Stephen V of Hungary King of Hungary [8356] ²⁴

  General Notes:

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  Noted events in his life were:

• Crowned: Junior King, 1246. In 1246 Stephen was crowned as junior King and his father entrusted him with the government of Croatia , Slavonia and Dalmatia , but the three provinces were de facto governed by the Ban Stephen Gut-Keled .

• Acceded: Duke of Transylvania, 1258. In 1257, Stephen demanded that his father divide the kingdom between themselves and recruited an army against the senior king. Finally, in 1258, King Béla IV was obliged to cede to his son the government of Transylvania , with the title duke .

• Acceded: Duke of Styria, 1258. Stephen took part in his father's military campaign against the Styrians, who had rebelled against the rule of the King of Hungary , in 1258. After the successful campaign, King Béla IV appointed him to Duke of Styria .
His government, however, was unpopular among his new subjects, who rebelled against him with the support of King Ottokar II of Bohemia . Stephen and his father started an attack against Ottokar's lands, but their troops were defeated on 12 July 1260 in the Battle of Kroissenbrunn . Following the battle, the two Kings of Hungary ceded the Duchy of Styria to the King of Bohemia in the Peace of Pressburg .

• Acceded: King of Hungary, 1270. was King of Hungary from 1270 to 1272

Stephen married Elizabeth the Cuman [8357] [MRIN: 3425], daughter of Kuthen of Kumanien Khan of Kumanien (Cumania) [8358] and Galicie of Halicz [46573], about 1253. (Elizabeth the Cuman [8357] died after 1290.)

  Marriage Notes:

Stephen's father, attempting to bind the powerful but pagan Cuman tribes more closely to the dynasty , arranged for Stephen's marriage, as a youth (about 1253), to Elizabeth, the daughter of a Cuman chieftain Köten .