Menumorut

Menumorut or Menumorout (Bulgarian: Меноморут; Hungarian: Ménmarót) was the ruler of the lands between the rivers Mureș, Someș and Tisza at the time of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin around 900, according to the Gesta Hungarorum, a Hungarian chronicle written after 1150 by an unidentified author, referred to as Anonymus. Historians debate whether Menumorut was an actual ruler or a fictional character created by the author, since the Gesta tells of multiple figures, including Menumorut, who are not identified in any other primary sources, and does not name any of the enemies of the invading Hungarians written of in other contemporary accounts of the invasion. According to Anonymus, Menumorut's duchy was populated primarily with Khazars and Székelys, and he acknowledged the suzerainty of the (unnamed) ruling Byzantine Emperor at the time.

For the residential district named after him, see Menumorut, Satu Mare.

In Romanian historiography, the consensus describes Menumorut as one of the three Romanian rulers who attempted to resist the Magyar conquest of the intra-Carpathian regions of present-day Romania. According to the Gesta, the Magyars eventually besieged and seized Menumorut's fortress at Biharia, and forced him to give his daughter in marriage to Zoltán, the son of Árpád, the Grand Prince of the Hungarians. The chronicle states that Menumorut died around 906 and was succeeded by his son-in-law.

Background

Early history of the Magyars

Further information: Gesta Hungarorum

The first page of the sole manuscript preserving the text of the Gesta Hungarorum, the only chronicle which mentions Menumorut

The most important source of the Magyars' early history is a work known as De Administrando Imperio, written by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII around 952.[1] According to the emperor, the Magyars "lived together with" the Khazars "for three years, and fought in alliance"[2] with them for an unspecified time.[3] The text suggests that the Magyars were once subjected to the Khazar Khaganate, the dominant power of the lands between the rivers Dnieper and Volga, but modern historians debate whether their subjection lasted only for a couple of years, as the emperor states, or for a longer period.[3][4] [5] In the same area, three or four local variants of the Saltovo-Mayaki archaeological culture, which represented semi-nomadic groups, emerged in the western regions of the Eurasian steppes in the second half of the 8th century.[6][7]

Internal strife and attacks by neighboring tribes caused the decline of the Khaganate in the early 9th century.[8] The Magyars were among the Khazars' subject peoples who seceded, settling in the Pontic steppes to the north of the Black Sea.[9] According to Emperor Constantine VII, the Kabars, who "were of the race"[10] of the Khazars, also rebelled against the Khaganate and joined the Magyars.[11] This event occurred before 881, because in that year the Magyars and the Kabars invaded East Francia, according to the longer version of the Annals of Salzburg.[12] The Magyars also intervened in a war between Bulgaria and the Byzantine Empire on the latter's behalf in about 894.[13] The Bulgarians formed an alliance with the Pechenegs, who dwelled in the lands east of the Magyars, and they jointly invaded the Pontic steppes and defeated the Magyars, forcing them to move to the Carpathian Basin in search for a new homeland.[14][15]

Their conquest of the Carpathian Basin is the principal subject of the Gesta Hungarorum.[16] The Gesta was written after 1150 by an unidentified author, who is referred to as Anonymus in modern scholars' works.[16][17] He wrote primarily of the Magyars' battles with six local rulers, including Menumorut, who are not named in other annals and chronicles.[18][19] On the other hand, Anonymus did not write of Svatopluk I of Moravia, Luitpold of Bavaria, and other local rulers whose fights with the conquering Magyars were described in late 9th-century or early 10th-century sources.[20]

Crișana on the eve of the Hungarian Conquest

Burial sites unearthed at Valea lui Mihai and other sites along the Ier River containing remains of horses show that the Avars settled in Crișana shortly after their arrival in the Carpathian Basin in 567.[21] However, few belt mounts decorated with griffins and tendrils or other such features of later Avar craftsmanship have been found in the same region.[22] A distinct group of barrow cemeteries, or tumuli—the so-called "Nuşfalau-Someşeni" cemeteries—appeared in the lands bordering on "Late Avar" cemeteries in the 8th century.[23] In contrast with the Avars, who practised inhumation, the populations using these cemeteries cremated their dead.[24] "Nuşfalau-Someşeni" cemeteries show similarities to some in the East Slavic territories, but they yielded items similar to examples unearthed in West Slavic sites and to "Late Avar" belt mounts.[25][26]

The Avars' power collapsed after Charlemagne and his commanders launched a series of campaigns against the western regions of the Carpathian Basin between 788 and 803.[27][28] However, Avar groups survived the destruction of their empire: Regino of Prüm wrote that the Magyars first "roamed the wildernesses of the Pannonians and the Avars"[29] in the Carpathian Basin after their flight from the Pontic steppes.[30][31] According to historian András Róna-Tas, these wildernesses of the Avars (solitudo Avarorum) were situated in the plains along the rivers Tisza and Danube, including Crişana.[32]

The collapse of the Avar Khaganate enabled the development of "Great" Moravia, a Slavic polity which emerged in the region of the Middle Danube.[33] Svatopluk I of Moravia, who reigned from 870 to 894, expanded his authority over a large region.[34][35] Svatopluk's empire included Crişana, according to historian Gyula Kristó, since Emperor Constantine's reference to "great Moravia, the unbaptized"[36] describes the rivers Timiș, Mureș, Criș, Tisza and Toutis as within its territory.[37][38] Archaeologist Alexandru Madgearu rejects Kristó's theory, because no archaeological finds from the late 9th century evidence Moravian influence in Crişana.[39]

The Bulgarians also benefited from the fall of the Avar Khaganate.[40] One of the military commanders of Omurtag of Bulgaria drowned in the Tisza, showing that Omurtag, who ruled between 814 and 831, attempted to expand his authority towards this river.[41] The Bulgarians allied with the Franks and invaded Moravia in both 863 and 883.[41] Based on sources from around 870, the Persian scholar Gardizi wrote of two peoples, the Nandarin and the Mirdāt,[42] whose lands were ten days' journey apart.[41] Historians István Bóna and György Györffy identify the Nandarins as Bulgarians (because nándor was the Hungarian exonym for the Bulgarians), and the Mirdāt as Moravians.[41][43] If their identifications are valid, the distance between Bulgaria and Moravia was about 250 to 300 kilometres (160 to 190 mi) circa 870.[43]

Anonymus's narration

Menumorut and his duchy

Menumorut's duchy ("Kazárország" or Khazars' Land) on a Hungarian map (from the 1890s) based on the Gesta Hungarorum

Menumorut ruled an area bordered by the rivers Tisza, Mureș, Someș, and the Igyfon Wood at the time of the Magyars' invasion, according to the Gesta Hungarorum.[44][45][46][16] Anonymus also wrote that "the peoples that are called Kozár",[45] identified by historians as Khazars, inhabited this realm, together with the Székelys.[47][16][19] Menumorut's main fortress was located at Biharia, according to Anonymus.[48] An early medieval fortress was found here,[16] and some historians (including Sălăgean) have identified it as Menumorut's capital,[16] although others (for instance, Florin Curta) argue that nothing proves that the fortress was built before the 10th century.[49][50] Anonymus wrote that Menumorut was the grandson of one "Prince Marót" (whose name was derived from the ancient Hungarian exonym for the Moravians), who he states was ruler of Crișana in the times of Attila the Hun.[51][47] According to the Gesta, Menumorut communicated "haughtily with a Bulgarian heart"[52] with the Magyars' envoys, informing them that "the emperor of Constantinople"[53] was his lord.[16][51]

The Gesta describes Menumorut as a polygamist, stating that he "had many concubines".[45][16] Anonymus even suggested that Menumorut's name was connected to the Hungarian word for stallion (mén) because of his womanizing nature.[54] According to historian Neagu Djuvara, Menumorut's name is a Hungarian form of a Turkic (possibly Bulgar) proper name.[55]

The Hungarian conquest

Further information: Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin

The Magyars entered the Carpathian Basin through the Northern Carpathians, according to the Gesta Hungarorum.[56][57] After conquering the northeastern region, their leader, Grand Prince Árpád, sent two envoys, Ősbő and Velek, to Menumorut, demanding "the land from the Someș River to the border of Nyírség, up to the Mezeş Gates".[58][48] Menumorut received Árpád's envoys amicably, but refused to yield, stating that the Byzantine Emperor guaranteed him rule over the land.[51] Ősbő and Velek returned to Árpád and informed him of Menumorut's refusal.[59]

Árpád dispatched three commanders, Tas, Szabolcs, and Tétény, to invade Menumorut's duchy, according to Anonymus.[59] They crossed the Tisza "at the ford of Lád"[53] and marched towards the Someș.[59] They halted at a place near the future village of Szabolcs, where "almost all the inhabitants of the land surrendered of their own will",[53] giving their sons as hostages to them.[59] Menomorut did not dare to launch a counter-attack, since more and more of his subjects were voluntarily yielding to the Magyar leaders.[59] Upon Szabolcs's orders, an earthen fortress was built, which was named after him,[60] and the three Magyar commanders "appointed from among the inhabitants of the land many serving men to that castle"[61] and manned the fortress with Magyar warriors under the command of a lieutenant.[60]

After this, Anonymus continues, a division of the Magyar army advanced towards the Mezeş Gates, under the command of Szabolcs and Tas, and occupied the fortress of Satu Mare, while a second division, led by Tétény, "conquered a great number of people"[62] in the Nyírség.[60] The two divisions rejoined at the Mezeş Gates, where "the dwellers of the land built stone gateways and a great obstacle of trees"[62] in accordance with the Magyar leaders' orders to defend the borders of their newly conquered lands.[63] Anonymus emphasizes that the three Magyar commanders were very proud that "they had subjected almost all the nations"[64] of Menumorut's duchy.[63] Tas and Szabolcs decided to return to Árpád, "subduing the whole people from the Someș River to the Criș River"[65] on their way.[63] Menumorut was at this point planning to escape to the Byzantine Empire, but his warriors prevented Szabolcs and Tas from crossing the Criş at Szeghalom, thus forcing the Magyars to temporarily retreat.[63]

After the first campaign against Menumorut, the Magyars fought with Salan (who was the lord of the lands between the Tisza and the Danube), with the Bohemians, and with Glad (the lord of the Banat), and conquered Pannonia, according to the Gesta.[66] Árpád once again dispatched Ősbő and Velek, at the head of a new army, against Menumorut's remaining lands after the birth of his son, Zoltán.[63] Ősbő and Velek crossed the Tisza and halted at the river Kórógy, where the Székelys, "who were previously the peoples"[67] of Attila the Hun, according to Anonymus, voluntarily joined them.[68] Their united armies crossed the Criş River and encamped on the banks of one of its tributaries.[69] Their arrival frightened Menumorut, who left "a host of warriors" in Biharia and "betook himself and his wife and daughter to the groves"[70] of the Igyfon Wood.[69] Ősbő and Velek laid siege to Biharia, which was defended by "warriors gathered from diverse nations", for twelve days.[70][69] During the siege, twenty Magyar, fifteen Székely warriors, and 125 of Menumorut's soldiers were killed.[69] On the 13th day, after the besiegers made preparations for putting ladders to the wall, the defenders decided to surrender, and opened the gates of the fortress.[71]

Having been informed of the fall of his capital, Anonymus continues, Menumorut surrendered and agreed to give his daughter in marriage to Zoltán.[71] Árpád accepted this offer, allowing Menumorut to continue his rule over Biharia till the end of his life.[71] Árpád "gave the county of Zaránd"[72] to Velek, and the fortress of Veszprém to Ősbő, in reward for their services during the war against Menumorut.[71] Menumorut "died without a son" not long before 907, leaving "his whole kingdom in peace"[72] to his son-in-law, Zoltán.[71]

Historiography

Menumorut is one of the opponents of the conquering Magyars only mentioned in the Gesta Hungarorum.[19] In Romanian historiography, he is considered to be one of the Vlach, or Romanian, dukes whose role in the Gesta proves the existence of Romanian polities in the Carpathian Basin at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries.[73] For instance, historians Ioan-Aurel Pop and Tudor Sălăgean write that Romanians and Slavs (and possibly Avars) inhabited Menumorut's duchy, as well as the Khazars and Székelys whom Anonymus explicitly mentions, because another chapter of the Gesta lists the "Slavs, Bulgarians, Vlachs, and the shepherds of the Romans"[74] among the peoples inhabiting the Carpathian Basin circa 900.[16][75] The two historians also agree that Menumorut accepted the suzerainty of the Byzantine Emperor.[16][51] Pop writes that the successful Byzantine campaigns in Asia Minor and Southern Italy show that the emperors of the Macedonian dynasty wished to restore the Roman Empire in the late 9th and early 10th century; and the Gesta also refers to a Byzantine intervention on behalf of Salan against the Magyars in the Carpathian Basin.[76] On the other hand, Victor Spinei states that any political links between Menumorut and the Byzantine emperors was impossible in the late 9th century, and that Anonymus' remark of Menumorut's subjection to the Byzantine emperor should instead be interpreted as a reference to Menumorut's Orthodox faith.[77] According to Sălăgean, Menumorut was "probably a Christian," even if the Gesta described him as a polygamist.[16] Sălăgean also writes, the general assembly held for seven counties located between the Someș and Tisza and the Mezeş Gates in 1279 "revived the former structure" of Menumorut's country.[78] Kristó notes that no stable regional groups of counties existed, because the following general assembly of the same region was held only for five counties in 1291.[79] Instead of identifying Menumorut as a Romanian ruler, historian Kevin Alan Brook wrote that Menumorut was a Kabar ruler, from a dynasty established by his grandfather, Morut.[80]

Many historians debate the reliability of the reports of the Gesta concerning Menumorut and the other opponents of the Magyars who are not named in other primary sources.[19][81][82] Kristó writes that Anonymus, who had little information of the real conditions of the Carpathian Basin around 900, could only turn "to one thing when he outlined the history of the Hungarian conquest: his own imagination,"[81] and György Györffy says that Menumorut was one of the personalities whom Anonymus invented and named after a location.[83] The existence of two villages named "Morut's house" (Marótlaka in Hungarian) and a clan Morut in Bihar County in the 13th century is well-documented, proving that at least one Morut had settled in this region.[83] Carlile Aylmer Macartney writes that the majority of events that the Gesta mentions in connection with Menumorut are "a simple repetition, with variants" of the story of Salan in the same chronicle, showing that Anonymus "had little material on which to work" when writing about Menumorut.[84] Historian Ryszard Grzesik says that Menumorut "never existed and never ruled over Bihar", but "it was not an invented person".[85] He writes that Menumorut's name derived from the Turkic adjective ménü ("great") and the Moravians' Hungarian exonym, marót, thus he says that Menumorut was the "personification" of Svatopluk I of Moravia.[86]

See also

• Gelou
• Glad (duke)
• Laborec
• Mojmir II of Moravia
• Romania in the Early Middle Ages

Footnotes

1. Róna-Tas 1999, pp. 52–53.
2. Constantine Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando Imperio (ch. 38), p. 171.
3. Kristó 1996, p. 131.
4. Róna-Tas 1999, pp. 321–322.
5. Spinei 2009, pp. 47–49.
6. Spinei 2009, p. 49.
7. Róna-Tas 1999, p. 139.
8. Spinei 2009, p. 50.
9. Pop 1996, pp. 55–57.
10. Constantine Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando Imperio (ch. 39), p. 175.
11. Kristó 1996, p. 149.
12. Kristó 1996, p. 150.
13. Róna-Tas 1999, p. 331.
14. Kristó 1996, pp. 187–189.
15. Spinei 2009, p. 66.
16. Sălăgean 2005, p. 140.
17. Madgearu 2005, pp. 16–20.
18. Györffy 1988, pp. 68–72.
19. Engel 2001, p. 11.
20. Györffy 1988, p. 39.
21. Bóna 1994, pp. 92–93.
22. Bóna 1994, p. 93.
23. Barford 2001, p. 76.
24. Barford 2001, p. 89.
25. Barford 2001, p. 206.
26. Bóna 1994, p. 101.
27. Róna-Tas 1999, p. 263.
28. Barford 2001, p. 263.
29. The Chronicle of Regino of Prüm (year 889), p. 205.
30. Kristó 1996, p. 180.
31. Róna-Tas 1999, p. 264.
32. Róna-Tas 1999, pp. 264–265.
33. Barford 2001, p. 109.
34. Barford 2001, pp. 110, 399.
35. Engel 2001, p. 4.
36. Constantine Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando Imperio (ch. 40), p. 177.
37. Kristó 1996, p. 192.
38. Madgearu 2005, p. 126.
39. Madgearu 2005, p. 127.
40. Sălăgean 2005, p. 133.
41. Bóna 1994, p. 103.
42. Macartney 1968, p. 207.
43. Györffy 1988, p. 68.
44. Georgescu 1991, p. 14.
45. Anonymus, Notary of King Béla: The Deeds of the Hungarians (ch. 11.), p. 33.
46. Pop 1996, p. 95.
47. Györffy 1988, p. 84.
48. Pop 1996, p. 104.
49. Curta 2001, p. 149.
50. Gáll 2013, p. 51.
51. Pop 1996, p. 105.
52. Anonymus, Notary of King Béla: The Deeds of the Hungarians (ch. 51.), p. 113.
53. Anonymus, Notary of King Béla: The Deeds of the Hungarians (ch. 20.), p. 53.
54. Kordé 1994, p. 451.
55. Djuvara 2012, pp. 21–22.
56. Pop 1996, p. 67.
57. Spinei 2009, pp. 71–72.
58. Anonymus, Notary of King Béla: The Deeds of the Hungarians (ch. 19.), p. 51.
59. Pop 1996, p. 106.
60. Pop 1996, p. 107.
61. Anonymus, Notary of King Béla: The Deeds of the Hungarians (ch. 21.), p. 55.
62. Anonymus, Notary of King Béla: The Deeds of the Hungarians (ch. 22.), p. 57.
63. Pop 1996, p. 108.
64. Anonymus, Notary of King Béla: The Deeds of the Hungarians (ch. 23.), p. 59.
65. Anonymus, Notary of King Béla: The Deeds of the Hungarians (ch. 28.), p. 65.
66. Madgearu 2005, p. 22.
67. Anonymus, Notary of King Béla: The Deeds of the Hungarians (ch. 50.), p. 109.
68. Pop 1996, pp. 108–109.
69. Pop 1996, p. 109.
70. Anonymus, Notary of King Béla: The Deeds of the Hungarians (ch. 51.), p. 111.
71. Pop 1996, p. 110.
72. Anonymus, Notary of King Béla: The Deeds of the Hungarians (ch. 52.), p. 115.
73. Boia 2001, p. 124.
74. Anonymus, Notary of King Béla: The Deeds of the Hungarians (ch. 9.), p. 27.
75. Pop 1996, pp. 114–115.
76. Pop 1996, pp. 105-106.
77. Spinei 2003, pp. 61–62.
78. Sălăgean 2016, p. 144.
79. Kristó 2003, p. 221.
80. Brook 2006, p. 165.
81. Kristó 2003, p. 32.
82. Róna-Tas 1999, p. 59.
83. Györffy 1988, pp. 83–84, 94.
84. Macartney 1953, p. 78.
85. Grzesik 2016, p. 28.
86. Grzesik 2016, pp. 28-29.

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• Klepper, Nicolae (2005). Romania: An Illustrated History. Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-7818-0935-5.
• Nägler, Thomas (2005). "Transylvania between 900 and 1300". In Pop, Ioan-Aurel; Nägler, Thomas (eds.). The History of Transylvania, Vol. I. (Until 1541). Romanian Cultural Institute (Center for Transylvanian Studies). pp. 198–231. ISBN 973-7784-00-6.
• Pop, Ioan-Aurel (2013). "De manibus Valachorum scismaticorum...": Romanians and Power in the Mediaeval Kingdom of Hungary: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-631-64866-7.

External links

• Duchy of Menumorut (map)
• "The Map of the Road of the Magyar Conquest – According to the Anonymous Notary"