Matthias Rátót

Matthias Rátót
Archbishop of Esztergom
Archdiocese Esztergom
Installed November 1239
Term ended April 11, 1241
Predecessor Robert
Successor István Báncsa
Personal details
Born c. 1200
Died April 11, 1241
Muhi, Kingdom of Hungary
Nationality Hungarian
Denomination Catholic

Matthias of Esztergom or Matthias Rátót (Hungarian: Rátót nembéli Mátyás; died April 11, 1241) was Archbishop of Esztergom in Hungary until his death at the Battle of Mohi (Sajó River). As archbishop of Esztergom, he was the primate of Hungary.

Matthias of Esztergom 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 Nyitra among them) as they were leading troops against Batu Khan.[2]

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.
Political offices
Preceded by
Ugrin Csák
Chancellor
1235–1236
Succeeded by
Stephen Báncsa
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Briccius
Bishop of Vác
1238–1240
Succeeded by
Stephen Báncsa
Preceded by
Robert
Archbishop of Esztergom
1239–1241
Succeeded by
Stephen Báncsa
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