The longer version of the Life of Saint Stephen, King of Hungary (Latin: Legenda maior S. Stephani regis) is one of the three hagiographies of Saint Stephen, who was crowned the first King of Hungary in 1000 or 1001.
[2] However, the text of the legend is unfinished because its four original copies break off at the same point.
[2] The same manuscripts also contain the shorter version of King Saint Stephen's Life.
[2] In chapter 15, the author of the legend also mentioned and quoted the Admonitions that he attributed to the saintly king.
[2] The writer also knew the Lives of the Holy Hermits Zoerard the Confessor and Benedict the Martyr which was written around 1064 by Maurus, Bishop of Pécs.