Peter II (bishop of Győr)
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Peter was a Hungarian prelate at the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries, who served as Bishop of Győr from 1205 to 1218. Prior to that, he was chancellor in the royal court of Emeric, King of Hungary
20th-century statue of the anonymous author of the Gesta Hungarorum in Vajdahunyad Castle in Budapest
Andrew II at the head of his crusader army (from the Illuminated Chronicle)
Ugrin from the kindred Csák was a Hungarian prelate at the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries, who served as Bishop of Győr from 1188 to 1204, then briefly Archbishop-elect of Esztergom in 1204.
Peter II (bishop of Győr)
…scientific proficiency. According to Károly Sólyom, Peter studied together with his friend the "literate" Nicholas Csák (brother or nephew of Bishop Ugrin Csák). Accordingly, later Anonymus dedicated his work to "the most venerable man N", i.e. Nicholas. Peter read Dares Phrygius's Trojan History, if the…
The ruins of Vértesszentkereszt Abbey