Nicholas Geregye

Nicholas Geregye
Judge royal
Reign	1275
Predecessor	Thomas Hont-Pázmány
Successor	Ugrin Csák
Noble family	gens Geregye
Father	Paul
Mother	N Győr
Born	?
Died	after 1279

Nicholas from the kindred Geregye (Hungarian: Geregye nembeli Miklós; died after 1279) was a Hungarian baron and landowner, member of the gens Geregye, who held several positions.

He was the son of judge royal Paul (d. before 1271) and an unidentified mother from the Győr clan, who was a daughter of palatine Pat Győr. He had three brothers – Stephen, Geregye II, Eth II – and a sister, Agnes who married Turul Nagymihályi and after her husband's death, she joined to the monastery at Margaret Island. Nicholas' grandfather was voivode Eth I. There is no information about Nicholas' any wives or descendants.

Nicholas functioned as voivode of Transylvania between 1267 and 1268, during the end of the reign of Béla IV (it is presumable, he held the dignity uninterruptedly from 1264 to 1270). He supported the king in the civil war conflict between father and son, duke Stephen, thus when the latter ascended the throne in 1270, Nicholas, along with several magnates, fled the country and placed himself under the protection of Ottokar II. The Bohemian king also received the Dobronya Castle at Dobróváralja, Upper Hungary (today Podzámčok, Slovakia) by Nicholas. He participated in Ottokar's campaign against Hungary in 1271, when Nicholas besieged and occupied the Nyitra Castle and came through on the Garam River. After the peace treaty between Stephen V and Ottokar II (1271), he returned to Hungary, however he regained his former political influence only after the death of king Stephen V in 1272.

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