King Stephen Arpad of Hungary V 
Stephen was born in 1240.1 Stephen's father was King Bela Arpad of Hungary IV and his mother was Maria Laskaris. His paternal grandparents were King Andrew Arpad of Hungary II and Countess of Andechs Gertrude of Meran; his maternal grandparents were Emperor of Nicea Theodore Laskaris I and Princess Anna Angelos. He had five sisters named Anna, Ilona, Margaret, Elizabeth and Kunegunda. He died at the age of 32 on August 1st, 1272.1 General Notes
King Stephen V of Hungary (Hungarian: V. István,Slovak: Štefan V)(1239 or 1240 - August 6 1272), was the eldest son of Bela IV of Hungary, whom he succeeded in 1270.
As crown prince he had exhibited considerable ability, but also a disquieting restlessness and violence. In 1262 Stephen convinced his father Bela to give him twenty-nine counties as a reward of assistance in the war against Bohemia; hence Hungary was virtually divided into two kingdoms. He subsequently seized the southern banate of Macso and defeated his father in the ensuing civil war. In 1268 he undertook an expedition against the Bulgarians, penetrating as far as Tirnova and styling himself as king of Bulgaria.
Stephen's father, attempting to bind the powerful but pagan Cumans tribe more closely to the dynasty, arranged for Stephen's marriage, as a youth (about 1255), to Elizabeth, the daughter of the Cuman chieftain (named Koteny or Kuthens). Though Elizabeth, in preparation for the marriage, had been baptized and remained a Christian, western Europe almost universally considered Stephen as a semi-pagan. This hostility was felt as Stephen declared himself that everyone was his enemy for his accession to the Hungarian throne.
To secure foreign support, he formed a double matrimonial alliance with the Angevins, chief partisans of the pope. The first of these was the marriage in 1270 of his daughter Maria to Charles II of Naples (they became grandparents of Charles I of Hungary). The second alliance was the marriage of Stephen's infant son Ladislaus to Charles II's sister Elisabeth.
Byzantine Emperor Andronicus II married Anna, another of Stephen's daughters. Serbian king Stefan Dragutin married Katerina, yet another of Stephan's daughters.
Adversaries of Stephen, especially Ottokar II of Bohemia, believed that Stephen was too great a friend of the mighty Cumans (who could field 16,000 men) to be a true Catholic. Ottakar endeavoured with the aid of the Hungarian malcontents to conquer the western provinces of Hungary but they were utterly routed by Stephen in 1271 near Mosony. Ottakar relinquished all his conquests the same year in the peace of Pressburg.
Stephen died suddenly as he was raising an army to rescue his kidnapped infant son Ladislaus from his rebellious vassals.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1108 d.13 Feb 1141
- b.1130 in Tolna, Hungary d.31 May 1161
- b.1115 in Beograd, Serbia d.1157
- b.1148 in Esztergom, Komaron-Esztergom, Hungary d.23 Apr 1196 in Szekesfehervar, Fejer, Hungary
- b.1076 in Kiev, Ukraine d.15 Apr 1132
- b.1130 in Kiev, Ukraine d.1186 in Byzantium, Turkey
- b.1100 in Novgorod, Russia d.1168
- b.1176 in Esztergom, Komaron-Esztergom, Hungary d.21 Sep 1235 in Eger, Heves, Hungary
- b.1133
- b.1118
- b.1154 in Versailles, Seine-Et-Oise, France d.1184
- b.Nov 1206 in Esztergom, Komarom-Esztergom, Hungary d.03 May 1270
- b.1100 in Andechs, Oberbayern, Bavaria d.27 Jun 1151
- b.1128 in Andechs, Obayern, Bayern d.14 Dec 1185
- b.1113 in Andechs, Oberbayern, Bayern d.06 Sep 1126
- b.1159 in Andechs, Oberbayern, Bavaria d.12 Aug 1204
- b.1085 in Austria d.1140
- b.1130 in Austria
- b.1100 in Austria d.18 Jan 1144
- b.1185 in Andechs, Oberbayern, Bavaria d.28 Sep 1213
- b.1098 in Meissen, Dresden, Saxony d.05 Feb 1157 in Kloster Petersberg Bei Halle, Sachsen, Prussia
- b.1136 in Meissen, Dresden, Saxony d.16 Aug 1190
- b.1100 in Schwaben, Bavaria d.19 Jun 1145 in Kloster Gerbstedt, Sachsen, Prussia
- b.1166 in Groitzsch, Leipzig, Saxony d.Mar 1195
- b.1107 in Heinsberg, Rheinland, Prussia d.1170
- b.1139 in Heinsberg, Rheinland, Prussia d.20 Nov 1189
- b.1110 in Sommerschenburg, Sachsen, Prussia d.1170
- b.1240 d.01 Aug 1272
- b.1100
- b.1143 in Nicaea, Bursa, Turkey
- b.1088 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire d.08 Apr 1143 in Mount Taurus, Cilicia
- b.11 Feb 1105 in Balabista, Macedonia d.1143
- b.1088 in Esztergom, Hungary d.13 Aug 1143 in Bythnial, Turkey
- b.1175 in Nicea, Bursa, Turkey d.Aug 1222
- b.1143 in Constantinople, Turkey d.1211
- b.1148 in Nicaea, Bursa, Turkey
- b.1143 in Constantinople, Turkey d.1211 in Arta, Epirus
- b.1206 in Nicaea, Bursa, Turkey d.1270
- b.1085 d.Jul 1166
- b.1122 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire d.1185
- b.15 Jan 1096 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
- b.1143 d.1211
- b.1099
- b.1125 in Constantinople, Turkey d.1195
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- b.1173 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire d.1212
- b.1086
- b.1116 d.1176
- b.1086 d.1123
- b.1143 d.1211 in Arta, Ellas
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Details of Stephen's family with Elizabeth of Kumanien
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