Bánk Bár-Kalán

Bánk Bár-Kalán
Palatine of Hungary
Reign	1212–1213
Predecessor	Pat Győr
Successor	Nicholas
Issue a daughter
Noble family	gens Bár-Kalán
Born	?
Died	after 1228

Bánk of the Bár-Kalán clan (Hungarian: Bárkalán nembéli Bánk; died after 1228) was an influential nobleman in the Kingdom of Hungary in the first decades of the 13th century. He was Palatine of Hungary between 1212 and 1213, Judge royal from 1221 till 1222, and Ban of Slavonia between 1208 and 1209 and in 1217.^[1][2] He was also ispán of at least eight counties in the first decades of the 13th century.^[3] According to later tradition, Queen Gertrude of Merania's brother raped Bánk's wife, which caused her assassination in 1213.^[4] He is the subject of the opera Bánk bán by Ferenc Erkel.^[2]

References

1. Zsoldos 2011, pp. 17, 29, 43, 286.
2. Markó 2006, p. 209.
3. Zsoldos 2011, p. 286.
4. Engel 2001, p. 91.

Sources

• Engel, Pál (2001). The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895–1526. I.B. Tauris Publishers. ISBN 1-86064-061-3.
• Markó, László (2006). A magyar állam főméltóságai Szent Istvántól napjainkig: Életrajzi Lexikon [Great Officers of State in Hungary from King Saint Stephen to Our Days: A Biographical Encyclopedia] (in Hungarian). Helikon Kiadó. ISBN 963-547-085-1.
• Zsoldos, Attila (2011). Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1000–1301 [Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1000–1301] (in Hungarian). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. ISBN 978-963-9627-38-3.