Solt (son of Árpád)

Solt (* around 896 ; † around 949 ) was the youngest son of Árpád and Grand Duke of the Magyars.

Solt (* ~ 896, † ~ 949)

Zolta, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber after a drawing by Moritz von Schwind , ca.1828

Life

Solt or Zsolt, also Zolta or Zaltasz (* approx. 896 ; † ~ 949 ) was the youngest son of Grand Duke Árpád and after his death Grand Duke of Hungary until 949 . After the conquest , the Carpathian Basin was distributed among the leaders of the individual tribes. Solt received the area in southern Hungary at the confluence of the Danube and Drava rivers as the "heir to the throne" . His four older brothers had all died before their father's death († 907). The inheritance therefore fell on Solt, who was still a minor when his father died.

Anonymous uses the name Zolta in his chronicle for Solt and writes the following about his legacy:

"ZOLTA VEZÉR ÖRÖKÖSÖDÉSE

Örökébe lépett a fia, Zolta; apjához hasonló Erkölcsére, azonban elütõ természetére nézve. Zolta vezér ugyanis kicsit selyp és fehér bõrû volt, puha és szõke hajú, középtermetû, harcias vezér, bátor szívû, ám alattvalói iránt kegyes, nyájas beszédû, de hat akalomra magsyodarõzózózózóet cátoramózózózózózózózózózózózózózózózívu Bizonyos idõelt eltével, mikor Zolta vezér tizenhárom esztendõs volt, országának fõemberei valamennyien egyértelemmel és közakarattal egyeseket országbírákul rendeltek a vezér alá ... " (Hungarian version)

German translation:

"The legacy of the Führer Zolta"

“The inheritance came to his (Árpád's) son Zolta, he had the same principles as his father, but his character was different. He lisped a little, had white skin, soft blond hair, was of medium height, a belligerent leader with a courageous heart, kind to his subjects, affable but striving for power. He was loved by the superiors and heroes of Hungary. After a long time, when the Fiihrer was thirteen years old, judges were appointed in agreement with the rulers of the empire - amicably in accordance with the will of the general public - who were placed under him. "

Solt succeeded the throne in 907. His 40-year reign was fraught with civil unrest and acts of war. The central power fell completely, the seven Magyar tribes and associated Khazarian Khabars war. The Hungarians carried out many raids, even as far as France and Italy , the Balkans and the East Frankish Empire . There they forced tributes and in 933 experienced their first severe setback in the battle of Riyade on the Unstrut .

Anonymus writes the following about Solt's marriage in the Gesta Hungarorum :

"Árpád vezér pedig nemeseivel tanácsot tartva, Mén-Marót üzenetét szívesen fogadta és helyeselte; majd mikor hallotta, hogy Mén-Marót leánya már egykorú az õ fiával, Mén-Marót kérelmének értával, Mén-Marót kérelmének njesítátéfáltáté njesítáténeztáté njesítát érelménezt országgal egyetemben. " (Hungarian version)

German translation:

“The leader Árpád held council with his nobles. He welcomed the news from Ménmarót; and when he heard that Ménmarót's daughter was of the same age as his son, he did not want to refuse Ménmarót's request and accepted the offer - together with the offered land (Reich) - and gave her (the girl) to his son Zolta as his wife . "

According to the hypothetical view of the historian Charles Bowles, Solt is said to have married a Moravian princely daughter in 904 and became the first Hungarian governor in Moravia in 906 (after the collapse of the Great Moravian Empire ) and later, between 933 and 947, ruling Grand Duke of Hungary . However, this assumption seems unlikely to most historians. He was succeeded by Fajsz (between 943 and 947), a grandson of Árpád and son of Jutas.

Descendants

The son Taksony emerged from the connection between Solts and Ménmarót's daughter . The son of Taksony was Geisa ( ung. Géza) the father of Stephen the Holy , the first crowned Apostolic King and founder of the Kingdom of Hungary .

literature

Samuel Klein (Evangelical pastor in Felka in the Zips ): Handbook of the history of Hungary, Leipzig and Kaschau , 1833

Dezső Dümmerth: Az Árpádok nyomában, Budapest 1980, ISBN 963-243-224-X , (Hungarian)

Magyarország Története, ("History of Hungary"), Akadémiai Kiadó Budapest, 1984 (Hungarian)

Bowlus, Charles R. (1994). Franks, Moravians and Magyars: The Struggle for the Middle Danube, 788-907 . University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-3276-3 . (English)

Web links

Gesta Hungarorum by Anonymous (in Hungarian)

References and comments

1. ↑ The name Solt, Zsolt, Zolta should not be confused with "Zoltán", which was derived from "Sultan". The name "Solt ..." is of Slavic origin: 'жёлтый' ( Russian ) and actually means "yellow". Ultimately, this is not surprising, since the ancient Magyars also maintained contact with Old Russian tribes on their migration from their old homeland Etelköz .
2. ^ The reign of Solt is not clearly documented. According to other sources, Szabolcs, who after Árpád was the second of the seven military leaders in the hierarchy , assumed power as Grand Duke in 910. (Lit .: Magyarország története , Vol. 1/2, p. 1493)
3. ↑ Magyarország Története, Akadémiai Kiadó Budapest, 1984, vol. 1, p. 624 (Hungarian)
4. ↑ Dümmerth; P. 121
5. ↑ ^{a b} Text from Gesta Hungarorum (Hungarian version)
6. ↑ Samuel Klein: Handbook ... p. 35
7. ↑ also in Samuel Klein: Handbuch ..., p. 17
8. ↑ Ménmarót was a prince and is known as the lord of Bihar . (Small: manual ..., p. 17)
9. ↑ Magyarország története, Vol. 1/2, p. 1497

predecessor	Office	successor
Árpád or Tarhos	Grand Duke of Hungary 907–947	Fajsz