Taksony

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

Taksony (Latin Toxun, Greek Taxis; * 931 ; † 970 or 973) was Grand Duke of Hungarians from 955 to approx. 970 . He came from the Árpáden family and was the son of Grand Duke Zoltán .

Grand Duke

At the head of an army, Taksony was sent to Pavia in 947 to support the Italian kings Hugo and Lothar against the Byzantines in Apulia ; at the same time he was to receive the usual Italian tribute to the Hungarian princes.

After their defeat in the Battle of Lechfeld (955), the Hungarians elected Taksony as Grand Duke. He then had to return the Bavarian Avarmark and give up support for the Bavarian rebellions. This step meant a peace treaty with the Bavarian neighbors. Taksony concluded similar agreements with the Bohemian rulers, with the Kievan Rus , the Pechenegs and with the Bulgarians . Taksony may have been married to a Hephenegic princess. In the course of this development the Hungarians began to settle down, the raids decreased, and the first attempts at proselytizing took place. In addition, Taksony succeeded in weakening the traditional tribal order of the Hungarians and in placing himself in a more powerful position vis-à-vis the tribal chiefs. He also settled foreign groups in the border region and chose his quarters on the east side of the Danube , in Pest .

Taksony began to seek baptism and thereby a stronger legitimation of his rule. However, he tried to avoid that his empire was attached to a foreign national church . His negotiations with Pope John XII. to an independent Hungarian regional church were successful insofar as John 961 or 962 consecrated a bishop for Hungary for the first time. However, the German Emperor Otto I prevented the bishop from taking up his work because he wanted to exercise control over the Christianization of Hungary himself. Only Taksony's descendants Géza and Stephan I succeeded in classifying Hungary in the Christian West .

When the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII refused the tribute, Taksony sent the Hungarian military leader Apor against Constantinople in vain . In 970 Taksony was involved in an attack on Byzantium, which failed in the Battle of Arkadiopolis (970) .

local community

Taksony is also the name of a community south of Budapest with around 5500 inhabitants including a German minority (despite being displaced ). It maintains partnerships with the municipality of Henfenfeld (since July 1991) and with the city of Rain (since May 2012).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ György Györffy: Taksony . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 8, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-89659-908-9 , Sp. 438.
  2. ↑ Description of the place in English and German (accessed on May 22, 2012)
  3. ↑ Website of the municipality (accessed on May 22, 2012)
predecessor Office successor
Fajsz Grand Duke of Hungary
955–971 		Géza
personal data
SURNAME Taksony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toxun (Latin); Taxis (greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grand Duke of Hungary
DATE OF BIRTH 931
DATE OF DEATH 970 or 973