Kakas Rátót

Kakas (also Kokas or Kokos) was born into the prestigious and influential gens (clan) Rátót, as the son of Stephen I ("the Porc"), who was a strong confidant of Queen Elizabeth the Cuman and held several offices in her court since 1265.

[6] After the death of Andrew III and the extinction of the Árpád dynasty in 1301, he supported the claim of the twelve-year-old Wenceslaus of Přemyslid in the emerging civil war, alongside the other members of his clan.

His father, the Bohemian king Wenceslaus II met the Hungarian envoys in Hodonín in early August and accepted their offer in his son's name.

When Wenceslaus II accompanied his son to Hungary, and encamped at Kočín on 12 August, he issued a royal charter, in which – without any legal basis – he donated the village of Várkony in Szolnok County to Kakas for his loyal service.

When Charles made an alliance with his cousin Rudolph III of Austria against Bohemia, in Pressburg (now Bratislava in Slovakia) on 24 August, Kakas was also present as one of his supporters.

[12] Kakas bravely fought against the troops of Matthew Csák in the 1300s, when the powerful oligarch threatened the Rátóts' domain in Nógrád County.

Charles I commemorated his loyal soldier with a warm heart even in 1323, and forbade all judicial courts to judge him, or his son John, or even his offspring, for any injustice and domination committed by them.