About: Buzád Hahót

Buzád II Hahót, O.P., also Buzád the Great or Buzád the Elder (Hungarian: Hahót nembeli (II.) Buzád, Latin: Magnus Buzad; c. 1180 – April 1241), was a Hungarian nobleman and soldier, who served as the first known Ban of Severin. He later gave up his position in society and entered the Dominican Order. Buzád was killed during a Mongol invasion of his homeland, and is now honored as a martyr by the Catholic Church, for which he has been beatified and is also known as Blessed Buzád (Hungarian: Boldog Buzád).