Buzád Hahót

The Blessed Buzád Hahót, O.P.
Religious and martyr
Born	c. 1180
Died	April 1241 Pest, Kingdom of Hungary
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church (Hungary & the Dominican Order)
Feast	13 November
Patronage	Politicians

Buzád II Hahót
Ban of Severin
Seal of Buzád II Hahót, before 1232
Reign	1226–c. 1232
Successor	Lucas
Noble family	gens Hahót
Issue Buzád III, Csák I, Tristan & Lancelot Hahót
Father	Buzád I

Buzád II Hahót, O.P., (Hungarian: Hahót nembeli (II.) Buzád; c. 1180 – April 1241) was a Hungarian nobleman, the first known Ban of Severin. He later gave up his position in society and entered the Dominican Order.

Buzád was killed during a Mongol invasion of his homeland, and is now honored as a martyr by the Catholic Church, for which he has been beatified.

[...] They are sprung from the counts of Orlamund. The first to come was called Hadolch, whose son was called by the like name of Hadolch and also Arnold. From them sprang Banus Buzad. The people of this country could not pronounce Hadolch, and so he was called by the similar name of Hohold. [...]

Buzád was born into the Buzád branch of the Hahót clan, the son of Buzád I (died 1192). According to magister Ákos, the founder of the Hahót kindred was Buzád's grandfather, a certain German knight Hahold I, who himself was a descendant of the Counts of Weimar-Orlamünde and settled down in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1163 upon the invitation of Stephen III of Hungary to fight against his usurper uncle Stephen IV of Hungary and his allies, the Csáks. Buzád's brother was Arnold I (died c. 1234), who erected the family monastery at Hahót. Buzád had four sons from his unidentified wife: Buzád III (his presumptive heir, who, however, predeceased his father around November 1239), Csák I, Voivode of Transylvania, Tristan and Lancelot.