Connected Bloodlines

Gyula, Prince of Transylvania

Male


Personal Information    |    All    |    PDF

  • Name Gyula  
    Suffix Prince of Transylvania 
    Gender Male 
    Notes 
    • “GYULA . The Gestis Hungarorum Liber names "Gyyla et Zombor" as sons of "Horca". The Gesta Hungarorum names "Iula" as commander of the third of the seven armies of "Hunni sive Hungari" which entered Pannonia but that he settled "in partibus Erdevelu [Transylvania]", although according to the editors of the edition "Gyula" was the title of a dignitary, the warlord, in the tribal age before Árpád. The Gestis Hungarorum Liber records that "Gelou quidam Blacus" was lord of "terra Ultrasasiluana". A Magyar leader in Transylvanian Fehérvár in the Carpathians, he visited the court of Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus [948] and was baptised there as "STEPHANOS". On his return, he was accompanied by the monk Hierotheos, whom Patriarch Theophylact has ordained "Bishop of Turkia". He founded the monastery of Veszprém in western Hungary. m ---. The name of Gyula's wife is not known. Gyula & his wife had two children:
      (a) CAROLDU . The Gestis Hungarorum Liber names "una…Caroldu et altera Saroltu" as the two daughters of "Geula".
      (b) SAROLT ([954]-after 988). The Gestis Hungarorum Liber names "una…Caroldu et altera Saroltu" as the two daughters of "Geula", specifying that the Sarolt was mother of "sancti regis Stephani". Thietmar names "Beleknegini, the name means beauautiful lady in Slavonic" as wife of "Deuvix", commenting that she "drank immoderately and rode a horse like a warrior", adding that "once in a fit of anger she killed a man". She had been baptised into the Orthodox faith by Bishop Hierotheos aat her father's court. Her marriage may have been arranged by her father to build an alliance against the more powerful Bulgars. m ([967], repudiated shortly after 975) as his first wife GÉZA Prince of Hungary, son of TAKSONY Prince of Hungary & his wife --- [Kuman princess] ([940/45]-1 Feb 997).”«s87»
    Person ID I13909  Lowell&Block

    Father Horca 
    Family ID F4788  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Children 
     1. Caroldu
    Family ID F4783  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart