Štefan I. a Boleslav Chrabrý. Obsadenie časti Uhorska podľa Galla Anonyma a Uhorsko-poľskej kroniky* (Prvá časť)
Stephen I of Hungary and Bolesław I the Brave. Occupation of the Northern Part of the Kingdom of Hungary according to Gallus Anonymus and the Hungarian-Polish Chronicle (Part One)

Summary/Abstract: Gallus Anonymus, The Hungarian-Polish Chronicle and some Poles’annals mention that Bolesław I the Brave defeated Hungarians and occupied their land down to the Danube. The Hungarian-Polish Chronicle is the only medieval source that mentions the meeting of Hungarian king Stephan I and Polish prince Bolesław near Esztergom. The meeting was preceded by the war in which Stephan lost and Bolesław won and so Bolesław was supposed to take over the area around Nitra. The war between Stephan and Bolesław was not a mere coincidence. Bolesław must have had a reason to invade the northwestern part of the Kingdom of Hungary. Bolesław could not occupy the that part of Hungarian Kingdom before the year 1000 as he was not interested in the area in the south from his land at that time. He could not overtake that part neither in the year 1000 or 1001. Boleslaw was able to expand his realm only after a political change after the death of Otto III in 1002. In the year 1003, after internal dynastic disagreements of the Przemyslids, Bolesław took over Czech and Moravian area. As he did in Czech area (Vladivoj, Soběslav), Bolesław engaged a man accepted by local nobility in the northwestern part of the Kingdom of Hungary to be able to control it better. The chosen person was called Ladislav the Bald and belonged to the Árpáds. He might resided at Piast court and was prince Michal’s older son. The only information about Ladislav’s rule in northwestern Hungarian Kingdom, overtaken by Bolesław at the beginning of the 11th century, may be found in Wielkopolska Chronicle.

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