Peter I Csák
| Peter (I) Csák | |
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Seal of Palatine Peter Csák
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| Palatine of Hungary | |
| Reign | 1275–1276 1277 1278 1281 |
| Predecessor |
Nicholas Kőszegi (1st term) Nicholas Kőszegi (2nd term) Denis Péc (3rd term) Finta Aba (4th term) |
| Successor |
Nicholas Kőszegi (1st term) Denis Péc (2nd term) Matthew II Csák (3rd term) Ivan Kőszegi (4th term) |
| Spouse(s) | unknown |
| Issue | |
| Noble family | gens Csák |
| Father | Matthew I |
| Mother | Margaret N |
| Born | c. 1240 |
| Died | 1283 or 1284 |
Peter (I) from the kindred Csák (Hungarian: Csák nembeli (I) Péter; c. 1240 – 1283 or 1284) was a powerful Hungarian baron, landowner and military leader, who held several secular positions during the reign of kings Stephen V and Ladislaus IV. His son and heir was the oligarch Matthew III Csák, who, based on his father and uncles' acquisitions, became the de facto ruler of his domain independently of the king and usurped royal prerogatives on his territories.
He was born into the gens Csák as the youngest son of Matthew I, founder and first member of the Trencsén branch, who served as Master of the treasury (1242–1245), and Margaret from an unidentified noble family. Peter's elder brothers were Mark I, ispán (comes) of Hont County in 1247, but there is no further information about him; Stephen I, Master of the stewards from 1275 to 1276 and from 1276 to 1279; and Matthew II, a notable general and Palatine of Hungary (1278–1280; 1282–1283). He had also a younger sister, who married to the Moravian noble Zdislav Sternberg, a loyal bannerman of the Csák clan. Their son, Stephen Sternberg (or "the Bohemian") later inherited the Csák dominion because of the absence of a direct adult male descendant after the death of Matthew III in 1321.
Peter I married to an unknown noblewoman from an unidentified genus. The marriage produced two children; the eldest one was Matthew III, who inherited his father and uncles' property and large-scale possessions, which laid the foundation of a de facto independent domain, encompassing the north-western counties of the kingdom (today roughly the western half of present-day Slovakia and parts of Northern Hungary). The second son was Csák, who served as bearer of the sword and died around 1300 without heir, leaving the clan heritage solely to his brother's branch.
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