Gutkeled (genus)

Gutkeled (spelling variants: Gut-Keled, Guthkeled, Guth-Keled) was the name of a gens (Latin for "clan"; nemzetség in Hungarian) in the Kingdom of Hungary, to which a number of Hungarian noble families belong.

History

The primary source of their origins is the Gesta Hungarorum of Simon of Kéza, in which the author writes:

Sed postea, tempore Petri regis Kelad et Gut intrant tres frateres ex gente Svevorum procreati. De castello Stof sunt nativi.

″But afterwards, during the reign of king Peter, Kelad and Gut three brothers of Swabian descent immigrated. They were born at the castle of Stof.″

The castle "Stof" is assumed to be a corruption of Stauf, meaning either the Staufen Castle in Staufen im Breisgau or the Hohenstaufen Castle in Göppingen. The king mentioned is Péter Orseolo, placing the arrival of the Gutkeleds to Hungary sometime around the 1040s.

Noble families

Some of the Hungarian noble families descending from the Gutkeleds are:

Adonyi
Apagyi
Atyai
Báthory
Benyó
Daróczi
Diószegi
Dobi
Gacsályi
Guthi
Kenézy
Kun
Országs ( Horsák )
Pelbárthidi
Rozsályi
Szemesi
Maróthy
Várdai

Notable members

Vid Gutkeled, King Solomon's chief advisor
Apaj Gutkeled, Ban of Slavonia (1237–1239)
Nicholas I Gutkeled, Ban of Slavonia (1240–1241), killed in the Battle of Mohi
Stephen I Gutkeled, Ban of Slavonia (1248–1260)
Nicholas II Gutkeled, Ban of Slavonia (1278–1279)
Joachim Gutkeled, Ban of Slavonia (died in April 1277)
Stephen II Gutkeled, Judge royal (1278–1279)
Hodos Gutkeled, ispán of Zagreb County (1270–1272)
Amadeus Gutkeled, ispán of Vas (1272–1273, 1275) and Zala counties (1276)

Family trees

Rakamaz branch

N.
- N.
  - Hodos (fl. 1270–1291)
    - Ladislaus (fl. 1291–1310) → Szakolyi (Szokoli) family
    - Lawrence (fl. 1310–1338) → Rakamazi
  - Andrew ("the Bald")
    - Briccius (fl. 1276–1320) ∞ N. Nadabi → Báthory family
    - George (fl. 1276–1307) → Rakamazi de Encsencs
    - Benedict ("the Red"; fl. 1279–1321) → Rakamazi de Szaniszló
    - Catherine (fl. 1270–1311) ∞ Langeus, son of Vajda (d. before 1279)
  - Stephen (fl. 1310)
- N.
  - Felician I
    - Michael (fl. 1310) → Zeleméri family
  - John I
    - Vid (fl. 1310)
    - Dominic (fl. 1310)
    - Felician II (fl. 1310) → Szalmadi family
  - Lucas
    - Felician III (fl. 1310)
    - John II ("the Muth"; fl. 1310)

Amadé branch

Amadeus I ('the Black")
- Lothard I (fl. 1262–1284) ∞ N. Atyusz (fl. +1262)
  - John
    - Amadeus III (fl. 1326–1380) → Amadé de Várkony family
    - Lothard II (fl. 1326–1380) → Várkonyi family
    - Nicholas II (fl. 1326–1376)
    - Stephen (Cletus; fl. 1326–1380) → Bősi family
- Amadeus II (fl. 1272–1276; d. before 1286) ∞ N. (fl. 1286–1332)
  - Nicholas I (fl. 1292–1325†) ∞ N. Monoszló (fl. 1313) → Felsőlendvai family
- Ampud (d. before 1290)
  - Bartholomew (fl. 1292–1325) → Marcaltövi family

Egyedmonostor branch

N.
- N.
  - Cosmas I ("the Great")
    - Cosmas II ("the Lesser"; fl. 1269–1321)
      - Ivánka II (fl. 1307–1312†) → Pelbárthidi family
      - Clara (fl. 1313) ∞ Emeric, son of Ivánka (fl. 1313)
      - Elizabeth (fl. 1308–1313) ∞ Artolf Keresztúri (d. before 1313)
  - Adony
    - Ivánka I (fl. 1278–1325) ∞ married twice → Adonyi (Jankafalvi) family
- N.
  - Dorog
    - Peter I (fl. 1278–1284) → Hadházi family
    - Nicholas (fl. 1278–1304) → Diószegi family
    - Lawrence (fl. 1278–1297) → Dobi family
  - Sem
    - Lucas (fl. 1278)
      - Peter II (fl. 1296)

Sárvármonostor branch

N.
- N.
  - N.
    - Dragun
      - Stephen I (fl. 1242–1260†)
        Nicholas II (fl. 1263–1291) → Majádi
        Ladislaus (fl. 1278–1300)
        
        John (fl. 1278–1300)
        
        Joachim (fl. 1263–1277†) ∞ Maria Romanovna (m. 1269 or 1270)
        Clara (fl. 1322–1337) ∞ Roland Borsa (d. 1301)
        
        Stephen II (fl. 1263–1288; d. before 1291) ∞ unidentified (fl. 1300)
        
        Paul (fl. 1263–1291)
        Nicholas III (fl. 1300–1324) ∞ Barbara Somosi (fl. 1343) → Butkai family
        
        Stephen III (fl. 1300–1343) → Málcai (Márki) family
        
        Vid (fl. 1300–1334) → Ráskai family
        
        daughter
    - Nicholas I
      - Paul I (fl. 1246–1270) → Szilágy sub-branch
        Lothard (fl. 1272–1292)
        Ladislaus I (fl. 1292)
        Ladislaus II (fl. 1318)
        
        James (fl. 1317–1318)
        
        Paul II (fl. 1317–1318)
        
        John (fl. 1317–1318)
        
        Dominic (1282†)
  - N.
    - Apaj I (fl. 1229–1239)
      - Apaj II (fl. 1248–1270)
        Apaj III (fl. 1274–1297)
        Stephen (fl. 1297–1342; d. before 1346)
        
        daughter ∞ Simon Kállai
        
        Ekcs (fl. 1284–1293)
    - Nicholas (fl. 1229–1241†)
      - Andrew I ("the Great"; fl. 1250–1252)
        Andrew II (fl. 1281–1312) → Bacskai (Bocskai) family
    - Csépán
      - Cletus (fl. 1250–1255; d. before 1265) ∞ unidentified (fl. 1265)
        Peter (fl. 1272–1317)
        
        Stephen (fl. 1272–1317) ∞ Elizabeth Szalánci → Bacskai (Anarcsi) family
- N.
  - N.
    - Tiba I
      - Tiba II (fl. 1250–1253)
        Nicholas (fl. 1270–1295)
        Achilles (fl. 1310–1341) → Gacsályi family
        
        Gregory (fl. 1314) → Rozsályi family
        
        Tiba III (fl. 1280–1288)
        Ladislaus (fl. 1313–1322)
        
        Thomas (fl. 1313–1352)
        
        John (fl. 1313–1322)
        
        Peter (fl. 1313–1357) → Atyai (Zajtai, Salánki) family
        
        Michael (fl. 1313–1322) → Apagyi family
  - N.
    - Pelbartus I (fl. 1216–1238) ∞ Ohudalov Tomaj
      - Pelbartus II (fl. 1250–1264; d. before 1280)
    - Michael
      - Ladislaus (fl. 1250)
      - Aladar (fl. 1250–1284)
        Ladislaus (fl. 1284–1315) ∞ Margaret Pelejtei (fl. 1320–1325) → Várdai family
        
        Pelbartus III (fl. 1284–1340; d. before 1341) ∞ Elizabeth Mátyfalvi (d. before 1326)
        
        Elizabeth ∞ Ladislaus Fancsikai
        
        Margaret ∞ Charles Apáti
      - John
        Andrew (fl. 1280)

Notes

↑ Simon Kezai, Lázló Veszprémy, Frank Schaer (ed.), Gesta Hungarorum: The Deeds of the Hungarians (Central European Medieval Texts), Central European University Press 1999. ISBN 963-9116-31-9

External links

One of the Guthkeled coat-of-arms, similar devices were later used by most of the families.

References

Kézai, Simon; Szűcs, Jenő (January 1999). Deeds of the Hungarians. Central European University Press. ISBN 978-963-9116-31-3.

[1] Simon Kezai, Lázló Veszprémy, Frank Schaer (ed.), Gesta Hungarorum: The Deeds of the Hungarians (Central European Medieval Texts), Central European University Press 1999. ISBN 963-9116-31-9