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Birth:          Dec 1239 of Budapest, Hungary
Death:          6 Aug 1272 Budapest, Hungary

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_V_of_Hungary
Stephen V (Hungarian: V. István, Croatian: Stjepan V., Slovak: Štefan V; before 18 
October 1239 – 6 August 1272, Csepel Island) was King of Hungary and Croatia 
between 1270 and 1272, and Duke of Styria from 1258 to 1260. He was the oldest 
son of King Béla IV and Maria Laskarina. King Béla had his son crowned king at the 
age of six and appointed him Duke of Slavonia. Still a child, Stephen married 
Elizabeth, a daughter of a chieftain of the Cumans whom his father settled in the Great 
Hungarian Plain.

King Béla appointed Stephen Duke of Transylvania in 1257 and Duke of Styria in 
1258. The local noblemen in Styria, which had been annexed four years before, 
opposed his rule. Assisted by King Ottokar II of Bohemia, they rebelled and expelled 
Stephen's troops from most parts of Styria. After Ottokar II routed the united army of 
Stephen and his father in the Battle of Kressenbrunn on 12 July 1260, Stephen left 
Styria and returned to Transylvania.

Stephen forced his father to cede all the lands of the Kingdom of Hungary to the east 
of the Danube to him and adopted the title of junior king in 1262. In two years, a civil 
war broke out between father and son, because Stephen accused Béla of planning to 
disinherit him. They concluded a peace treaty in 1266, but confidence was never 
restored between them. Stephen succeeded his father, who died on 3 May 1270, 
without difficulties, but his sister Anna and his father's closest advisors fled to the 
Kingdom of Bohemia. Ottokar II invaded Hungary in the spring of 1271, but Stephen 
routed him. In next summer, a rebellious lord captured and imprisoned Stephen's son, 
Ladislaus. Shortly thereafter, Stephen unexpectedly fell ill and died.
Childhood (1239–1245)[edit]

Stephen was the eighth child and first son of King Béla IV of Hungary and his wife, 
Maria, a daughter of Theodore I Lascaris, Emperor of Nicaea.[1] He was born in 
1239.[2] Archbishop Robert of Esztergom baptised him on 18 October.[3] The child, 
heir apparent from birth, was named after Saint Stephen, the first King of Hungary.[4]

Béla and his family, including Stephen, fled to Zagreb after the Mongols had 
annihilated the royal army in the Battle of Mohi on 11 April 1241.[5] The Mongols 
crossed the frozen Danube in February 1242 and the royal family ran off as far as the 
well-fortified Dalmatian town of Trogir.[4][6] The King and his family returned from 
Dalmatia after the Mongols unexpectedly withdrew from Hungary in March.[7]

Junior king[edit]

Duke of Slavonia (1245–1257)[edit]

Apparently, in the previous year, Béla had his son crowned as junior king and 
endowed with the lands between the river Dráva and the Adriatic Sea, according to 
historians Gyula Kristó and Ferenc Makk.[4][8] The seven-year-old Stephen's 
provinces—Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia—were administered by royal governors, 
known as bans.[4][9]

In a letter addressed to Pope Innocent IV in the late 1240s, Béla IV wrote that "[o]n 
behalf of Christendom we had our son marry a Cuman girl".[10] The bride was 
Elizabeth, the daughter of a leader of the Cumans whom Béla had invited to settle in 
the plains along the river Tisza.[11][12] Elizabeth had been baptized, but ten Cuman 
chieftains present at the ceremony nevertheless took their customary oath upon a dog 
cut into two by a sword.[13]
Family[edit]

Stephen's wife, Elizabeth was born around 1239, according to historian Gyula Kristó.
[59] A charter of her father-in-law, Béla IV, refers to one Seyhan, a Cuman chieftain as 
his kinsman, implying that Seyhan was Elizabeth's father.[59][60] Stephen's first child 
by Elizabeth, Catherine was born around 1256.[61] She was given in marriage to 
Stephen Dragutin, the elder son and heir of King Stephen Uroš I of Serbia, in about 
1268.[62] Her sister, Mary was born around 1257 and married the future Charles II of 
Naples in 1270.[63] Their grandson, Charles became King of Hungary in the first 
decade of the 14th century.[63]

According to historian Gyula Kristó, Stephen's third (unnamed) daughter was the wife 
of Despot Jacob Svetoslav.[64] Stephen's third (or fourth) daughter, Elizabeth, who 
was born in about 1260, became a Dominican nun in the Monastery of the Blessed 
Virgin on Rabbits' Island.[63] She was appointed prioress in 1277, but her brother, 
Ladislaus, kidnapped and married her to a Czech baron, Zavis of Falkenstein, in 
1288.[65][66] Stephen's youngest daughter, Anna, was born in about 1260.[64] She 
married Andronikos Palaiologos, son and heir of the Byzantine Emperor, Michael VIII.
[64]

Stephen's first son Ladislaus was born in 1262.[67] He succeeded his father in 1272.
[68] Stephen's youngest child, Andrew, was born in 1268 and died at the age of 10.
[68][69]

Parents
____ Bela IV (Nov 1206 - 3 May 1270)
LASKARINA Maria (ABT 1206 - 1270)

Siblings
____ Stephen (Istvan) V (Dec 1239 - 6 Aug 1272)

Marriage To OF BOSNIA Elizabeth (Erzsebet) (1239 - AFT 1290)
    m. 1253 

Notes

Parents
____ Kuthen (ABT 1210 - ABT 1241)
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Children by OF BOSNIA Elizabeth (Erzsebet) 1239 - AFT 1290
OF HUNGARY Maria (ABT 1257 - 25 Mar 1323)

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