King Bela I

  General Notes:

Bela the Holy, died 1063. King of Hungary 1061-63. He married Richenza, daughter of Mieczyslaw II, born 990, died 1034, King of Poland, and his wife Richenza, daughter of Ehrenfeld, Palatine of the Rhin and Matilda, daughter of Emperor Otto II. (Mieczyslaw II was son of Boleslaw I, son of Mieczyslaw I, the first Christian Duke of Poland and with whom opens the authentic history of Poland and who is entitled to the remembrance of posterity, not merely from his being the first Christian ruler of Poland, but from the success with which he abolished paganism and enforced the observance of the new faith in his dominions. He who could effect so important a revolution without bloodshed must have been no common character.

  Noted events in his life were:

� He worked as a King Of Hungary.

Bela married Princess Richenza, daughter of UNKNOWN and UNKNOWN. (Princess Richenza was born in 1018 and died in 1052.)