Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians
Monarch
0945 – 0997
Who was Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians?
Géza, also Gejza, was Grand Prince of the Hungarians from the early 970s. He was the son of Grand Prince Taksony and his Oriental—Khazar, Pecheneg or Volga Bulgarian—wife. He married Sarolt, a daughter of an Orthodox Hungarian chieftain.
After ascending the throne, Géza made peace with the Holy Roman Empire. Within Hungary, he consolidated his authority with extreme cruelty, according to the unanimous narration of nearly contemporaneous sources. He was the first Hungarian monarch to support Christian missionaries from Western Europe. Although he was baptised, his Christian faith remained shallow and continued to perform acts of pagan worship. He was succeeded by his son, Stephen who was crowned the first King of Hungary in 1000 or 1001.
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- Born
- 0945
- Also known as
- Geza of Hungary
- Geza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians
- Géza of Hungary
- Parents
- Spouses
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Hungarian people
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Died
- Feb 1, 0997
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on July 23, 2013
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