[1] According to historian Gábor Bagi, Szolnok represented the last generation of the royal officials who emerged during the reign of the first Hungarian king Stephen I.

[3] According to historian György Györffy, Stephen I entrusted Szolnok to establish a royal domain towards the end of his reign, in the second wave of the organization of counties sometime between 1018 and 1038.

[4] In contrast, Gyula Kristó considered that Szolnok County was established in the same time when the Diocese of Vác was founded, under the reign of Peter Orseolo, Stephen's successor.

Accordingly, Szolnok built the namesake castle (a type of hillfort) at the confluence of the Tisza and Zagyva rivers, which area was the crossroads of several trade routes.

Its castle folks was first mentioned by the founding charter of Garamszentbenedek Abbey (today Hronský Beňadik, Slovakia) in 1075, the county (or at least an ispánate) already existed at that time.

[5] Based on the narration of the 14th-century Illuminated Chronicle, Szolnok was a devout Christian, who himself baptized people, including his future murderer Murtmur.

Based on Gerard's Deliberatio, historian József Gerics argued that the bishop, like most prelates and nobles, swore loyalty to Samuel Aba.

Consequently, archaeologist Róbert Kertész considered that Szolnok defected from the allegiance of Peter by that time, and was among those lords, who invited the exiled princes Levente and Andrew to the Hungarian throne.

[10] As for ispán Szolnok, he mounted upon his horse, leapt into the Danube, and as he swam a certain man named Murtmur took him into his boat in order to save him from death.

Frightened by these threats, Murtmur killed the ispán in the boat with his sword.By the time the two brothers, Andrew and Levente, decided to return, a pagan revolt had broken out in Hungary.

The jurisdiction of both of them (the Diocese of Csanád and the County of Szolnok, respectively) bordered on the territory of Vata around Békés, whose power they threatened both on the ecclesiastical and secular side from the south and northwest.