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'Peter Urseolo' (or 'Orseolo') was the second king of Hungary who reigned from 1038 till 1041 and again from 1044 till 1046 following a brief interruption of three years in which Sámuel Aba ruled the nation.
He was said to have been the son of the sister of his predecessor, Saint Stephen ''(István I)'', and Ottone Orseolo, the doge of Venice. That was the reason why Stephen appointed him to be his successor after the death of the king's own son, Emeric (Imre), in a hunting accident.
Peter was not welcomed by the Magyar nobility. In 1041 they removed Peter from the throne and proclaimed Sámuel Aba king. Peter fled to Henry III, the Holy Roman Emperor, with whose help he returned in 1044 and won the battle of Ménfő.
Peter's power was restored, but he, and with him the Kingdom of Hungary, became Henry's vassal. The Hungarian nobles called back to the country Andrew, Levente and Béla, the heirs of Vazul, who had joined in a conspiracy to assassinate King Stephen.
Unlike Stephen, Peter was unable to rule the nation competently and fell into conflict with the largely pagan nobility. His reign ended when the nobility started the so-called Vatha pagan rising. A year of instability followed. Finally, in 1047, the Árpád dynasty was restored with Andrew ''(András)'' I.

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Wives

★ Tuta of Ratisbona, daughter of Ruprecht of Ratisbona

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★ Vitalia, wife of Albert Azzo II, Margrave of Milan

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★ (???) Martine Orseolo (???)

★ Judith of Schweinfurt, widow of Bretislaus I of Bohemia

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★ Kings of Hungary

References

1. Geneology of the Orseolo family