Mizse was a noble in the 13th century in the Kingdom of Hungary, who served as the last Palatine of King Ladislaus IV of Hungary in 1290.
10 Facts About Mizse
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Mizse was born in a Muslim family, but he converted to Roman Catholicism.
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Mizse was born into a family of Muslim origin, which possessed landholdings in Tolna County in Transdanubia.
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Mizse had a brother Eyza, who administered the royal lands Visegrad and Pilis in 1285.
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Mizse was incorrectly formerly called Lizse based on the 15th-century Buda Chronicle.
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Mizse had two sons, James, to whom the child Csala, the daughter of James Gyor was forcibly engaged, and Eyzech.
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Mizse was the only known non-Christian in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary to reach such a high position.
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Mizse assisted King Andrew III in his victorious campaign against Austria in the summer of 1291.
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Mizse strongly opposed the beginning of peace negotiations that ended the brief war and proposed the capture of Austrian castles along the Danube by using warships.
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Around the same time, in 1294 or 1295, Mizse occupied by force the royal fortress at Dunaszekcso and he refused to return it to the monarch or his mother.