Stephen I Báncsa
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Stephen Báncsa was the first Hungarian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Prior to that, he served as Bishop of Vác from 1240 or 1241 to 1243, then Archbishop of Esztergom from 1242 until his crea
Stephen Báncsa
Béla IV of Hungary
Pope Innocent IV at the First Council of Lyon (1245)
Seal of Cardinal Stephen Báncsa (1270)
Matthias Rátót
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Matthias from the kindred Rátót was a Hungarian prelate in the first half of the 13th century, who served as Bishop of Vác from 1238 to 1240, then Archbishop of Esztergom from 1239 until his death in
Stephen I Báncsa
…Mongol invasion of Hungary in 1241, but their credibility is highly questionable. After the death of Robert, Archbishop of Esztergom on 1 November 1239, Matthias Rátót, Bishop of Vác was elected as his successor in the same month, which was confirmed by Pope Gregory IX in March 1240. Báncsa's autobiographer Gergely…
Ruins of the Premonstratensian monastery in Veszprém–Gyulafirátót