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Personal data Béla II "de Blinde" van Hongarije 

• He was born in the year 1110.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Béla II (1110-1141), bijg. de Blinde, was koning van 1131 tot 1141 en behoorde tot het huis van Árpád. Hij was de zoon van Álmos, een zoon van koning Géza I van Hongarije, die de troon probeerde te grijpen van zijn broer koning Koloman. Als straf voor de mislukte rebellie werden Álmos en Béla blind gemaakt.
  
  Zijn neef koning Stefan stierf zonder nakomelingen, en duidde Béla aan als zijn opvolger.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Béla II the Blind (Hungarian: II. (Vak) Béla, Slovak: Belo II, Croatian: Bela II.) (c. 1110 – 13 February 1141), King of Hungary[1] and Croatia (1131–1141). Still as a child, Béla was blinded by his uncle, King Coloman who wanted to ensure the succession of his own son, the future King Stephen II. During his childhood, Béla lived in different monasteries of the kingdom till the childless King Stephen II invited him to his court. Following King Stephen's death, Béla ascended the throne, but during his reign he had continuously struggle with King Coloman's alleged son, Boris who tried to acquire the crown with the military assistance of the neighbouring countries.
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  Early years
  
  Béla was the only son of Duke Álmos, the younger brother of King Coloman of Hungary. His mother was Predslava of Kiev. Duke Álmos led several rebellions against his brother, but finally, he and Béla were blinded in 1113. Father and son were living together in the Premonstratensian Monastery of Dömös till 1126, when Duke Álmos tried to organise a conspiracy against King Stephen II, King Coloman's son and heir, but he failed and had to escape to the Byzantine Empire. Following his father's escape, Béla was taken secretly to the Monastery of Pécsvárad by his father's partisans.
  
  In 1129, after the death of Duke Álmos, King Stephen was informed that his blind cousin was still living in Hungary, and he invited Béla to his court. Upon the king's request, Béla married Jelena, a daughter of Serbian Duke Uroš I of Raška, and the king granted the couple estates near Tolna.
  
  On 1 March 1131, the childless king died, and on 28 April, Béla was crowned in Székesfehérvár, although King Stephen II had designated his sister's son, Saul his successor in 1126, but Saul had died before his uncle, or Béla's partisans managed to defeat him.
  Struggles with Boris
  
  As Béla was blind, his wife played a decisive role in governing his kingdom. Shortly after ascending the throne, Queen Helena ordered the massacre of the people she considered responsible for her husband's blinding at an assembly in Arad. She implaced her brother, Beloš, as the count palatine, giving him supreme command over the Hungarian Army and a commendable place in the Hungarian Royal Court.
  
  Béla's entire reign was overshadowed by a conflict with Boris, a questionable son of King Coloman of doubtful paternage, in which Boris was supported by Poland and Rus'. In 1132, King Boleslaus III of Poland led a campaign with Rus' and Polish troops on Boris' behalf. When Béla were informed that the Polish and Rus' armies entered to Hungary, he assembled a meeting of the barons where all the participants were killed who did not want to declare Boris a bastard result of infidelity. King Boleslaus and Boris were defeated near the Sajó River on 22 July, but Boris was to prove a persistent claimant for a number of years to come.
  His policy
  
  Béla's reign was notable for his foreign policy - his sisters Hedwig and Adelaide were married to a son of Margrave Leopold III of Austria and to Duke Sobeslav I of Bohemia respectively, thereby allying Hungary with two previously inimical states. His brothers-in-law convinced Emperor Lothair III, who had been struggling against Poland, to include into the terms of the Peace of Merseburg[disambiguation needed] with Boleslaw III that the Polish king would not support Boris against Béla any more. Than, in 1131., Béla, and his wife, Ilona, a diet was held near Arad. All the followers of Boris were invited there and the people of the king asked them, that whom do they support. If they admit, the people of the king killed them.
  The bloody diet of Arad
  
  In 1136, Béla managed to recover parts of Dalmatia from the control of the Republic of Venice, and sent an expedition into Bosnia. In 1137, he gave the title of Duke of Bosnia, with acceptance from the entire country, to his middle son Ladislaus.
  
  Béla died from the effects of an overindulgence of alcohol.

• He died in the year 1141, he was 31 years old.
• A child of Álmos van Hongarije and Predslava van Kiev
• This information was last updated on November 22, 2012.

Household of Béla II "de Blinde" van Hongarije

He is married to Helena van Rascia.

They got married on April 28, 1127, he was 17 years old.Source 3

Child(ren):

1. Sophia van Hongarije  
2. Álmos van Hongarije  
3. Elisabeth van Hongarije  1128-< 1154 
4. Géza II van Hongarije  1130-1161 
5. Ladislaus II van Hongarije  1132-1163
6. Stefanus IV van Hongarije  1133-1165

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