Pousa Bár-Kalán

Pousa Bár-Kalán
Judge royal
Reign	1222
Predecessor	Bánk Bár-Kalán
Successor	Lawrence Atyusz
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth Győr
Issue Nana II
Noble family	gens Bár-Kalán
Father	Nana I
Died	between 1222 and 1255

Pousa from the kindred Bár-Kalán (Hungarian: Bár-Kalán nembeli Pósa; died between 1222 and 1255) was a Hungarian noble, who served as Judge royal for a short time in 1222, during the reign of Andrew II of Hungary.^[1]

He belonged to the Sáp branch of the gens Bár-Kalán as the son of Nana I. Possibly he had two brothers, Peter and Gregory. Pousa married first to Elizabeth from the Győr kindred, a daughter of Palatine Pat Győr. They had a son, Nana II, and a daughter.^[2] Pousa's second wife was an unidentified daughter of Héder II Héder, they had two children.^[3]

Historian Mór Wertner identified him a certain Pousa, who served as Ban of Slavonia in 1216. Soon he was replaced by his distant relative Bánk Bár-Kalán.^[4] As formerly he was a loyal supporter of King Emeric, his baronial league came to the fore, when the nobles forced Andrew II to issue the Golden Bull of 1222.^[3] He was elected Judge royal, beside that he also functioned as ispán of Borsod and Csanád Counties.^[5] However soon Pousa and other Emeric-partisan lords had lost their influence, he was replaced by Lawrence Atyusz as Judge royal and his career ended. Pousa died sometime between 1222 and 15 March 1255.^[3]

References

1. Zsoldos 2011, p. 29.
2. Engel: Genealógia (Genus Bár-Kalán, Sáp branch)
3. Markó 2006, p. 270.
4. Zsoldos 2011, p. 43.
5. Zsoldos 2011, p. 347.

Sources

• Markó, László (2006). A magyar állam főméltóságai Szent Istvántól napjainkig: Életrajzi Lexikon [Great Officers of State in Hungary from King Saint Stephen to Our Days: A Biographical Encyclopedia] (in Hungarian). Magyar Könyklub. ISBN 963-547-085-1.
• Zsoldos, Attila (2011). Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1000–1301 [Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1000–1301] (in Hungarian). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. ISBN 978-963-9627-38-3.