Csanád

This article is about the 11th century Hungarian nobleman. For other uses, see Csanád (disambiguation).

Csanád,[1][2] also Chanadinus,[3] or Cenad,[2] was the first head (comes) of Csanád County in the Kingdom of Hungary in the first decades of the 11th century.[4]

Csanád defeated and killed Ajtony who had ruled over the region now known as Banat (in Romania and Serbia).[3] Csanád County and its capital (Cenad, in Hungarian Csanád) were named after him.[4]

Life

The anonymous author of the 13th-century Gesta Ungarorum states that Csanád was the nephew of King Stephen I of Hungary (1000/1001-1038)[2] (nepos regis) and his father's name was Doboka.[4] According to the Long Life of St Gerard, an early 14th-century compilation of different sources,[3] Csanád was a pagan in the service of Ahtum.[2]

Ahtum controlled traffic along the river and taxed transport of salts from Transylvania to the heartland of Pannonia.[3] It was in relation to salt that Ahtum found himself in conflict with Stephen, the newly proclaimed king of Hungary.[3]

At urbs Morisena, which was given the name of Csanád, a Roman Catholic bishopric was immediately founded, and Gerard, who had hitherto lived as a hermit in the forest of the Bakony, was invited to be its first bishop.[2] By that time Csanád had been baptized and become the head of the royal county (comitatus) organized around the fortress at Cenad.[4]

Csanád was the ancestor of the genus Chanad/Sunad (Csanád kindred),[5] the site of whose main holdings in Arad, Csanád, Krassó and Temes counties demonstrated a quite remarkable continuity from the 11th to 14th centuries.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Curta, Florin. Transylvania around A.D. 1000. p. 142.
  2. ^ a b c d e Engel, Pál. The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526. pp. 41–42.
  3. ^ a b c d e Curta, Florin (2006). Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250. pp. 249–250.
  4. ^ a b c d Kristó, Gyula (General Editor). Korai magyar történeti lexikon (9-14. század). {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  5. ^ a b Rady, Martyn. Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungary. p. 45.

Sources

  • Curta, Florin: Transylvania around A.D. 1000; in: Urbańczyk, Przemysław (Editor): Europe around the year 1000; Wydawn. DiG, 2001; ISBN 978-83-7181-211-8
  • Curta, Florin: Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages - 500-1250; Cambridge University Press, 2006, Cambridge; ISBN 978-0-521-89452-4
  • Engel, Pál: The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526; I. B. Tauris, 2001, London&New York; ISBN 1-85043-977-X
  • Georgescu, Vlad (Author) – Calinescu, Matei (Editor) – Bley-Vroman, Alexandra (Translator): The Romanians – A History; Ohio State University Press, 1991, Columbus; ISBN 0-8142-0511-9
  • Kristó, Gyula (General Editor) - Engel, Pál - Makk, Ferenc (Editors): Korai Magyar történeti lexikon (9-14. század) /Encyclopedia of the Early Hungarian History (9th-14th centuries)/; Akadémiai Kiadó, 1994, Budapest; ISBN 963-05-6722-9 (the entry “Csanád” was written by László Szegfű).
  • Rady, Martyn: Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungary; Palgrave (in association with School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London), 2000, New York; ISBN 0-333-80085-0


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