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408:, Byzantine Emperor put an end to the existence of Bulgarian state (996-1004, 1014–1018). Gerics claimed that Vazul and Tatun were still pagan at the time of their marriage, and that is the reason that the Hungarian chronicles declared that Andrew, Béla, and Levente, the sons of Duke Vazul, were not born of a true marriage-bed. Gerics also claimed that Tatun might have participated in the riot of
283:, Vazul bitterly resented his omission, but he was blinded on King Stephen's order. According to the contrasting reports of later Hungarian chronicles, written under kings descending from Vazul's line, Stephen initially was planning to nominate Vazul as his heir, but Vazul's enemies, including Stephen's queen,
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Information on Vazul's family is contradictory. Later
Hungarian chronicles tended to hide that the kings reigning after 1046 descended from a prince who was disinherited and sentenced by the holy first king of Hungary. Accordingly, many of the chronicles write that Vazul's brother, Ladislas the Bald,
273:, the only son of King Stephen who survived infancy died in a hunting accident in 1031. Although Vazul who was Stephen's closest agnatic relative had the strongest claim to succeed him on the throne, the king disregarded him and nominated his own sister's son,
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sent messengers in haste to have his uncle's son Vazul brought from prison in Nitra, in order to make him king of the
Hungarians after himself. However, as soon as Queen Gisela got wind of this she hatched a plot with a group of traitors, and sent
261:; he was imprisoned at his former seat when King Stephen I of Hungary occupied his duchy in 1031. The theory that the "Duchy of Nyitra" was under Polish suzerainty in the first decades of the 11th century, which is based on the
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from Tatun. Of a certainty this is a false and most evil tale. Not for this reason are they nobles, but because they are the sons of
Ladislas the Bald, who is said to have taken a wife from
412:, and subsequently lost their noble status. For this reason the Hungarian chronicles declared that the sons of Vazul derived their nobility from their father, not their mother.
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writes that Vazul's wife was a member of the Tátony clan, but his marriage lacked legitimacy. His three sons were expelled from
Hungary after Vazul's death in 1031 or 1032.
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were the sons of Duke Vazul by some girl from the clan of Tatun and were not born of a true marriage-bed, and that through this conjunction they derived their
400:". According to Györffy, a girl from the kindred Tatun was the daughter of Tatun, the wife of Kean (mentioned in the Hungarian chronicles), i. e. the
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hatched a plot to hinder the king's plans. They sent an "evil man" to Nyitra who "put out Vazul's eyes and filled the
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Sebus ahead of the messenger. Sebus had Vazul's eyes put out and molten lead poured into his ears; he then fled to
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245:(Nitra, Slovakia) in order to urge him to "amend his youthful frivolity and folly". In contrast with Györffy, his
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1429:(in Hungarian). Akadémiai Kiadó. p. 659.
1425:Korai magyar történeti lexikon (9-14. század)
965:**A Khazar, Pecheneg or Volga Bulgarian lady.
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1247:(ch. 2.44), pp. 105–107.
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322:The Deeds of the Hungarians
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202:who reigned after 1046.
1446:Az Árpád-ház uralkodói
630:a Bulgarian princess***
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1105:(ch. 45.69), p. 107.
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289:cavities of his ears
259:Mieszko II of Poland
188:Stephen I of Hungary
1551:10th-century births
1486:Slovakia in History
1374:Engel, Pál (2001).
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1175:, pp. 168–169.
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210:Vazul was a son of
122:Andrew I of Hungary
1541:Hungarian nobility
974:Cometopuli dynasty
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220:Samuel of Bulgaria
1501:978-0-521-80253-6
1367:Secondary sources
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280:Annals of Altaich
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