Kaplon (or ''Cupan'') was a Hungarian tribal chieftain, the second son of Kond, who was one of the

seven chieftains of the Magyars The Seven chieftains of the Magyars (or Hungarians) were the leaders of the seven tribes of the Hungarians at the time of their arrival in the Carpathian Basin in AD 895. Constantine VII, emperor of the Byzantine Empire names the seven tribes ...

according to Anonymus, author of the ''

Gesta Hungarorum ''Gesta Hungarorum'', or ''The Deeds of the Hungarians'', is the earliest book about Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian history which has survived for posterity. Its genre is not chronicle, but ''gesta'', meaning "deeds" or "acts", which is a medie ...

''. It is possible that

Kurszán Kurszán or Kusál (died 904), was a Hungarian (Magyar) chieftain at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries, who had a crucial role in the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin. He was '' kende'' of the Magyars in the dual leadership with Á ...

, who was killed in 904, was his elder brother. After the

Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin The Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin, also known as the Hungarian conquest or the Hungarian land-taking (), was a series of historical events ending with the settlement of the Hungarians in Central Europe in the late 9th and early 10t ...

(895 or 896–''c.'' 907), the brothers Kücsid and Kaplon settled in the Nyírség, northeastern part of the

Great Hungarian Plain The Great Hungarian Plain (also known as Alföld or Great Alföld, or ) is a plain occupying the majority of the modern territory of Hungary. It is the largest part of the wider Pannonian Plain (however, the Great Hungarian Plain was not par ...

and founded a monastery in Kaplony (today: ''Căpleni, Romania''), near the Ecsed Marsh. Chieftain Kaplon was the ancestor of the ''gens'' (or clan) Kaplon. The

Károlyi The House of Károlyi is the name of an old and prominent Hungarian nobility, Hungarian noble family, whose members held the title of Count in Kingdom of Hungary, Hungary, awarded to them on 5 April 1712 by Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor. They clai ...

(which still exists), Bagossy, Csomaközy, Vadai and Vetési families were also originate from that genus.

Sources

* János Karácsonyi: ''A magyar nemzetségek a XIV. század közepéig.'' Budapest: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia. 1900–1901. * Gyula Kristó (editor): Korai Magyar Történeti Lexikon - 9-14. század ''(Encyclopedia of the Early Hungarian History - 9-14th centuries)''; Akadémiai Kiadó, 1994, Budapest; . {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaplon (chieftain) Magyar tribal chieftains Kaplon (genus) 9th-century births 9th-century Hungarian people