Matthew III Csák

Matthew Csák (. Hungarian Čák (III ) Máté, Slovak Matus Čák III), also Matthew Csák of Trenčín ( ungar Trencséni Čák (III ) Máté, Slovak: Matus Čák III Trenčín. . ) (* 1260, † March 18, 1321 ) was a nobleman and oligarch in the Kingdom of Hungary, the de facto on the northwestern and northern parts of the former kingdom (now western, northern Slovakia and Northern Hungary) reigned.

Life

Matthew was a son of the Palatine Peter Čák from the family Čák. 1291 he participated in a campaign of the Hungarian King Andrew III. against Austria; the following year he conquered for the king, the Pressburg, which was dominated until then by Heinrich Kőszegi. As a reward, Matthew was appointed prefect of the county Pressburg. In 1296 he acquired the Red Stone Castle and the Castle of Trenčín from which its predicate " of Trenčín " derives. In the same year he was Palatine Hill, but lost this position in the following year because of disputes with King Andrew III.

After Andrew's death in 1301 and the extinction of the House of Árpád Matthew supported the claim of the Bohemian princes Wenzel, who was crowned in the same year as Ladislaus V. King of Hungary. Matthew, who was present at the coronation in Székesfehérvár, supported Ladislaus V, but after four years the Crown of St. Stephen to the Wittelsbach Otto III. lost. This declined Matthew Csák why he occupied several fortresses in the northern part of the Hungarian Kingdom. After he initially refused and the king confirmed in 1307 by an assembly of Charles I, he was persuaded by the papal legate Cardinal Gentili de Montefiori recognize the reign of Charles I.. Since he won the King Charles I did not want to submit, he organized in June 1311 a campaign to Buda, but was repulsed; then he was excommunicated by Cardinal Gentili.

During this time the area controlled by him included 14 counties and about 50 castles; according to its areas of expertise, he is in Slovakia as the " ruler of the Waag and the Tatra Mountains " ( pán Váhu a Tatier ) refers. Together with the powerful family of Aba in today's eastern Slovakia, he ruled over the whole of Slovakia; his troops supported the family Aba against King Charles I, but lost the battle of Rozhanovce on 15 June 1312 and the property of Aba family was finally occupied by royal troops. After this success, they attacked several times by Matthew Csák areas, but could only occupy marginal areas; its core area around the Trenčín castle remained untouched. After his death on March 18, 1321 was his "province" occupied within a few months of royal troops.

The (not uniformly defined ) Title mat country recalls its reign in today's western Slovakia.

It is not known who was married to Mrs. Matthew Csák. His son of the same Matthew Csák IV ( Matus Čák IV ) died in 1318 during the lifetime of his father. Meanwhile, widowed daughter Jutta came in 1321 with their two young sons to Silesia, where she married the Duke of Münster Berger Bolko II and died in 1342.