The coat-of-arms of the Hungarian Gutkeled clan Gutkeled (spelling variants: Gut-Keled, Guthkeled, Guth-Keled) was the name of a ''gens'' (

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for "clan"; ''nemzetség'' in Hungarian) in the

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, to which a number of Hungarian noble families belong.

History

The primary source of their origins is the

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of Simon of Kéza, in which the author writes: :''Sed postea, tempore Petri regis Kelad et Gut intrant tres frateres ex gente Svevorum procreati. De castello Stof sunt nativi.'' :''″But afterwards, during the reign of king Peter, Kelad and Gut three brothers of

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n descent immigrated. They were born at the castle of Stof.″'' The castle "Stof" is assumed to be a corruption of ''Stauf'', meaning either castle Stauf in

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or the

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castle in

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. The king mentioned is Péter Orseolo, placing the arrival of the Gutkeleds to Hungary sometime around the 1040s.Simon Kezai, Lázló Veszprémy, Frank Schaer (ed.), ''Gesta Hungarorum: The Deeds of the Hungarians'' (Central European Medieval Texts), Central European University Press 1999.

Noble families

Some of the Hungarian noble families descending from the Gutkeleds are: * Adonyi * Apagyi * Atyai * Báthory * Benyó * Daróczi *

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* Dobi * Gacsályi * Guthi * Kenézy * Kun * Országs ( Horsák ) * Pelbárthidi * Rozsályi * Szemesi * Maróthy * Várdai

Notable members

Apaj Gutkeled Apaj (I) from the kindred Gutkeled ( hu, Gutkeled nembeli (I.) Apaj; died after 1239) was a Hungarian baron in the first third of the 13th century, who served as Ban of Slavonia from 1237 to 1239, during the reign of Béla IV of Hungary. Family Ap ...

Ban of Slavonia Ban of Slavonia ( hr, Slavonski ban; hu, szlavón bán; la, Sclavoniæ banus) or the Ban of "Whole Slavonia" ( hr, ban cijele Slavonije; hu, egész Szlavónia bánja; la, totius Sclavoniæ banus) was the title of the governor of a territo ...

(1237–1239) *

Nicholas I Gutkeled Nicholas (I) from the kindred Gutkeled ( hu, Gutkeled nembeli (I.) Miklós; died 11 April 1241) was a Hungarian baron in the first third of the 13th century, who served as Ban of Slavonia from 1239 or 1240 to 1241, during the reign of Béla IV of H ...

, Ban of Slavonia (1240–1241), killed in the

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* Stephen I Gutkeled, Ban of Slavonia (1248–1259) *

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, Ban of Slavonia (1278–1279) * Joachim Gutkeled, Ban of Slavonia (died in April 1277)

Notes

External links

* One of the Guthkele
coat-of-arms
similar devices were later used by most of the families.

References

* {{Noble kindreds in the Kingdom of Hungary Gutkeled clan Hungarian people of German descent