György Lépes (1375 – 18 March 1442, Marosszentimre) was a Transylvanian Catholic Bishop.

Life

Lépes was born in what is now

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to a noble family. He was the provost of Transylvania between 1403 and 1417, and was bishop from 1427 to 1442. In 1436, he invited

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as an inquisitor against the spread of the

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. In 1437, the

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broke out because of Lépes' regulations that ordered the serfs to pay the tithe in the new currency of golden coins 3 years after the peasants had silver coins (worth four times more), and also wanted to order the Orthodox Romanians to pay it. The 1438 uprising was brutally crushed by the nobles, and the three estate nations (Hungarian, Székely, and

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) concluded with the Union of Kápolna. In 1442, Lépes, while leading the fighting against the Turks at the

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, was killed.

References

* ''Magyar életrajzi lexikon'
II. (L–Z).
Főszerk. Kenyeres Ágnes. Budapest: Akadémiai. 1969.

Főszerk. Diós István; szerk. Viczián János. Budapest: Szent István Társulat. 2002. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lepes, Gyorgy 1375 births 1442 deaths 15th-century Roman Catholic bishops People from Transylvania

Life

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