Several historians incorrectly identified him with Stephen, the archdeacon of Gyulafehérvár (today Alba Iulia, Romania), who studied in the University of Padua and served as the last vice-chancellor of Andrew III of Hungary until 1301.
[2] Historian György Rácz considered this Stephen was a Bohemian cleric and came to Hungary in the accompaniment of the young Wenceslaus in August 1301.
His name first appears in Hungarian contemporary records in November 1301, when resided in Buda Castle and was among those clerics, who testified that a lawsuit postposed between the Diocese of Veszprém and the Knights Hospitaller of Esztergom.
[3] After Jan Muskata returned to Bohemia in early 1302, Stephen succeeded him as Wenceslaus' vice-chancellor.
[2] He formulated that royal charter, in which Wenceslaus granted whole Nyitra County to the powerful oligarch Matthew Csák.