Tibold (genus)
The namesake founder of the kindred, Theobald arrived from the Kingdom of Germany in the late 10th century, during the reign of Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians.
[4] Another chronicler Simon of Kéza, who compiled his work Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum in the early 1280s, provides more and slightly different details about the origin of the kindred.
Accordingly, the ancestor of the kindred was a certain "Count Theobald of Fanberg", who was invited to Hungary by Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians in the late 10th century.
He considered that Theobald was among those Bavarian lords and knights, who arrived to Hungary in the accompaniment of Queen Gisela of Bavaria, the spouse of the future Hungarian king Stephen around 996.
[9] According to Bálint Hóman, Theobald participated in the civil war between Stephen and Koppány for the Hungarian throne in 997 and 998, alongside other members of the German entourage of Gisela.
For his military service during the struggle, Theobald was granted landholdings in the southern part of the emerging Somogy County, along the river Drava, by Stephen I.
Archaeologist Kálmán Magyar considered that Theobald possessed sporadic lands also in the interior areas of the county, and the town Tab is named after him, where he plausibly built a fortified manor.
[10] Several historians – for instance, Bálint Hóman, Elemér Mályusz and György Györffy argued that certain Tietpaldus comes, who appears in the account of Berthold of Reichenau as an influential courtier of King Andrew I of Hungary in 1060, belonged to the Tibold clan and he was a son or grandson of its namesake founder.
[12] Two members of the kindred – Grab and Theobald (possibly father and son)[13] – served as ispáns of Somogy County at the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries (c. 1090 and 1111–1113, respectively).
[19] Around 1093 or 1094, Grab founded a Benedictine monastery in Garáb in Syrmia County (present-day Grabovo, Serbia), dedicated to Margaret the Virgin.
Presumably in the 12th century, members of the Tibold kindred erected another Benedictine monastery in Béla (today Bijela, Croatia), dedicated to Margaret too.
The eldest brothers – James, Cosmas and Petke – were granted the ancient seat Babócsa, in addition to Tarnóca (today a borough of Barcs), Szedereg, Komlósd, Péterhida, Décse, Domján, Vajon, Rozmen, Ruszen, Bolhó, Nagykaszó and Kiskaszó in Somogy County.
They also acquired the lordship along the river Toplica near present-day Daruvar in Križevci County in Slavonia, together with the villages Bük, Csaba, István and Doboka along Drava.
[19] The younger sons – Thomas, Budur and Theobald – received the lordship of Lábod, which consisted of fourteen settlements in the southern part of Somogy County.
Prior to the Mongol invasion of Hungary, they erected a 30x35 m motte-and-bailey castle on the bank of Rinya in their main estate Babócsa.
[22] James and Petke were referred to as patrons of Garáb Abbey in 1234, when sold the estate Szélborona (Zelbarouna), which was situated on the southwestern slopes of the Papuk mountain, to Ivánka Zsadány.
The abbot complained that Ivánka seized the estate by force, but Ugrin Csák, Archbishop of Kalocsa validated the sale after the brothers' testimony.
[6] After Béla IV ascended the Hungarian throne in 1235, James was involved in that investigation committee led by Bartholomew, Bishop of Veszprém in 1236–1237, which supervised and sometimes overruled previous land grants occurred in Somogy County, among others.
Accordingly, Zerje and Demetrius (II) were granted Som and Kapurév (today a borough of Szabadhídvég) with its river port in the northeastern part of Somogy County, while Nicholas (I), John (I) and Denis received Lesnek (Sloboština, present-day a borough of Brestovac), Cirkvena and Koseth, the villages surrounding the Szencse lordship in Križevci County, which further deepened the separation of the Hungarian and Slavonian branches from each other.
[25] Tamás Pálosfalvi argued that Petke was given no portion in Szencse lordship during the division of estates in 1231, while Mihalc's descendants were landowners there.
[27] Together with his brother Nicholas, Paul took part in the siege of Sjenićak (Sztenicsnyák) in the autumn of 1327, when Mikcs captured the castle from the rebellious Babonić family.
[26] Prior to 1332, Paul turned against Charles for unknown reasons and barricaded himself into the fort of Stupčanica, where from he constantly plundered the region and committed "innumerable sorts of evil" to the detriment of the king's supporters, until his capture and ultimate death in prison in 1330 or 1331.
[21] Their cousin John (III) took a different path; he was imprisoned by the king for unknown reasons and was obliged to pledge some of his lands in Somogy County to pay his ransom in 1326.
