Fajsz

Fajsz was the only known son of Jutotzas, the third son of Árpád who led the Hungarian tribes' confederation at the time of their conquest of the Carpathian Basin between around 895 and 907.{{sfn|Kristó|Makk|1996|pp=18–22}} After Árpád's death,{{sfn|Molnár|2001|p=17}} fundamental changes happened in the government of the tribal confederation.{{sfn|Curta|2006|p=189}} Although the various tribes could even thereafter act in concert for raids, they did not obey a strong central authority any more.{{sfn|Engel|2001|p=20}}

Even so, as the historian Miklós Molnár emphasizes, "the supremacy of the House of Árpád seems to have remained unshaken."{{sfn|Molnár|2001|p=17}} For instance, Hungarian visitors to Constantinople{{spaced ndash}}including Termatzus, a great-grandson{{sfn|Kristó|Makk|1996|ps=, Appendix 1.}} of Árpád{{spaced ndash}} informed Emperor Constantine VII around 948 that the "first chief" of the Hungarians "comes by succession of Árpád's family".Constantine Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando Imperio (ch. 40), p. 179.{{sfn|Engel|2001|p=20}} Constantine VII also mentions that Fajsz was the head of the confederation of the Hungarian tribes around 950. The historian Gyula Kristó proposes that Fajsz abdicated after the Hungarians' catastrophic defeat by the Germans in the battle of Lechfeld in 955.{{sfn|Kristó|Makk|1996|p=23}}{{sfn|Engel|2001|p=20}}

Fajsz's name, which was preserved in two forms{{spaced ndash}}"Phalitzi" and "Phalis"{{spaced ndash}}{{sfn|Kordé|1994|p=207}} may be connected either to the Hungarian word for "half" (fél) or to the verb fal ("to gobble up").{{sfn|Kristó|Makk|1996|p=22}} Historian György Györffy proposes that the villages named Fajsz in the Carpathian Basin{{spaced ndash}}for instance, the one in Bács-Kiskun County (Hungary){{spaced ndash}}were named after him.{{sfn|Kordé|1994|p=207}} Based on the recorded Phalitzi form of Fajsz's name, Gyula Kristó rejects this hypothesis.{{sfn|Kordé|1994|p=207}}

• Battle of Lechfeld
• Gyula (title)
• Horka (title)
• Principality of Hungary

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• Constantine Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando Imperio (Greek text edited by Gyula Moravcsik, English translation by Romillyi J. H. Jenkins) (1967). Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies. {{ISBN|0-88402-021-5}}.
• {{cite book |last=Curta |first=Florin |year=2006 |title=Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250 |url=https://archive.org/details/southeasterneuro0000curt |url-access=registration |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-89452-4}}
• {{cite book |last=Engel |first=Pál |year=2001|title=The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895–1526 |publisher= I.B. Tauris Publishers |isbn=1-86064-061-3}}
• {{cite book |last=Kordé |first=Zoltán |editor1-last=Kristó |editor1-first=Gyula |editor2-last=Engel |editor2-first=Pál |editor3-last=Makk |editor3-first=Ferenc | title=Korai magyar történeti lexikon (9-14. század) |trans-title=Encyclopedia of the Early Hungarian History (9th-14th centuries) |publisher=Akadémiai Kiadó |year=1994 |page=207 |chapter=Falitzi |isbn=963-05-6722-9}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Kristó |first1=Gyula |last2=Makk |first2=Ferenc |year=1996 |title=Az Árpád-ház uralkodói |trans-title=Rulers of the House of Árpád |publisher=I.P.C. Könyvek | isbn=963-7930-97-3|language=hu}}
• {{cite book |last=Molnár |first=Miklós |year=2001 |title=A Concise History of Hungary |url=https://archive.org/details/concisehistoryof00moln |url-access=registration |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-66736-4 }}

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• {{Cite book |last=Kristó |first=Gyula |year=2001 |title=Histoire de la Hongrie médiévale: Tome 1 Le temps des Árpàds |trans-title=Medieval Hungary, Volume I: The Time of the Árpáds |publisher=Presses universitaires de Rennes | isbn=2-86847-533-7|language=fr}}

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