Thomas Monoszló
Thomas I Monoszló (Tamás nembeli) was a Hungarian noble who served as Ban of Slavonia from 1228 to 1229 and died before 1237. He came from the gens Monoszló, the son of Macarius I, ispán of Szolnok (1192–1193), and a daughter of Peter Győr of the Szenterzsébet branch. He had two brothers, Nicholas I and Stephen I, who were not major political figures. He and his wife had at least six children: Gregory II (ispán of Krassó ca. 1255; father of Egidius II, Gregory III and Peter II), Thomas II (ancestor of the Csupor family), Nabut (who married James Héder and was alive in 1283), and four daughters.
Thomas was a longtime supporter of Duke Andrew. He was captured with Andrew near Varaždin in 1203 during a failed rebellion against King Emeric, and they were released in 1204 after Andrew became king in 1205. Thomas was made a royal knight and fought in campaigns against the Principality of Halych. He remained loyal to Andrew II during the king’s absence in the Fifth Crusade (1217–1218). In 1221 he served as ispán of Valkó County.
From 1228 to 1229 he was Ban of Slavonia. For his service he received lands in Bács, Csanád and Valkó Counties and a valuable fishpond in Zagreb, along with permission to trade salt from the Maros using six riverboats three times a year. In 1231 he separated his lands from the Monoszló kindred. He died before 1237, by which time his four daughters were still unmarried.
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