Bindings between Leles and the Hungarian Árpád dynasty kings

The leaders of Premonstratensian Order were the secret advisors for the kings of the Árpád dynasty. Also they were spiritual leaders and advisors for economical matters within which the aim was to introduce new agricultural technologies and to extend its usage.
Andrew II. the king of the Hungarian kingdom can be attached with multiple strings to Leles.

From the kings military descriptions we know, that through his military campaign he, with his knights, very often rested here in Leles.

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According to the legend when the king was on its campaign to Galicia on 23^th September 1213 his dead wife’s (queen Andechsi-Merán Gertrudis) corpse was kept temporally safe by the Premonstratensian order. The king, to show his gratitude, he donated his dead wife’s heart to the order as a gift. Since then, he became the guardian, patron of the order.

One quarter of the survived, priceless records, donation letters and colourful church chronicles from the Arpádian era (11^th-14^th century) was written in the Premonstratensian Order in Leles, for which the rights to function was granted by Andrew II. in 1214. For this, it became for nearly 800 years the home for the depository of legislature and Hungarian literacy.

A lot of documents are tied to Andrew II. name. After the English Magna Charta (1215) his Golden Bull of 1222 was the second constitutional writing for the early middle age Europe. One of its eight copies was written in Leles.

During the Ottoman expansion only few monuments of the gothic, knight age Hungary had remained. Miraculously Leles belongs to one of these, which is standing proudly between the Latorica-Tice-Bodrog Rivers, sending the message of the kings sacred heritage.