Sarolt

{{Infobox royalty|consort = yes

| title = Grand Princess of the Hungarians

| name = Sarolt

| image = Chronicon Pictum P037 Szent István születése.JPG

| caption = Stephen's birth depicted in the Illuminated Chronicle

| succession =

| reign = before 972 – {{c.}} 997

| spouse = Géza of Hungary

| issue = Judith of Hungary
Margaret, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria
Saint Stephen
Grimelda of Hungary
Sarolt?, Queen of Hungary

| royal house = House of Arpad

| father = Gyula of Transylvania

| mother =

| birth_date = c. 950

| birth_place =

| death_date = c. 1008

| death_place =

| place of burial=St. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Székesfehérvár[http://mek.oszk.hu/04000/04092/html/ Hankó Ildikó: Királyaink tömegsírban]

| religion = Eastern Christianity

}}

Sarolt ({{c.}} 950 – c. 1008) was the wife of Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians.

She was born a daughter of Zombor (or Gyula II), gyula of Transylvania, second in rank among the leaders of the Hungarian tribal federation.{{cite book|title=DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Hungary|first=Craig|last=Turp|publisher=Penguin|year=2007|isbn=9780756649241}}

Sarolt exerted a powerful influence on her husband which allowed her to also influence his government."In these days, he [Saint Adalbert] sent [a letter] to the High Prince of the Magyars, or rather to his wife who had been holding the whole country in her power with a hand of a man, and who had been governing everything owned by her husband" (Bruno of Querfurt: Sancti Adalberti Pragensis episcopi et martyris vita altera). She was watched with suspicion by Catholic missionaries."Christian faith made its start under her direction, but the sullied religion mingled with paganism, and this idle and faint Christianity was turning worse than barbarism" (Bruno of Querfurt: Sancti Adalberti Pragensis episcopi et martyris vita altera). The chronicles accused her of drinking insatiably and even committing manslaughter.

Sarolt and her husband received baptism late in life. They raised their son as a Christian and changed his name from Vajk to Stephen as a sign of their faith.{{cite book|editor1-last=Commire|editor1-first=Anne|title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia|date=2002|publisher=Yorkin Publications|location=Waterford, Connecticut|isbn=0-7876-4074-3|chapter-url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/sarolta-fl-900s|chapter=Sarolta (fl. 900s)|page=806}} After her husband's death in 997, one of his distant cousins, Koppány, who declared his claim to the leadership of the Magyars against her son, Stephen (Vajk), wanted to marry Sarolt, referring to the Hungarian tradition. Koppány, nevertheless, was defeated, and shortly afterward Sarolt's son was crowned as the first King of Hungary.