Peter Orseolo, "the Venetian" king of Hungary

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Orseolo_of_Hungary
Peter I the Venetian (Hungarian: I. (Velencei) Péter; c. 1010-1015 – 1046 or 30 August 1059)

-http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Orseolo_d'Ungheria
Pietro Orseolo (Venezia, 1011 – Székesfehérvár, 1058)

-http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Péter_magyar_király
Péter, vagy Orseolo Péter, (Velence, 1011 – Székesfehérvár, 1046 vagy 1059. augusztus 30.)

-http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HUNGARY.htm#PeterI
1. PIETRO Orseolo ([Venice] [1010/15]- Székesfehérvár [30 Aug] [1060], bur Pécs, St Peter's Cathedral). Herimannus names "Petrum, sororis suæ [=Stephanus Ungariorum rex] filium, de Venetia natum" when recording his accession in 1038[348]. His maternal uncle declared him as heir to the throne of Hungary in 1037. He succeeded in 1038 as PÉTER King of Hungary. According to the Gesta Hungarorum, "regina…Kysla consilio iniquorum" installed "Petrum Venetum filium sororis suæ…cuius pater dux fuerat Venetorum" as king after her husband's death[349]. The Gesta states that King Péter treated "the nobles…with contempt and [devoured] the wealth of the land with a proud eye and an insatiable heart…and behaved with shameful and unbridled lust and that he was deposed in the third year of his reign" in favour of "comitem…Aba, sororium sancti regis Stephani"[350]. The Chronicon Posoniense records that "Petrus rex" was expelled in 1041 and replaced by "Abba"[351]. The Annalium Hildesheimensium records that King Péter was expelled and fled to Heinrich III King of Germany, while the Hungarians chose "Ovonem" as king[352]. King Péter was restored in 1044 with the help of the German king, whose troops invaded Hungary and defeated King Sámuel at Ménfö near Györ. The Gesta records that the Germans invaded Hungary and defeated King Aba at Ménfő, after which the latter fled towards the river Tisza and was strangled "in an old storeroom"[353]. The Chronicon Posoniense records that "Abba rex" was killed in 1044 and that "Petrus rex" was restored[354]. King Peter was obliged to swear allegiance to King Heinrich in 1045 which, combined with the arrival of increasing numbers of foreign advisers, did nothing to improve his popularity. The Gesta Hungarorum records a national revolt against King Péter after the return to Hungary of his cousins András and Levante, the slaughter of "Teutonicos et Latinos…præpositi…et abates" (implying that the revolt may have been pagan inspired), King Péter's flight to Moson, his arrest at a village near Székesfehérvár, his having survived being blinded, and his burial at Pécs[355]. The Chronicon Posoniense records that "Petrus rex" was blinded in 1047 and succeeded by "Andreas rex"[356]. The Annales Altahenses record the rebellion against King Péter and his being blinded[357]. According to the Hildesheim Annals, he was expelled from the country after he was blinded[358]. The Annales Magdeburgenses also record the expulsion of "Petrus Ungarariorum rex" after being captured and blinded[359]. The Annales Capituli Cracoviensis record the death of "Petrus rex Hungarie" in 1060[360]. The necrology of Regensburg St Emmeran records the death "III Kal Sep" of "Petrus Ungariorum rex" but does not mention the year[361]. It is hard to be certain about the year of King Péter's death. It does not appear, from the sources cited above, that he succumbed when he was blinded, although the Annales Altahenses are silent on the point. Apart from the report of his death in the Annales Cracoviensis, the only subsequent reference to ex-king Péter is the Annalista Saxo's record of his second marriage (see below) which, if correct, must have taken place after Jan 1055. The difficulty is the record of his burial in Hungary contained in the Gesta. Burial in his home country is consistent with his death soon after being blinded. It is difficult to imagine the authorities having arranged his body's repatriation for burial in Hungary after years of ignominious exile.

m [firstly] TUTA [von Formbach, daughter of HEINRICH [Hesso] I Graf & his wife Himiltrud ---] (-14 Mar [after 1070]). "Tuta von Formbach" is shown as the wife of Péter King of Hungary in Europäische Stammtafeln[362]. .. ... .... .... ..... ...... ........ .........

m [secondly] (Apr 1055) as her second husband, JUDITH von Schweinfurt, widow of BŘETISLAV I Duke of the Bohemians, daughter of HEINRICH von Schweinfurt Markgraf auf dem Nordgau & his wife Gerberga [von Gleisberg] ([1010/15]-2 Aug 1058, bur Prague St Veit). According to the Annalista Saxo, Judith was expelled from Bohemia by her son Duke Spytihnĕv after his father's death and married "Petri regi Ungariorum" to spite her son[371]. The marriage is not mentioned in Wegener, although he refers cryptically to "Lui von Frizberg, I. Tuta Regina. II. Judith von Schweinfurt"[372].

GEDCOM Note

Category:Kings of Hungary

Biography

{{Succession box
| title = King of Hungary
| years = 15 August 1038-September 1041
| preceded-text = Following
| before = István I
| succeeded-text = Followed by
| after = Sámuel Aba
}}
{{Succession box
| title = King of Hungary
| years = 5 July 1044-30 August 1046
| preceded-text = Following
| before = Sámuel Aba
| succeeded-text = Followed by
| after = András I
}}
Peter was born in 1010 or 1011. He was the son of Otto Orseolo and M%C3%A1ria Arpadhazi. He passed away in 1046 or in the late 1050s.

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