[4] Modern historians – since the research of Péter Váczy – agree that the latter report is more reliable[4] and unanimously write that Levente was born to Vazul and his concubine from the Tátony clan.
Later historians, e.g. Bálint Hóman, Emma Bartoniek, György Györffy, Gyula Kristó and Márta Font, refer to an entry in the Illuminated Chronicle regarding the renunciation his claim to the throne and in accordance with the traditional principle of seniority, while arguing in favor of Levente as the oldest of the three.
[7] They left Bohemia, where "their condition of life was poor and mean",[12][13] according to the Illuminated Chronicle, and moved to the court of King Mieszko II of Poland in 1034 at the latest.
[17] The Hungarian lords and prelates preferred a Christian monarch and offered the crown to Andrew,[15] while, as historian Sándor Tóth argues, leaders of the pagan revolt supported the claim of Levente, for he was not baptized, unlike his brothers.
[16][19] Levente died in 1047 and was buried in a village on the Danube which was named after his great-grandfather, Taksony, who was "said to lie in a pagan grave" there, according to the Illuminated Chronicle.