Stephen Rátót
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Stephen (I) Rátót | |
|---|---|
| Master of the treasury | |
| Reign | 1273 |
| Predecessor | Joachim Gutkeled |
| Successor | Joachim Gutkeled |
| Died | after 1277 |
| Noble family | gens Rátót |
| Spouses | 1, unidentified 2, Aglent Smaragd |
| Issue | (1) Dominic II (1) Lawrence (1) Ladislaus I (1) Kakas (2) Leustach III |
| Father | Dominic I |
Stephen (I) from the kindred Rátót ("Porc"; Hungarian: Rátót nembeli (I.) "Porc" István; died after 1277) was a Hungarian lord in the 13th century, who served as Master of the treasury. He was a prominent member of the queenly court for years. His acquisitions of lands in Central Hungary proved to be basis for establishment of his clan's province during the era of feudal anarchy.
Stephen was born into the prestigious and influential gens (clan) Rátót, as the son of Dominic I, who was killed in the Battle of Mohi in 1241. Stephen had three brothers, Roland I, Oliver I and Leustach II, and a sister, who married Maurice Pok.[1]
His wife, Aglent Smaragd was mentioned as a living person in 1327, when she resided as a Beguine nun at the Sibylla cloister in Buda. As her brothers, Ladislaus and Aynard were active courtiers even in 1350, it is plausible that Aglent was not the mother of Stephen's four sons: Dominic II, Lawrence, Ladislaus I and Kakas, who all predeceased her. Consequently, Aglent was decades younger than her husband and Stephen had an unidentified first wife before her.[2] Stephen's sons were important lords at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries; Dominic II was a courtier of Andrew III and was one of the most powerful barons during the era of Interregnum. The Pásztói family ascended from him. Lawrence was killed in the Battle of Lake Hód (near present-day Hódmezővásárhely) in 1282. Ladislaus and Kakas followed their elder brother Dominic's political orientation; Ladislaus was ancestor of the Tari family, while Kakas was killed in the Battle of Rozgony in 1312. Stephen also had a son from his marriage with Aglent: Leustach III died without heirs in the 1340s.[1]
