Buzád Hahót
The Blessed Buzád Hahót, Roman Catholic Church | |
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Feast | 13 November |
Patronage | Politicians |
Buzád II Hahót | |
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Lucas | |
Noble family | gens Hahót |
Issue | Buzád III, Csák I, Tristan, Lancelot Hahót |
Father | Buzád I |
Buzád II Hahót,
Buzád was killed during a
Ancestry and family
[...] They are sprung from the counts of Orlamund. The first to come was called Hadolch, whose son was called by the like name of Hadolch and also Arnold. From them sprang Banus Buzad. The people of this country could not pronounce Hadolch, and so he was called by the similar name of Hohold. [...]
Buzád was born into the Buzád branch of the Hahót clan, the son of Buzád I (died 1192).[3] According to magister Ákos, the founder of the Hahót kindred was Buzád's grandfather, a certain German knight Hahold I, who himself was a descendant of the Counts of Weimar-Orlamünde and settled down in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1163 upon the invitation of Stephen III of Hungary to fight against his usurper uncle Stephen IV of Hungary and his allies, the Csáks. Buzád's brother was Arnold I (died c. 1234), who erected the family monastery at Hahót. Buzád had four sons from his unidentified wife: Buzád III (his presumptive heir, who, however, predeceased his father around November 1239), Csák I, Voivode of Transylvania, Tristan and Lancelot.[4] The two latter names represent the spread of chivalric culture in the Hungarian elite, specifically the Hahót kindred.[5]
Career
According to a non-authentic charter, Buzád served as the Ispán (comes) of Győr County in 1209.[6] There is no record of him receiving any official positions for the coming two decades. In authentic contemporary records, Buzád and his (unidentified) descendants were first mentioned in 1215, when a certain knight of the queen's court, Wilermus, sold his lands between the Mura and Drava rivers for 200 marks to them.[7] In 1217, King Andrew II of Hungary commissioned Buzád to determine the borders of those lands which he had donated to the cathedral chapter of Zagreb in that donation letter.[7] According to a late 17th-century family tree of his kindred, Buzád participated in the first phase of the Fifth Crusade (1217–18), led by King Andrew II, albeit the anonymous author confused his name with the name of his grandfather and clan founder Hahold, but the rest of the data is the same as his life path.[8]
He functioned as the Ispán of Bihar County in 1222.[9] He was dismissed from his position, when a group of discontented barons staged a coup d'état in the spring of 1222. Following their failure, Buzád was the head of Pozsony County between 1222 and 1224.[10] During that time there were emerging tensions between King Andrew II and his son, Béla. The latter rebelled against his father's rule, who was forced to share his realms with his heir. Buzád became a supporter of Béla, as a result of which he had to follow his lord into exile to Austria in 1223 (he already resided in Vienna in December of that year). In February 1224, Pope Honorius III sent a letter to Buzád – still referred to with the title Ispán of Pozsony –, acknowledging his splendid allegiance to Duke Béla, risking his wealth and other goods and the dangers to which he was exposed by it. On the same day, the pope wrote to King Andrew II, warning him not to harm the property of Buzád and the other lords, who took refuge at the court of Duke Leopold VI with Béla.[11] After reconciliation between father and son, Buzád returned to Hungary in the spring of 1224, and became the Ispán of Vas County in 1225, which then belonged to the Duchy of Slavonia, the realm of Béla.[3]
Buzád served as the Ban of Severin from 1226 to c. 1232, when Béla governed
Alongside his cousin,
Monastic life
Buzád came from the most powerful Bánfi family [sic] in Hungary. He had grown up when he was trespassing his riches and fame, and he left his rank on his sons, and with great enthusiasm he commenced a monastic life in the Dominican order. As he gained experience in secular sciences, he soon became a tireless propagator of God's Word. When the Tartars [Mongols] broke into Hungary, and they perished the servants of God with exceptional cruelty, the Prior commanded their monks to flee, but Buzád did not care about the threat to his life, asking him to let stay and console the Christian people. He was so persistently asking for his [the Prior] permission, that he could stay. After his companions were in safe, Buzád set out to die for Christ and encouraged the people to do the same. When the Tatars' troops were nearby, the handful of flocks were blessed [by Buzád] with glorious intentions of the glorious death endured for Christ. He himself in the church, as if in a crucifixion, prayed with prowess at the altar. So he offered himself for an entirely burnt sacrifice, and he was killed on 8 December 1243 [sic]. After the barbarians retreated, the returning brothers found his beheaded corpse, which was pierced with spears, and they mourned him very. One brother had mourned Buzád for three days, while he did not take food and drink, when he was astonished, and heard the mourned martyr say to him, "Did not Christ have to suffer before entering his glory? The sufferings of the present time are not proportionate to the future glory. " The brother was no longer mourned for that, but rejoiced.
— Gábor Hevenesi: Ungaricae Sanctitatis Indicia (1692)
Around 1233, Buzád joined the Dominican Order, giving up his political career and forsaking all property. As a charter dated 14 February 1233 mentioned, he already lived in a monastery at
Honors
In honor of Hahót, a wooden sculpture was erected in 2009 at Hahót, Zala County, which village was founded by his clan. The lifesize statue depicts the noble, with one hand holding a sword and a Latin cross in the other, referring to his secular and ecclesiastical careers. László Vigh, a member of the Hungarian National Assembly, gave a speech during consecration, where he said the youth should follow persons who lived out their lives with God's love and honest work, instead of false role models.[18] A lookout at Zajk Hill near Letenye ("Boldog Buzád Kilátó"), designed by Imre Makovecz and constructed after his death, is also dedicated to him.[19]
References
- ^ a b Zsoldos 2011, p. 49.
- ^ The Hungarian Illuminated Chronicle (ch. 49), p. 102.
- ^ a b c Markó 2006, p. 451.
- ^ Marek, Miroslav. "Hahót family tree". Genealogy.EU.
- ^ Kurcz 1988, p. 248.
- ^ Zsoldos 2011, p. 157.
- ^ a b Forțiu 2020, p. 732.
- ^ Tantalics 2009, pp. 16–17.
- ^ Zsoldos 2011, p. 139.
- ^ Zsoldos 2011, p. 183.
- ^ Forțiu 2020, p. 735.
- ^ Zsoldos 2011, p. 292.
- ^ Forțiu 2020, pp. 736–740.
- ^ Forțiu 2020, p. 741.
- ^ Zsoldos 2011, p. 198.
- ^ Zsoldos 2016, p. 446.
- ^ Vándor 1996, p. 50.
- ^ "A falut alapító nemzetség vértanújának" (in Hungarian). Zaol.hu. 2009-10-12. Archived from the original on 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2013-11-14.
- ^ "Nagy árat fizetnek a letenyei kilátóért" (in Hungarian). Zaol.hu. 2019-01-08. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
Sources
- Forțiu, Sorin (2020). "Magnus Buzad, primul ban de Severin (~1228–'30)? [Magnus Buzad, the first banus of Severin (~1228–'30)?]". In Forțiu, Sorin (ed.). ArheoVest, Nr. VIII: In Honorem Alexandru RĂDULESCU, Interdisciplinaritate în Arheologie și Istorie, Timişoara, noiembrie 2020 (Vol 1–2.) (in Romanian). JATE-Press Kiadó. pp. 727–785. ISBN 978-963-315-464-9.
- Kurcz, Ágnes (1988). Lovagi kultúra Magyarországon a 13–14. században [Chivalric Culture in Hungary in the 13–14th Centuries] (in Hungarian). Akadémiai Kiadó. ISBN 963-05-4737-6.
- Markó, László (2006). A magyar állam főméltóságai Szent Istvántól napjainkig: Életrajzi Lexikon [Great Officers of State in Hungary from King Saint Stephen to Our Days: A Biographical Encyclopedia] (in Hungarian). Helikon Kiadó. ISBN 963-208-970-7.
- Tantalics, Béla (2009). A Bánffy család szellemi hagyatéka [The Intellectual Legacy of the Bánffy Family] (in Hungarian). Lenti Honismereti Egyesület. ISBN 978-963-06-5372-5.
- Vándor, László (1996). "Boldog Buzád. Gondolatok középkorkutatásunkról, kulturális emlékeinkről az egyetlen és méltatlanul elfeledett középkori zalai szent kapcsán [Blessed Buzád. Thoughts on our Medieval Research, Cultural Monuments in connection with the only and undeservedly forgotten Medieval Saint of Zala County]". Pannon Tükör (in Hungarian). 1 (1): 48–50. ISSN 1219-6886.
- Zsoldos, Attila (2011). Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1000–1301 [Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1000–1301] (in Hungarian). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. ISBN 978-963-9627-38-3.
- Zsoldos, Attila (2016). "Béla erdélyi herceg bárói [The Barons of Béla, Duke of Transylvania]". In Dáné, Veronika; Lupescu-Makó, Mária; Sipos, Gábor (eds.). Testimonio litterarum. Tanulmányok Jakó Zsigmond tiszteletére (in Hungarian). Erdélyi Múzeum Egyesület. pp. 441–449. ISBN 978-606-739-054-4.