Kálmán

Kálmán, b ca 1070, d 3 February 1116. King of Hungary from 1095. He married Yevtymiia Volodymyrivna, the daughter of Grand Prince Volodymyr Monomakh. During his rule, he seized Dalmatia, Croatia, and part of Transcarpathia. In 1099, as the ally of Sviatopolk II Iziaslavych of Kyiv, he was defeated in battle near Peremyshl by the united armies of Prince Volodar Rostyslavych and Vasylko Rostyslavych of Galicia and Khan Boniak and the Cumans.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]