Kocel

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Kocel statue in the Serbian Parliament

Kocel ( Latin : Kozel , Kotsel , Gozil , Chozilo , Chezilo , Hezilo , Chezul ; Slovak : Koceľ , Slovene : Kocelj ; † 876 ) was a Slavic prince ( Knes or Knjaz ) and from 861 to 876 the second ruler of the Balaton Principality (in today's Hungary ).

Life

His year of birth is unknown. He was the son of the Prince of the Balaton Principality Pribina and his (probably) Bavarian wife.

From 850 at the latest he administered his own area (maybe the Lake Balaton county ?). In 853 he donated an estate ( curia ) near Rosdorf an der Raab , which can no longer be identified today, to the Regensburg monastery of Sankt Emmeram . The place Chezilsaden , today's Kitzladen in the Austrian Burgenland could go back to his name Chezilo .

In 861, following the violent death of his father by Moravians, he became Prince of the Balaton Principality as his successor .

At first he and his principality were more or less a vassal of Eastern Franconia , later he was an ally of Great Moravia, but came back under East Franconian influence in the 870s.

He continued the Christianization policy of his father Pribina. Adalwin , the archbishop of Salzburg , consecrated several new churches in the Balaton Principality in 865.

He is best known for the accommodation of the brothers Kyrill von Saloniki and Method von Saloniki in the summer of 867 during their transit to Rome. The two Slav missionaries are said to have trained up to 50 students in Kocel's capital Moosburg (now Zalavár) and left a lasting impression on Kocel. He supported and then spread the (old church) Slavic liturgy .

In the winter of 869/870 Kocel obtained the Pope's appointment of Methods as Archbishop of Pannonia and Greater Moravia with his seat in Sirmium . After Method was appointed archbishop, Kocel's Balaton Principality in Pannonia became part of the new archbishopric together with Greater Moravia.

In 876 he took part in the failed East Franconian Bavarian campaign against the Dalmatian Croats as a follower of King Karlmann and fell.

After Kocel's death, the Balaton Principality fell to the later East Franconian King Arnulf of Carinthia .

literature

  • J. Hahn: Kocel . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 2. Munich 1976, p. 421 f.
  • Kocel . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 4, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-7608-8904-2 , column 76.
  • András Róna-Tas: Hungarians and Europe in the Early Middle Ages . Central European University Press, Budapest 1999, ISBN 963-9116-48-3 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Ernst Dümmler: About the south-eastern brands of the Franconian Empire under the Carolingians , 1853.
  2. ↑ Michael Mitterauer : Carolingian margraves in the southeast. Franconian imperial aristocracy and Bavarian tribal nobility in Austria , Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1963.
  3. ↑ Or on another bearer of this name. In addition Fritz Zimmermann: Historical-ethnographic analysis of the German settlement areas of western Hungary. Verlag Braumüller, Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-7003-0082-4 , p. 147
  4. ↑ Ferdinand Sisic: History of the Croats. First part (up to 1102) , Matica Hrcatska publishing house, Zagreb 1917.
personal data
SURNAME Kocel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gozil; Chozilo; Chezilo; Chezul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slavic prince
DATE OF BIRTH before 860
DATE OF DEATH 876