- Taksony of Hungary
Taksony (? – before 972),
Grand Prince of the Magyars (c. 955 - before 972).Taksony was the son of Zoltán (Zaltas), the fourth son of
Árpád , the second Grand Prince of the Magyars. TheGesta Hungarorum mentions that his mother was a daughter of Menmarót, the local military leader in the region of Bihar (Romanian: "Biharea") at the time of the Hungarian settlement occupation "(Honfoglalás)". Taksony married a Pecheneg or Bulgar woman [The "Gesta Hungarorum" mentions that he married a woman "of the territories of theCumans ", but theCumans had not crossed theVolga River before the 11th century.] .In 947, Taksony lead a raid to Italy till
Apulia , and KingBerengar II of Italy had to buy the peace by paying a large amount of money to him and his followers. He might have taken part in theBattle of Lechfeld (Hungarian: "augsburgi csata") where King Otto I ofGermany won a decisive victory over theMagyars . After the defeat theMagyars stopped their raids ("kalandozások") inWestern Europe , but they began to pillage theByzantine Empire .Taksony became the Grand Prince of the Magyars just or shortly after the Battle of Lechfeld, but his authority must have been only nominal over some regions of the Carpathian Basin inhabited by the Magyars. During his rule a large number of
Pechenegs andKhalyzians immigrated to the territory of the future Hungary.In 963,
Pope John XII ordained the first Roman Catholic missionary bishop, Zacheus for the Magyars [Liutprand of Cremona : "Liber de rebus gestis Ottonis magni imperatoris".] , but he probably never visited them.Taksony arranged the marriage of his son
Géza of Hungary toSarolt , the daughter ofGyula ofTransylvania .Marriage and children
"# c. 945:" "Unnamed" "of the territories of the
Cumans "
*Géza of Hungary ,Grand Prince of the Magyars (c. 945 – 997)
* Michael (Mihály), Duke between Morava andEsztergom (– ca 978 or bef. 997). Married Adelajda of Poland (– aft. 997), daughter or sister ofMieszko I of Poland Sources
* Kristó Gyula - Makk Ferenc: "Az Árpád-ház uralkodói" (IPC Könyvek, 1996)
* "Korai Magyar Történeti Lexikon (9-14. század)", főszerkesztő: Kristó Gyula, szerkesztők: Engel Pál és Makk Ferenc (Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1994)References
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