the Great and Waffa; location and date not pinned).
• Estates in Temes and Szerém counties, on record before 1241 (not pinned for 1200).
• The Telegd branch's estates in Bihar (Berény, Borostelek, Pósalaka, Battyán, Telki): acquired before 1241, not pinned for 1200.

How it was acquired

By the ancestor Csanád's grant from Stephen I after Ajtony's fall (about 1028), and later grants.

Allies and rivals

Vejte is Emeric's officer; the side of the rest of the kindred in 1199 is not recorded.

How things stand that morning

A leading kindred of the king's party through Vejte; its estates are its own (hereditary, not county land).

Wealth

Estates on the Tisza and Maros; Vejte's offices.

Military

The kindred's own retainers; no castle of theirs is recorded for 1200.

Places of note

• Kanizsa monastery: The kindred's monastery at Kanizsa on the Tisza (on record before 1241); placed at Törökkanizsa, not pinned.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: The kindred's descent is chronicle tradition; its estates are mostly known from thirteenth-century records; Vejte's offices are dated.

On the map: A kindred's estates are scattered villages among royal and church land; this block marks their best-attested cluster.

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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