A note for the campaign rather than a lordship.
The Ákos and the Rátót, who dominate parts of Borsod, Gömör and Nógrád in the later 13th century, are not yet established there on 1 January 1200 as far as the sources show, and must not be back-projected. The Bár-Kalán appear in the north only through Bánk's office at Újvár (1199). Other northern kindreds (the Ludány and Divék of Nyitra, the Zách of Nógrád, the Baksa and Kaplon of Zemplén) are known from later charters and are not pinned for 1200.
Who he is
- Name
- see summary
- Title
- various kindreds
- Confidence
- medium
Checked against the kindred histories reached: the Ákos (ancestral seat at Ákos in the Szilágy, outside this area; Borsod holdings such as Diósgyőr and Zsolca documented only from the mid-13th century), the Rátót (first estates in Vas, Veszprém and Pest; their Nógrád, Gömör and Borsod lands are later acquisitions; first member in charters 1219), the Bár-Kalán (Bánk is ispán of Újvár in 1199, see Bánk, ispán of Újvár; the kindred's estates are mainly in Transdanubia).
Overlord
King Emeric of Hungary
How things stand that morning
None of these kindreds is pinned as a landholding power in Upper Hungary on 1 January 1200.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Negative findings from the kindred histories; absence of evidence, not proof of absence.
On the map: Not drawn.
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
- Ákos nemzetség (Hungarian Wikipedia)
- Rátót nemzetség (Hungarian Wikipedia)
- Rátót (genus) (Wikipedia)
- Bánk Bár-Kalán (Wikipedia)
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