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Stephen V King of Hungary and Croatia Arpádházi V
- Preferred Name: Stephen V King of Hungary and Croatia Arpádházi V[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Gender: M
- FSID: 93T9-NVY
- Death: 6 AUG 1272 in Csepel Island on the Danube River, Hungary at LATI: N7 LONG: E9.5
- Burial: AFT 6 AUG 1272 in Monastery of the Blessed Virgin on Rabbits' Island, Hungary at LATI: N7 LONG: E9.5
- LdsEndowment: 18 NOV 1980 with note: GEDCOM data
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Roi de Hongrie with note: from merge
- Christening: 1239
- LdsBaptism: 15 JUL 1980 with note: GEDCOM data
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: with note: Description: King of Hungary
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Duke of Slavonia, Duke of Transylvania with note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_V_of_Hungary
- Reino: BET 1270 AND 1272 with note: GEDCOM data
- Birth: 18 OCT 1239 in Budapest, Hungary at LATI: N7.5 LONG: E9.0655
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Stephen V was the eldest son of King Béla IV of Hungary and his queen, Maria Laskarina, a daughter of the Emperor Theodore I Lascaris of Nicaea.
After his father's death (3 May 1270), Stephen inherited the whole Kingdom of Hungary.
In about 1253, he married Elizabeth (1240 – after 1290), daughter of a chieftain of the Cuman tribes, they settled in Hungary and had the following children:
Elizabeth (1255–1313/1326), wife firstly of Záviš of Falkenštejn and secondly of King Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia
Catherine (1255/1257 – after 1314), wife of King Stefan Dragutin of Serbia
Maria (c. 1257 – 25 March 1325), wife of King Charles II of Naples
Anna (c. 1260 – c. 1281), wife of the Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos
King Ladislaus IV (August 1262 – 10 July 1290)
Andrew, Duke of Slavonia (1268–1278)
Étienne V de Hongrie (1239-1272)
Étienne V Árpád de Hongrie (1239-1272), fils de Béla IV de Hongrie et de la princesse grecque Marie Lascaris. Il fut roi de Hongrie de 1270 à 1272
Il est fait duc de Transylvanie en 1257. Après avoir
BIO
BIO: King of Hungary and Croatia, 1270.
** from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HUNGARY.htm#BelaIVB as of 6/12/2016
ISTVÁN, son of BÉLA IV King of Hungary & his wife Maria Laskarina of Nikaia (18 O
Stephen V (Hungarian: V. István, Croatian: Stjepan V., Slovak: Štefan V; before 18 October 1239-6 August 1272, Csepel Island)
Stephen V (Hungarian: V. István, Croatian: Stjepan V., Slovak: Štefan V; before 18 October 1239-6 August 1272, Csepel Island) was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1270 and 1272, and Duke of Styria
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=== My PAF Notes ===
from thepeerage.com, 2/2009:
Stephen V Arpád, King of Hungary1
M, #114142, b. December 1239, d. 1 August 1272
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Last Edited=29 May 2003
Stephen V Arpád, King of Hungary was born in December 1239. He was the son of Béla IV Arpád, King of Hungary and Maria Laskaris .1 He married Elisabeth of Kumania, daughter of Khan Kuthern of Kumania, circa 1255.1 He died on 1 August 1272 at age 32.
Stephen V Arpád, King of Hungary gained the title of King Stephen V of Hungary in 1270.1
Children of Stephen V Arpád, King of Hungary and Elisabeth of Kumania
Catherine Arpád b. c 12562
Maria von Ungarn + b. c 1257, d. 25 Mar 13232
Anne Arpád + b. c 1260, d. 12812
Elisabeth Arpád b. c 12612
Ladislas IV Arpád, King of Hungary b. c 1262, d. 12902
Andrew Arpád , Duke of Slavonia b. 1268, d. 12782
Citations
[S16 ] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 89. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.
[S16 ] Louda and MacLagan, Lines of Succession, table 90.
=== Stephen V (Hungarian: V. István, Croatia ===
Stephen V (Hungarian: V. István, Croatian: Stjepan VI., Slovak: Štefan V) (before 18 October 1239, Buda, Hungary – 6 August 1272, Csepel Island, Hungary), King of Hungary from 1270 to 1272.
He was the elder son of King Béla IV of Hungary and his queen, Maria Laskarina, a daughter of the Emperor Theodore I Lascaris of Nicaea.
In the second year following his birth, on 11 April 1241, the Mongolian troops defeated his father's army in the Battle of Mohi. After the disastrous battle, the royal family had to escape to Trau, a well-fortified city in Dalmatia. They could only return to Hungary after the unexpected withdrawal of the Mongol forces from Europe.
In 1246 Stephen was crowned as junior King and his father entrusted him with the government of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia, but the three provinces were de facto governed by the Ban Stephen Gut-Keled. Stephen's father, attempting to bind the powerful but pagan Cuman tribes more closely to the dynasty, arranged for Stephen's marriage, as a youth (about 1253), to Elizabeth, the daughter of a Cuman chieftain Koten.
In 1257, Stephen demanded that his father divide the kingdom between themselves and recruited an army against the senior king. Finally, in 1258, King Béla IV was obliged to cede to him the government of Transylvania.
Stephen took part in his father's military campaign against the Styrians, who had rebelled against the rule of the King of Hungary, in 1258. After the successful campaign, King Béla IV appointed him as Duke of Styria.
His government, however, was unpopular among his new subjects, who rebelled against him with the support of King Otakar II of Bohemia. Stephen and his father started an attack against Otakar II's lands, but their troops were defeated on 12 July 1260 in the Battle of Kroissenbrunn. Following the battle, the two Kings of Hungary ceded the Duchy of Styria to the King of Bohemia in the Peace of Pressburg.
Shortly after the peace, Stephen took over the government of Transylvania again. In 1261, Stephen and his father conducted a joint military campaign against Bulgaria, but their relationship became more and more tense, because the senior king had been favoring his younger son, Duke Béla of Slavonia and his daughter, Anna, the mother-in-law of the King of Bohemia.
Finally, with the mediation of Archbishops Fulop of Esztergom and Smaragd of Kalocsa, Stephen and his father signed an agreement in the summer of 1262 in Pozsony. Based on their agreement, Stephen took over the government of the parts of the kingdom East of the Danube. However, the two kings' reconciliation was only temporary, because their partisans were continuously inciting them against each other. In 1264, Stephen seized his mother's and sister's estates in his domains, but his father sent troops against him. Stephen's wife and son were captured by his father's partisans, and he had to retreat to the castle of Feketehalom. However, he managed to repel the siege and to commence a counter-attack.
In March 1265, he gained a strategic victory over his father's army in the Battle of Isaszeg. After his victory, he concluded a peace with King Béla IV. Based on the provisions of the peace, he received back the government of the Eastern parts of the kingdom. On 23 March 1266, father and son confirmed the peace in the Convent of the Blessed Virgin on the Nyulak szigete ('Rabbits' Island'). Shortly afterwards, Stephen V led his army to Bulgaria and forced Despot Jakob Svetoslav of Vidin to accept his overlordship.
In 1267, the "prelates and nobles" of the Kingdom of Hungary held a joint assembly in Esztergom, and their decisions were confirmed by both Stephen and his father.
To secure foreign support, he formed a double matrimonial alliance with the Angevins, chief partisans of the pope. The first of these was the marriage, in 1270, of his daughter Maria to the future King Charles II of Naples The second alliance was the marriage of Stephen's infant son, Ladislaus to Charles II's sister Elisabeth.
After his father's death (3 May 1270), Stephen inherited the whole Kingdom of Hungary, although the deceased senior king had entrusted his daughter, Anna and his followers to King Otakar II of Bohemia in his last will, and they had escaped to Prague before Stephen arrived to Esztergom.
Before his (second) coronation, Stephen granted the County of Esztergom to the Archbishop. In August 1270, Stephen had a meeting with his brother-in-law, Prince Boleslaw V of Poland in Krakow where they concluded an alliance against the King of Bohemia. Stephen also had a meeting with King Otakar II on 16 October on an island of the Danube near Pozsony where they concluded a truce for two years.
However, following smaller skirmishes on the border, the war broke out soon after and the King of Bohemia lead his armies against Hungary. Stephen was defeated in two smaller battles, but finally won a decisive victory on 21 May 1271 over the Czech and Austrian troops of Otakar II. In the subsequent peace the King of Bohemia handed back the fortresses occupied during his campaign, while Stephen renounced his claim to the Hungarian royal treasury that his sister, Anna had taken to Prague after their father's death.
In the summer of 1272, Stephen left for Dalmatia, where he wanted to meet King Charles I of Sicily, when he was informed that Joachim Gut-Keled had kidnapped his infant son, Ladislaus. Stephen was planning to raise an army to rescue his infant son when he died suddenly.
=== !EWH, Langer p263; King of Hungary 1270- ===
!EWH, Langer p263; King of Hungary 1270-1272; !Ancestral Roots, Seventh Edition, p98; Stephen V King of Hungary 1270-1272;
=== Weis. 103-30. Stephen V was King of Hu ===
Weis. 103-30. Stephen V was King of Hungary 1270-1272.
=== Kg. v. Ungarn u. Kroatien 1270 ===
Kg. v. Ungarn u. Kroatien 1270
=== !BIR-DEA: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen ===
!BIR-DEA: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull.
=== King of Hungary (1270-72), he was the so ===
King of Hungary (1270-72), he was the son of Bela IV and co-ruled with his father from 1254. After an invasion of Bulgaria in 1268, he took the title king of Bulgaria. He secured alliances by marrying his children into the ruling families of Naples, Byzantium, and other powers and in 1271 he repulsed an invasion by Ottocar. .
=== ML Call: Chts 11202,11319 M E Sorley: T ===
ML Call: Chts 11202,11319 M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P.26
=== ! Europasche Stammtafeln neue folge vol. ===
! Europasche Stammtafeln neue folge vol. 2 tafel 155;
=== As crowned Prince, Stephen assisted his ===
As crowned Prince, Stephen assisted his father in bringing thewar againstthe Mongol invaders to a Victorious conclusion. In1260 he was hurt inbattle against Ottakar II, King of Bohemia,in which the Hungarians weredefeated and forced to surrenderStyria (Now part of Austria), a regionthat had been pertlyunder his rule. Stephen thereafter compelled hisfather to cedea large part of Hungary to him for sole rule. StepheninvadedBulgaria in 1268 and assumed the title of King of Bulgaria.Uponthe death of his father , he susseeded to the Hungarian throne.In thefollowing year he repulsed an invasion by Ottakar.
=== Peerage notes ===
Stephen V Arpád, King of Hungary was born in December 1239. He was the son of Béla IV Arpád, King of Hungary and Maria Laskaris.1 He married Elisabeth of Kumania, daughter of Khan Kuthern of Kumania, circa 1255.1 He died on 1 August 1272 at age 32.
Stephen V Arpád, King of Hungary gained the title of King Stephen V of Hungary in 1270.1
Children of Stephen V Arpád, King of Hungary and Elisabeth of Kumania
* Catherine Arpád2 b. c 1256
* Maria von Ungarn+2 b. c 1257, d. 25 Mar 1323
* Anne Arpád+2 b. c 1260, d. 1281
* Elisabeth Arpád2 b. c 1261
* Ladislas IV Arpád, King of Hungary2 b. c 1262, d. 1290
* Andrew Arpád, Duke of Slavonia2 b. 1268, d. 1278
Citations
1. [S16] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 89. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.
2. [S16] Louda and MacLagan, Lines of Succession, table 90.
=== THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 ===
THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.5, 25, 32; SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.23, 26; BETHAMIS GENEALOGICAL TABLES (GS NUMBER Q929.2 B465G) TAB 353; TABLEAUX GENEALOGIQUES DES SOUVERAINES DE FRANCE ET SEU GRANDS FEUDATAIRES (GS NUMBER 944 D22G) TAB 51; TABLETTES CHRONOLOGIQUES (GS NUMBER 944 D22T) VOL 1 P.150, 185; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
=== Ref: Weis Ancestral Roots 103-30. King ===
Ref: Weis Ancestral Roots 103-30. King if Hungary 1270-1272.
=== !BIR-MAR-DEA: Bk, Medieval Knight by Ste ===
!BIR-MAR-DEA: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull.
=== Non-standard gedcom data: 1 MARR 2 SPO ===
Non-standard gedcom data: 1 MARR 2 SPOU @I240@
=== !SOURCE: "Royal Ancestors," PC #319. ===
!SOURCE: "Royal Ancestors," PC #319.
=== Stephen V was succeeded by his son, Ladi ===
Stephen V was succeeded by his son, Ladislaus IV "the Cumanian" (1272-90), "a wild youth who cared only for his Cumanian companions, refused to beget lawful issue and so favoured his pagan friends that Pope Nicholas IV preached a crusade against him. He died without issue, leaving Hungary in turmoil..." - Encycl. Brit., `56, 11:902 (also see 21:385).
=== In 1260 Stephen was defeated in a battle ===
In 1260 Stephen was defeated in a battle agains Ottokar II, King of Bohemia, and he was forced to surrender Styria (now part of Austria), a region that had been partly under his rule. He convinced his father to cede part of Hungary to him for his sole rule. In 1268, he invaded Bulgaria and assumed the title of King of Bulgaria. On the death of his father in 1270, he became King of Hungary. In 1271, he repulsed an invasion by Ottokar.
=== Stephen V (b. 1239--d. Aug. 6, 1272), ki ===
Stephen V (b. 1239--d. Aug. 6, 1272), king of Hungary (1270-72), the eldest son of Béla IV.
In 1262, as crown prince, he compelled his father, whom he had assisted in the Bohemian war, to surrender 29 counties to him, virtmaclly dividing Hungary into two kingdoms; while afterward he seized the southern banate of Macso, which led to a fresh war between father and son in which the latter triumphed. In 1268 he invaded Bulgaria and assumed the title of king of Bulgaria.
During his father's lifetime Stephen had a double matrimonial alliance with the Neapolitan princes of the House of Anjou, the chief partisans of the pope. He certainly needed exterior support; for on his accession to the Hungarian throne he encountered almost universal hostility because of his alleged pagan leanings, due largely to the influence of his Cuman wife Elizabeth, to whom his father had married him for political reasons in 1255. The malcontents combined with Otakar II of Bohemia and invaded western Hungary; but Stephen routed Otakar at Mosony (1271) and was preparing to recover his infant son Ladislas (the future Ladislas IV), whom the rebels had kidnapped, when he died suddenly. [Encyclopaedia Britannica CD '97]
=== King of Hungary 1270-1272, ===
King of Hungary 1270-1272,
Preferred Parents:
Father: IV.Béla Árpád-házi Magyar király, b. 29 NOV 1206 in Esztergom, Komárom-Esztergom, Hungary d. 3 MAY 1270 in Rabbits' Island (now Margaret Island, Budapest)
Mother: Maria Laskarisz-házi Nicaeai hercegnő magyar királyné, b. 1207 in Nicaea, Bursa, Turkey d. 24 JUN 1270 in Esztergom, Komarom-Esztergom, Hungary
Family 1: Elizabeth the Cuman Queen consort of Hungary, b. 1240 in Esztergom, Komárom-Esztergom, Hungary d. 1290 in Budapest, Belváros-Lipótváros, Budapest, Hungary
- m. 1256 in Francia
- m. 1253 in Hungary
- Katalin Árpád-házi, b. ABT 1256 in Budapest, Hungary d. 1317 in Serbia
- Maria Arpadhazi of Hungary Queen of Naples, b. 1257 in Csepel Island, Budapest, Hungary d. 25 MAR 1323 in Naples, Città Metropolitana di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Sources:
- Title: Árpád dynasty
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_dynasty;
Page: Shows family tree
- Title: Biografia
Author: wikipedia
Publication: Name: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esteban_V_de_Hungr%C3%ADa;
- Title: Stephen V of Hungary
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_V_of_Hungary;
Page: Shows father, mother, spouse, dynasty and issue
- Title: PHILIPPA de Dreux ([1192]-17 Mar 1242)
Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerold,_Prefect_of_Bavaria
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerold,_Prefect_of_Bavaria;
Note: Inscription on Tome
Page: Balkans & Eastern Europe - Hungary, Kings, p. 97: ISTVÁN, son of BÉLA IV King of Hungary & his wife Maria Laskarina of Nikaia (18 Oct 1239-1 Aug 1272, Csepel Island, Dominican Monastery). The Chronicon Varadiense names "dux Stephanus postea rex, secundus…dux Bela" as the two sons of "rex Bela quartus"[981]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines records the birth "in festo beati Luce 1239" of "regi Hungarie filius masculus…Stephanum"[982]. The Altahenses Annales name "Stephanum filium [Belæ regis Ungarie]" when recording his succession to his father[983]. His father appointed him Prince of Transylvania in 1257. He led the Hungarian troops which invaded Bulgaria in 1261, restoring his brother-in-law Rostislav, who was one of the claimants to the Bulgarian throne after Tsar Koloman II was deposed in 1258, at Vidin. Duke of Slavonia, Dalmatia and Croatia, his father transferred these territories to his younger brother Béla in 1262, whereupon István revolted, although peace was concluded 5 Dec 1262 under which the country was divided and István retained the territory north of the Danube along the border with Bulgaria with the titles "rex iunior" and "dominus Cumanorum". Civil war broke out again in 1264, peace once more being confirmed in István's favour in 1266[984]. He succeeded his father in 1270 as ISTVÁN V King of Hungary. The Altahenses Annales record the death "1272 circa Kal Aug" of "Stephanus rex Ungarie"[985]. The Chronicon Dubnicense records the death "in magna insula" of "Stephanus" and his burial "in ecclesia beate Virginis in insula Budensi in loco Beginarum"[986]. The Gesta Hungarorum records that King István was buried "in insula…Beatæ Virginis"[987]. m (1253) --- of the Kumans, daughter of --- Khan of the Kumans (1240-after 1290). This marriage was agreed as part of King Béla's arrangements for settling the Kumans on empty land on either side of the River Tisza[988]. She was baptised with the name ERSZÉBET. Regent for her son King László IV in 1272, she was hated by the Hungarians[989].
- Title: Stephen V of Hungary, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGJ-2HLV : 16 December 2021), Stephen V of Hungary, ; Burial, Budapest, Belváros-Lipótváros, Budapest, Hungary, Margit Island; citing record ID 122898326, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGJ-2HLV;
Page: Find A Grave Index Stephen V of Hungary
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