Ketel is a legendary Magyar tribal chieftain of perhaps

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origin, who lived at the end of the 9th century. He was the father of Alaptolma,Tamás Hölbling
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Ad Librum Kiadó, 2010, p. 260 and the first known ancestor of the Koppán clan. According to the medieval ''

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'', the leader of the Magyars,

Árpád Árpád (; 845 – 907) was the head of the confederation of the Magyar tribes at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries. He might have been either the sacred ruler or '' kende'' of the Hungarians, or their military leader or '' g ...

, donated a large estate to Ketel along the

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and

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(Vág) rivers where he settled with his people. Today, Ketel is honoured as the legendary founder of the city of

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with his son, Alaptolma.

References

Magyar tribal chieftains Gesta Hungarorum Koppán (genus) {{Hungary-bio-stub