Ispánság of Szolnok

Who he is

Name

Ampud II

Title

Ispán (comes) of Szolnok

Since

On record 1199, after Peter son of Töre (about 1198)

Born

not pinned

Family

Not given in the sources reached; the name recalls the twelfth-century palatine Ampud.

Confidence

medium

English Wikipedia (Peter, son of Töre), after Zsoldos: Peter lost Szolnok by 1199, 'when ... Ampud II became ispán of Szolnok'.

Overlord

King Emeric.

What it holds

• Szolnok castle (earthwork with timber) at the Zagyva mouth, the Tisza ferry and the salt depot.
• The castle folk and royal lands of the county on both banks of the Tisza.

How it was acquired

Royal appointment, by 1199.

Allies and rivals

Replaced Andrew's presumed partisan Peter son of Töre.

How things stand that morning

Ampud II is the last ispán on record (1199) before 1 January 1200, serving Emeric; nothing places anyone else in office that morning.

Wealth

Salt and Tisza tolls; the ferry.

Military

The earthwork castle; castle warriors.

Places of note

• Szolnok castle: County seat on the Tisza.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: One dated mention (1199); the county's bounds and its link to Transylvanian Szolnok are not pinned.

On the map: Later medieval bounds of the Tisza part only.

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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