Matthias of Gran

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Matthias of Gran (Esztergom) was archbishop of Gran or Esztergom in Hungary until his death at the Battle of Mohi (Sajo River) on April 11, 1241. As archbishop of Gran, he was the primate of Hungary.

He succeeded to the archbishopric of Esztergom in 1239 upon the death of Archbishop Robert,[1] and fell with Archbishop Ugrin Csák and three other bishops (Reynold of Transylvania and Jacob of Nitra among them) as they were leading troops against Batu Khan.[2]


[edit] References

  1. ^ Nora Berend, ed., At the Gates of Christendom: Muslims, Jews and Pagans in Medieval Hungary 1000-1350 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 155.
  2. ^ Richard Gabriel, Subotai the Valiant (Westport, CT: Prager, 2004), 122-124; David Morgan, The Mongols (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986), 138-139; Michael C. Paul, "Secular Power and the Archbishops of Novgorod before the Muscovite Conquest," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 8, No. 2 (2007): 240.