Levente was a member of the House of Arpad, a great-grandson of Taksony, Grand Prince of the Hungarians.
10 Facts About Levente
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Levente was expelled from Hungary in 1031 or 1032, and spent many years in Bohemia, Poland and the Kievan Rus'.
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Levente returned to Hungary, where a pagan uprising was developing around that time, in 1046.
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Levente remained a devout pagan, but did not hinder the election of his Christian brother, Andrew I as king.
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However, historians still debate whether Levente was the eldest or a younger son of his father.
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Gyula Kristo, who says that Levente was Vazul's eldest son, writes that he was born between 1010 and 1015.
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Peter Baling argues the authentic Chronicle of Zagreb explicitly says that Bela was the second son of Vazul, which rules out the possibility that Levente would have been the oldest.
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Andrew was baptized in Kiev, but Levente remained a devout pagan.
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However, the same chronicle writes that Levente gave the crown, in the "simplicity of spirit", to Andrew, suggesting that Levente voluntarily renounced the crown in favor of his brother.
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Levente died in 1047 and was buried in a village on the Danube which was named after his great-grandfather, Taksony, who was "said to lie in a pagan grave" there, according to the Illuminated Chronicle.