The Tomaj kindred held land in Zala west of Tapolca, at Lesencetomaj, until 1209, when Tiba of the Tomaj was accused of murdering the palatine Csépán of the Győr kindred and his lands were confiscated and given to Pat.
On 1 January 1200 the holding is theirs, but who heads the kindred and which side it took in 1199 are not recorded in the sources checked.
Who he is
- Name
- Not pinned for 1200 (Tiba of the Tomaj is attested in 1209)
- Title
- Kindred (nemzetség) of Tomaj
- Family
- An old kindred; its Zala lands included Lesencetomaj.
- Confidence
- low
English Wikipedia, Pat Győr: Tiba Tomaj's confiscated lands in Zala, including Lesencetomaj, given to Pat shortly after 1209.
Overlord
King Emeric
What it holds
- Lesencetomaj and other Zala lands (not pinned)
How it was acquired
Ancestral.
Allies and rivals
Not pinned for 1200; the later feud with the Győr kindred (1209) is beyond the year.
How things stand that morning
Holding its Zala land; side not pinned.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Known only from the 1209 confiscation.
On the map: One estate 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
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.