Stephen V of Hungary, King of Hungary^[1]

Bef 1239 - 1272  (~ 32 years)

• Name	Stephen V of Hungary
  Suffix	King of Hungary
  Birth	Bef 18 Oct 1239	Buda, Hungary
  Gender	Male
  Crowned	1246
  	Junior King
  	In 1246 Stephen was crowned as junior King and his father entrusted him with the government of Croatia , Slavonia and Dalmatia , but the three provinces were «i»de facto«/i» governed by the Ban Stephen Gut-Keled .
  Acceded	1258
  	Duke of Styria
  	Stephen took part in his father's military campaign against the Styrians, who had rebelled against the rule of the King of Hungary , in 1258. After the successful campaign, King Béla IV appointed him to Duke of Styria . His government, however, was unpopular among his new subjects, who rebelled against him with the support of King Ottokar II of Bohemia . Stephen and his father started an attack against Ottokar's lands, but their troops were defeated on 12 July 1260 in the «u»Battle of Kroissenbrunn «/u». Following the battle, the two Kings of Hungary ceded the «u»Duchy of Styria «/u» to the «u»King of Bohemia «/u» in the «u»Peace of Pressburg «/u».
  Acceded	1258
  	Duke of Transylvania
  	In 1257, Stephen demanded that his father divide the kingdom between themselves and recruited an army against the senior king. Finally, in 1258, King Béla IV was obliged to cede to his son the government of Transylvania , with the title duke .
  Acceded	1270
  	King of Hungary
  	was King of Hungary from 1270 to 1272
  Death	6 Aug 1272	Csepel Island, Hungary
  Notes	http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal06343 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_V_of_Hungary
  Person ID	I8356	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

  Father	Béla IV of Hungary, King of Hungary,   b. 1206   d. 3 May 1270 (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Maria Laskaris   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F3421	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth the Cuman   d. Aft 1290
  Marriage	Abt 1253
  	Stephen's father, attempting to bind the powerful but pagan Cuman tribes more closely to the dynasty , arranged for Stephen's marriage, as a youth (about 1253), to Elizabeth, the daughter of a Cuman chieftain Köten .
  Children	1. Ladislas IV the Cumanian of Hungary, King of Hungary,   b. 1262   d. 10 Jul 1290 (Age 28 years)   2. Mary of Hungary   d. 25 Mar 1323   3. Anna of Hungary, Byzantine Empress,   b. Abt 1260   d. 1281 (Age ~ 21 years)
  Family ID	F3425	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).