General Notes

Ladislas I's successor was his nephew, Koloman -who acquired "Bookish=man Beauclerc) -whose first wife was Buzilla, a Sicilian Norman princ=emia, the daughter of Vladimir Monomakh, the Suzdal prince; he manage=d with varying success. After the athletic and chivalrous (Saint) Lad=lled elegantissimus rex, this physically stunted man, who according t=velled, hirsute, half-blind, hunchbacked and lame," and if only half=20=oo much -at the same time, buried himself in codices like a bookworm,=y incidentally, a consecrated bishop who could not be crowned until h=n from the Church -this man had to march constantly at the head of hi=
In the very first year of Koloman's reign, in 1096, the challenges of=eading east on their European routes reached Hungary one after the ot=e good with the forces led by the French knight Walter the Penniless=20=y of Bouillon, the prince of Lorraine -it is true that, enlightened b=oloman and his troops accompanied the latter until he left Hungarian=20=ould not prevent the army of Peter the Hermit of Amiens from assaulti=tle at Zimony (Zemun); he had to defeat the armies of the French Folk=t Gottschalk, and he did not permit the armies of William the Carpent=ier, viscount of Melun, and Count Emich of Leiningen to cross the Hun=
In addition, Koloman had a substantial number of domestic difficultie=, Prince =E2Almos, rose against him. At the first opportunity, their=20=ny scene" had taken place. At this time not a single one of the chief=ter the war on either side; so the two brothers made peace with each=20=lmos invaded Hungary time and again with foreign supporters.=20
When Koloman felt his death approaching and the enthronement of his t=e, he hunted down and blinded =E2Almos, and =E2Almos's son, B=E2ela.=20=n the manner of Shakespeare, =E2Almos escaped to Byzantium under the=20=131), while his son hid in the monastery at P=E2ecsv=E2arad. However,=g the illness of the childless Stephen II, had already chosen three k=es, the king swept down bloodily on the insurgents. Meanwhile, he fou=rince B=E2ela was hiding -=E2Almos had died in the meantime- and had=20=e him in marriage, and named him heir to the throne. He was to become=I, his fate showing that gouging out someone's eyes would no longer m=e crown.