István Báncsa
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His Eminence Stephen Báncsa |
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| Roman Catholic Cardinal Archbishop of Esztergom |
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Stephen Báncsa in 1255
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| Province | Esztergom |
| See | Esztergom |
| Appointed | 14 August 1242 |
| Installed | 7 July 1243 |
| Term ended | 1252 |
| Predecessor | Matthias Rátót |
| Successor | Benedict II |
| Other posts | Cardinal Bishop of Praeneste |
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| Created Cardinal | December 1251 |
| Rank | Cardinal-Bishop |
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| Born | c. 1205 |
| Died | 9 July 1270 Rome |
| Buried | Santa Balbina |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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Stephen (I) Báncsa (Hungarian: Báncsa (I.) István, Latin: Stephanus de Bancha; died July 9, 1270) was the first Hungarian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Prior to that, he served as Bishop of Vác from 1240 or 1241 to 1243, then Archbishop of Esztergom from 1242 until his creation as cardinal.
He was born around 1205 as a descendant of the gens (clan) Báncsa, an original settler family from Bács County (today Bač, Serbia). His father was Orbász I (or Vrbas), who was mentioned as comes in 1213, according to historian János Karácsonyi. He was buried in the lobby of the St. Adalbert Cathedral in Esztergom. It is possible that he is identical with that certain Orbász, who served as ispán of Komárom County in 1216. Stephen mentioned his father only once in a charter of 1252, which narrates he was involved in a lawsuit in early 1240s in the case of ownership right over the estate Urkuta against Györk Atyusz, son of Ban Atyusz III Atyusz. Accordingly, Stephen had established a mass-endowment for his late father's spiritual salvation and financed its operation from the income of Urkuta, while its lawfulness was denied by Györk and his patron Benedict, Archbishop of Kalocsa.
Stephen had at least two brothers: Vincent (Bencenc) was mentioned as ispán of Esztergom County in 1244 (same time, when Stephen functioned as archbishop), who married an unidentified daughter of Keled Kórógyi. Their two sons were Stephen II, also a royal chancellor and Archbishop of Kalocsa from 1266 to 1278, who entered ecclesiastical career under the influence of his uncle Cardinal Stephen Báncsa, and Kilit (fl. 1278), who married a daughter of Michael Rosd. Stephen and Vincent also had a younger brother Peter, who had two sons Orbász II, provost of Pozsega (today Požega, Croatia) then chancellor for Dowager Queen Elizabeth the Cuman. He was the first Hungarian to obtain a doctorate from the University of Padua (1264). Peter's other son was Thomas, ancestor of the late 14th-century powerful Horvat (or Horváti) family through his only son Paul. It is possible that Stephen also had another (unidentified) brother, who might be was the father of his two nephews, Carulus (canon of Veszprém, then Esztergom) and John (dean of Győr, Zala, then chaplain for Cardinal Báncsa).
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