Glad

Who is Glad?

Glad was a Bulgarian duke who, according to the 13th-century chronicle Gesta Hungarorum, ruled in the territory of modern Banat at the time of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin around 896. His story was recorded exclusively by the Gesta Ungarorum, therefore, according to some historians, he was rather a fictitious person and his name was constructed by Anonymous from a place-name in the area.

The Gesta presents Ahtum – who, according to the so-called Long Life of St Gerard, ruled the Banat at the beginning of the 11th century – as a descendant from Glad’s lineage.