[3] Farkas first appears in contemporary records around 1156, when acted as pristaldus (royal bailiff) during the process, when Géza II of Hungary donated the estates Locsmánd, Gyirót and Sarud in Sopron County (present-day Lutzmannsburg, Kroatisch Geresdorf and Frankenau in Austria, respectively) to German knights Gottfried and Albert, ancestors of the Frankói family.
[6] He is first mentioned in this capacity, when he interceded with the king so that a certain Caba, who had no male heirs, could leave his estates, vineyards, slaves and livestock to the Pannonhalma Abbey in his last will and testament.
[4] Following the death of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos in September 1180, Béla III launched a campaign in order to restore the Hungarian suzerainty in Dalmatia.
[7] Returning Hungary in 1181, Farkas judged over some serfs, who escaped from Cégény Abbey, also known as the Monastery of the Virgin Mary along the river Szamos (Someș), to neighboring lords.
[8] In the same year, Farkas bought the estate Szeles (or Szőlős) in Baranya County from lady Froa, the widow of provost Marcellus, for 120 marks (the manor and its surrounding landholdings laid in the territory of present-day Pécsudvard).