Géza II of Hungary

Géza II, Croatian Gejza II (* 1130 in Poland, † 1162 ) from the House of Árpád dynasty was from 1141 King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, and Rama. He was the son and successor of Béla II and Ilona, daughter of the Serbian wholesale Župan Uroš I.

His way to the throne

On February 13, 1141 Béla II died, who previously had many potential claimants to the throne to be killed in order to secure his son's succession to the throne. Géza was crowned on 16 February 1141 Székesfehérvár. Since that time he was only eleven years old, his uncle reigned instead of him maternal Belus. He was appointed during Géza II 's reign to the Ban.

Struggles and government

Géza II had, as before his father, struggling with the demands of the throne of respected him as illegitimate Boris, a son of Koloman. Especially from 1146 this began again more vigorously to pursue his claim to the throne. In this phase there was a change in the system of alliances that had developed this succession dispute in the environment:

The Russian princes changed from Boris ' on Géza side while Boris, along with Poland and Bohemia, Austria and Bavaria and the German king Conrad III. was able to win for his side. Conrad was in turn allied with Byzantium, which moved to Géza to lead six expeditions against Byzantine allies among the Russian princes 1150-1156. In addition, the campaigns and the target had already been collected in the years Hungarian claims to the territory to underline Halych.

1147, the Crusaders through Hungary, Géza what used to close an alliance with Louis VII of France.

In Géza 's reign, the first major settlement wave is incident from an estimated two to three thousand immigrants from the Rhine and the Moselle region and from Wallonia. They settled in the eastern part of Hungary, in Transylvania / Transylvania down.

The reform of the Hungarian church under Bishop Luke of Gran began in the last years of Géza rule.

Marriage and issue

Géza married Euphrosina of Kiev. With her he had the following children:

  • Elisabeth ( * 1144/45; † after 1189 ), ∞ Duke Frederick of Bohemia
  • Stephen III. (* 1147, † 1172 ), King of Hungary
  • Béla III. (* 1148, † 1196), King of Hungary
  • Géza († 1209)
  • Adele ∞ Svatopluk of Bohemia, brother of Duke Frederick
  • Ilona ( Helen ) (* 1158, † 1199 ) ∞ Duke Leopold V of Austria
  • Margaret (* 1162, † 1208 ) ∞ 1 and ∞ 2 Isaac macro Dukas Andreas Prefect of Somogy

Sources

  • Ferenc Makk: Magyarország a 12 században Magyar História, Gondolat, Budapest, 1986 ISBN 963-281-660-9
  • Pallas ' online wholesale encyclopedia
  • Arpaden
  • King (Hungary )
  • Born in 1130
  • Died in 1162
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