17 Facts About Amadeus Aba

Amadeus Aba or Amade Aba was a Hungarian oligarch in the Kingdom of Hungary who ruled de facto independently the northern and north-eastern counties of the kingdom.

Amadeus Aba held the office of Palatine several times, and he was judge royal twice.

Amadeus Aba was assassinated at the south gate in the city of Kassa by Saxon burghers.

Amadeus Aba was born as the son of David I, a member of the genus Aba, who was mentioned as in contemporary sources and ancestor of the Berthoty family.

Amadeus Aba had at least six sons and a daughter from his unidentified wife, who had survived him.

Amadeus Aba received land and special privileges in Poland from Wladyslaw Lokietek King of Poland, and was referred to as Amadej in Polish.

When King Andrew III died, some of the powerful aristocrats became the supporters of Wenceslaus, the crown prince of Bohemia, while others, including Amadeus Aba, supported the claim of Charles, a member of the Angevin dynasty.

Later, Wenceslaus left the kingdom, and shortly afterwards, Amadeus Aba concluded an agreement with Charles and Duke Rudolph III of Austria against Wenceslaus' father, King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia.

Amadeus Aba was present at the Assembly of Rakos where the participants confirmed Charles' claim for the throne.

Amadeus Aba was present when King Charles was crowned in Buda.

Amadeus Aba's dominion developed gradually in the course of the last decades of the 13th century.

Amadeus Aba governed his possessions from his North-Eastern Hungarian castle in Gonc.

Amadeus Aba expropriated the judicial function in his territory as he had an own court of justice in Vizsoly.

Amadeus Aba arbitrarily imposed duties and built castles and appointed castellans among his familiars without the permission of the king.

Amadeus Aba had own provincial court, where he elected chancellors, notaries, judges and even a Judge royal, imitating the functions of royal court.

Amadeus Aba continuously harassed and oppressed the town markets and traders, especially Kassa.

Amadeus Aba exercised sovereign rights in his domain but remained loyal to the kings, thus Zsoldos refers to him as a "loyal oligarch", alongside Stephen Akos.