Koloman of Galicia

Monument to Koloman in Gödölő

Koloman von Galicia or Koloman von Halitsch (Hungarian Kálmán , Latin Coloman , Cyrillic Коломан; * 1208; † 1241) was a Hungarian prince of Halitsch (1214-1221) and Slavonia (1226-1241). He was crowned King of Galicia and Lodomeria in Hungary in 1214 and again in Halitsch in 1216 .

Life

Koloman was the second son of King Andreas II of Hungary and Gertrud von Meran-Andechs . 1214, the six-year-old with the three-year was Salomea of Poland , daughter of the Polish Grand Duke Leszek I married. Thereupon he was appointed Prince von Halitsch by both rulers . The area had been conquered by both of them shortly before. In the spring of 1215, Prince Mstislav of Novgorod moved to the area and conquered it (1215 or 1219?). King Andrew asked Pope Innocent III. to authorize Archbishop John of Esztergom to crown Koloman King of Galicia and Lodomeria ( Rex Galiciae et Lodomeriae ). This took place in 1215 or early 1216.

After Mstislav ruled Halitsch (1215 or 1219), Andreas II and Leszek I recaptured the principality and reinstated Koloman as ruler. In 1221 he was deposed again by Mstislaw and taken prisoner. His father later triggered it.

In 1226 Koloman was appointed Prince of Slavonia, Croatia and Dalmatia by his father. In 1241 he died shortly after the Battle of Mohi against the invaded Golden Horde of the Tatars.

literature

• Gyula Kristó (Ed.): Korai Magyar Történeti Lexicon - 9-14. század (Lexicon of Early Hungarian History - 9th – 14th centuries) . Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1994, ISBN 963-05-6722-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Márta Font: Hungary, Poland and Galicia-Volhynia in the first third of the 13th century. In: Studia Slavica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae . tape 38 , 1993, pp. 27–39 (The chronology is quite controversial.).