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Samuel Aba
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Key facts
- Reign
- September 1041 – 5 July 1044
- Coronation
- 22 April 1044, Csanád
- Predecessor
- Peter
- Successor
- Peter
- Born
- before 990 or c. 1009
- Died
- 5 July 1044
- Burial
- Abasár , Hungary
- House
- House of Aba
- Religion
- Pagan or Judaism then Chalcedonian Christianity
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Place of death
- Füzesabony
- Occupation
- monarch
- Position held
- Palatine of Hungary
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Religion
- Christianity
- Family
- Aba
- Image
- Aba samuel.jpg
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- Commons category
- Samuel of Hungary
- date of death
- 1044-07-05
- place of burial
- Abasár
- date of birth
- 0990-00-00
- name in native language
- Aba Sámuel magyar király
- cause of death
- decapitation
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Encyclopedic overview
Samuel Aba (Hungarian: Aba Sámuel; before 990 or c. 1009 – 5 July 1044) reigned as King of Hungary between 1041 and 1044. He was born to a prominent family with extensive domains in the region of the Mátra Hills. Based on reports in the Gesta Hungarorum and other Hungarian chronicles about the non-Hungarian origin of the Aba family, modern historians write that the Abas headed the Kabar tribes that seceded from the Khazar Khaganate and joined the Hungarians in the 9th century.
Around 1009, Samuel or his father married a sister of Stephen I, the first King of Hungary. Thereafter the originally pagan or Jewish (because of the Khazar elite link) Aba family converted to Christianity. King Stephen appointed Samuel to head the royal court as his palatine. However, the king died in 1038, and the new monarch, Peter the Venetian, removed Samuel from his post.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samuel Aba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.