Csanád
Csanád, also Chanadinus or Cenad, was the first head (comes) of Csanád County in the Kingdom of Hungary in the first decades of the 11th century.
Csanád defeated and killed Ajtony who had ruled over the region now known as Banat (in Romania and Serbia). Csanád County and its capital (Cenad, in Hungarian Csanád) were named after him.
Life
The anonymous author of the 13th-century Gesta Ungarorum states that Csanád was the nephew of King Stephen I of Hungary (1000/1001-1038)(nepos regis) and his father’s name was Doboka. According to the Long Life of St Gerard, an early 14th century compilation of different sources, Csanád was a pagan in the service of Ahtum.
Ahtum, whose residence was at “urbs Morisena” on the Mureş River, controlled traffic along the river and taxed transport of salts from Transylvania to the heartland of Pannonia. It was in relation to salt that Ahtum found himself in conflict with Stephen, the newly proclaimed king of Hungary. According to the Long Life, Csanád had been loyal to Ahtum, but later switched sides and at the head of a large army sent by King Stephen I eventually defeated and killed Ahtum. Csanád was subsequently given substantial grants of land in the newly conquered territories of his former lord.
Csanád (disambiguation)
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