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Despite his humble origins Gregory had by the end of his career, made himself one of the half-dozen or so leading men of the county. 28 Origins of the Hungarian Nobility 35 In the course of their advance, both the mighty Babonic´ kindred and the humbler Gregory Iharosfi supported the ruler in his wars and were accordingly rewarded. Nevertheless, their relationship to the king was seldom personal and even less ‘familial’, but was mediated instead by office-holding and by legal instruments attesting to rights.

Since cousins and other close relatives held in common the land which had been passed down through the family, it made sense to recognize in this way their collective right to inheritance. The second category of land, royal donation, was usually made in recognition of an individual’s services. These lands had circumscribed rights of inheritability. They might pass either from father to son or, in default of immediate heirs, to the brother of the deceased. In the event, 26 Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungary however, of the dead man having no immediate family, the donated property reverted to the king.

By the twelfth century, 80 per cent of free women held Christian names. Even among serving girls, pagan female names which often recalled furry animals, flowers or motherhood, were steadily replaced by more suitable references. 15 Conversion completed the transformation of Hungarian society already underway at the time of the conquest. In place of pagan rulership came a new ideology which exalted the prince as defender of the faith and ‘rector of the people of Christ’. Together with the sanctification of King Ladislas at the end of the twelfth century, the promotion of Stephen to sainthood in the 1080s imbued the ruling dynasty with an invincible aura of prestige.

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