Finta Aba

Finta Aba
Palatine of Hungary
Reign	1280–1281
Predecessor	Matthew Csák
Successor	Peter Csák
Spouse(s)	unknown
Issue Klara
Noble family	gens Aba
Father	David I
Died	1287

Finta from the kindred Aba (Hungarian: Aba nembeli Finta; died 1287) was a Hungarian lord in the Kingdom of Hungary, who served as Palatine of Hungary from 1280 to 1281. He is best known for capturing King Ladislaus IV of Hungary in early 1280.

Finta was born into the Széplak branch of the prestigious and fairly extended Aba kindred as the son of ispán David Aba. He also had at least three siblings: Palatine Amadeus Aba, who became a powerful oligarch at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries, Judge royal Peter Aba and a sister who engaged to Simon Kacsics in 1290. Finta had a daughter, Klara who married to Julius III Kán, ispán of Baranya County (also known as Julius Siklósi) and died before 1300.

In 1277–1278, when declared to be of age, Ladislaus IV of Hungary successfully defeated and eliminated the aspirations of power of Roland, son of Mark and the entire Geregye clan led by former Voivode Nicholas Geregye and ispán Geregye II Geregye. The latter one was executed for high treason before September 1278. This was the first time when the central royal power participated actively in dismantling of a local authority following the anarchic situation since 1272. Finta took a major role in the fights against the Geregyes as a result he was donated the whole Ung County by King Ladislaus IV later in 1279. Although the king's expedition against the Kőszegi family was unsuccessful, the major opponent Csák clan compromised with the Gutkeleds (Joachim Gutkeled was killed not long before) who immediately broke the alliance with the Kőszegis in the summer of 1278.

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