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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1130.

  Let op: Was jonger dan 16 jaar (15) toen kind (Elizabeth of Hungary) werd geboren (??-??-1145).

• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1162, hij was toen 32 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Béla II of Hungary en Jelena Nemanja of Serbia

Gezin van King Geza II of Hungary

Hij had een relatie met Euphrosyne of Kiev.

Kind(eren):

1. Elizabeth of Hungary  1145-1189 
2. Bela III of Hungary  ± 1150-1196 

Notities over King Geza II of Hungary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9za_II_of_Hungary

 

Géza II (Hungarian: II. Géza; Croatian: Gejza II; Slovak: Gejza II; 1130 – 31 May 1162) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1141 to 1162. He was the oldest son of Béla the Blind and his wife, Helena of Serbia. When his father died, Géza was still a child and he started ruling under the guardianship of his mother and her brother, Beloš. A pretender to the throne, Boris Kalamanos, who had already claimed Hungary during Béla the Blind's reign, temporarily captured Pressburg (now Bratislava in Slovakia) with the assistance of German mercenaries in early 1146. In retaliation, Géza, who came of age in the same year, invaded Austria and routed Henry Jasomirgott, Margrave of Austria, in the Battle of the Fischa.

Although the German–Hungarian relations remained tense, no major confrontations occurred when the German crusaders marched through Hungary in June 1147. Two months later, Louis VII of France and his crusaders arrived, along with Boris Kalamanos who attempted to take advantage of the crusade to return to Hungary. Louis VII refused to extradite Boris to Géza, but prevented the pretender from coming into contacts with his supporters in Hungary and took him to Constantinople. Géza joined the coalition that Louis VII and Roger II of Sicily formed against Conrad III of Germany and the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos. The ancestors of the Transylvanian Saxons came to Hungary during Géza's reign. Western European knights and Muslim warriors from the Pontic steppes also settled in Hungary in this period. Géza even allowed his Muslim soldiers to take concubines.

Géza intervened at least six times in the fights for Kiev on behalf of Iziaslav II of Kiev either by sending reinforcements or by personally leading his troops to the Kievan Rus' between 1148 and 1155. He also waged wars against the Byzantine Empire on behalf of his allies, including his cousins, rulers of the Grand Principality of Serbia, but could not prevent the Byzantines from restoring their suzerainty over them. Conflicts emerged between Géza and his brothers, Stephen and Ladislaus, who fled from Hungary and settled in Emperor Manuel's court in Constantinople. Géza supported Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, against the Lombard League with auxiliary troops between 1158 and 1160. After the cardinals who supported Emperor Frederick I elected Victor IV pope, Géza acknowledged his legitimacy in 1160, but in a year, he changed sides and concluded a concordat with Victor IV's opponent, Pope Alexander III. Before his death, Géza organized a separate appanage duchy for his younger son, Béla.

Géza was born the eldest son of Béla the Blind, a cousin of King Stephen II of Hungary, and Helena of Serbia in 1130.^[1][2] Géza's father had been blinded, together with his rebellious father, Álmos, in the 1110s on the order of Stephen II's father, Coloman, King of Hungary, who wanted to ensure Stephen's succession.^[3] When Géza was born, his parents lived on an estate that King Stephen had granted them in Tolna.^[1] Géza's father succeeded King Stephen in the spring of 1131.^[4] In the same year, Queen Helena took Géza and his younger brother, Ladislaus, to an assembly held at Arad, where she ordered the massacre of sixty-eight noblemen "by whose counsel the King had been blinded",^[5] according to the Illuminated Chronicle.^[6]

Géza's wife, Euphrosyne of Kiev, was a daughter of Grand Prince Mstislav I of Kiev.^[90] She survived Géza and died around 1193.^[91] Their first child, Stephen, was born in the summer of 1147; he succeeded Géza in 1162.^[92][93] His younger brother, Béla, was born in about 1148; he inherited Hungary after the death of Stephen in 1172.^[94] Géza's third son and namesake, Géza, was born in the 1150s.^[95] The youngest son of Géza and Euphrosyne, Árpád, did not survive childhood.^[95] Géza's and Euphrosyne's oldest daughter, Elizabeth, was given in marriage to Frederick of Bohemia, who was the heir to Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia, in 1157.^[65][95] The second daughter, Odola, married Vladislaus II of Bohemia's younger son, Sviatopluk, in 1164.^[96][95] The third daughter of Géza and Euphrosyne, Helena, became the wife of Leopold V of Austria in 1174.^[97][95]

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