Coloman, King of Hungary
King of Hungary (1095-1116) · Hungary · On the map · Historical Figures · Lived 1070 to 1116 · aged 46
A medieval Hungarian king who was schooled for the priesthood because of his hunchback and near-blindness, then seized the throne anyway and spent two decades dodging his brother's coups - ending the cycle by having the brother and nephew blinded.
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Coloman was pushed toward the church as a boy after his father Géza I died in 1077; his uncle Ladislaus I took the throne and groomed the younger, able-bodied brother Álmos as heir. By the early 1090s Coloman had been made a bishop. When Ladislaus named Álmos his successor in 1095, Coloman fled - then returned the moment his uncle died that July and took the crown himself. He gave Álmos a duchy to keep the peace. In 1096 he let the main Crusader armies pass through Hungary but annihilated the bands that pillaged his land. A year later he invaded Croatia, killed its last native king Petar Snačić, and added that crown in 1102. Álmos tried at least five times to overthrow him; Coloman finally seized the duchy around 1107 and had both Álmos and his young son Béla blinded circa 1114. The chronicles written under their descendants call him bloodthirsty; a contemporary called him the most learned king of his age. His legal decrees stood unaltered for over a century.
