Mark (I) from the kindred Csák (; d. after 1259)
[Zsoldos 2011, p. 327.] was a Hungarian noble, who served as
ispán
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(''comes'') of
Hont County
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Today, in Slovakia Hont is the i ...
in 1247.
[Zsoldos 2011, p. 159.]
He was born into the Trencsén branch of the
''gens'' Csák as the eldest son of
Matthew I and Margaret from an unidentified family.
[Kristó 1986, p. 31.] According to a royal charter in 1259, Mark owned
Lednic,
Upper Hungary
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(today: ''Lednica, Slovakia''), where he built a castle. The name of the village was first mentioned here as "''Lednyche''". The charter refers to him as ''comes Mark de Lednyche''. Mark had two sons (Peter II and
Stephen II) and two daughters; one of them was Maria, the wife of
Ivánka Hont-Pázmány, then Zoeardus Zoárd, while the other unidentified daughter married
James Bána then
Lőrinte II Lőrinte.
[Engel: ''Genealógia'' (Genus Csák 6., Trencsén branch 1.)]
Mark's descendants remained landowners near the ancient estate of the genus,
Csákvár, while his brothers,
Stephen I Stephen I may refer to:
*Pope Stephen I, Bishop of Rome from 254 to 257
*Stephen I of Antioch, Patriarch of Antioch from 342 to 344
*Stephen I of Iberia (died 627), of the Guaramid Dynasty, presiding prince of Iberia from c. 590 to 627
*Ecumenical ...
,
Matthew II and
Peter I, as well as the latter's sons,
Matthew III and Csák acquired possessions in the north-western
counties
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of the
Kingdom of Hungary
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, where later Matthew III, as the most powerful oligarch, ruled ''
de facto'' independently of the king and usurped
royal prerogative
The royal prerogative is a body of customary authority, Privilege (law), privilege, and immunity recognised in common law (and sometimes in Civil law (legal system), civil law jurisdictions possessing a monarchy) as belonging to the monarch, so ...
s on his realm.
[Kristó 1986, p. 50.]
References
Sources
* Kristó, Gyula (1986). ''Csák Máté'' ("Matthew Csák"). Magyar História, Gondolat. Budapest.
* Zsoldos, Attila (2011). ''Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1000–1301'' ("Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1000–1301"). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. Budapest.
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13th-century Hungarian nobility