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Birth:          ABT  800 
Death:          AFT  820 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emese
Emese was daughter of Prince Önedbelia of Dentumoger and the mother of High 
Prince Álmos in Hungarian historical mythology, thus, she was the ancestress of the 
Árpád dynasty, the dynasty which founded the Hungarian Kingdom. Due to a lack of 
reliable source material, it is difficult to separate the legends concerning Emese from 
her actual role as a historical person.

Emese is also a feminine Hungarian name. Its meaning is mother or breastfeeder. The 
word originates from the Old Turkic eme, ana or ene, which mean mother, just like the 
Hungarian word anya.[1]
Emese in legend[edit]

Emese's Dream, the legend concerning the conception of Prince Álmos, is one of the 
earliest known tales from Hungarian history. The legend can be tentatively dated to 
around 860-870, and with certainty to between 820 and 997 (the birth of Álmos and 
the acceptance of Christianity).

In the legend, Emese, the wife of Chief Ögyek (Ügek), was impregnated by a turul 
bird. The turul appeared to her in a dream and told her that from her womb a great 
river would begin, and flow out over strange lands. According to dream interpreters, 
this meant that she would give birth to a son who would lead his people out of their 
home in Levedia, and that her descendants would be glorious kings. Emese's son was 
named Álmos; his name derives from the Hungarian word álom, meaning dream, thus 
"Álmos" can be interpreted as "the Dreamt One".

The legend has several variants, namely regarding whether Emese was impregnated 
by the turul bird or whether she was already pregnant at the time of her dream,[2] and 
whether the bird appeared to her literally or in a dream while she was asleep. Some 
variations of the legend may have been introduced in the 19th century during the 
reemergence of Hungarian nationalism at that time.[3]

Emese in written sources[edit]

Emese is mentioned in two historical works: the Gesta Hungarorum and the Chronicon 
Pictum. Neither are contemporary sources, as both were written several centuries after 
her death (the Gesta around 1200 and the Chronicon Pictum in the 14th century). Both 
works freely intermingle actual historical events with legend and chivalric tales, so it is 
impossible to know if Emese is mentioned as legend or as an actual historical 
personage.

In the Gesta Hungarorum ("The Deeds of the Hungarians"), the author Anonymous 
writes the following;
In the original Latin:
Anno dominice incarnationis, D. CCC. XVII II, vgek, sicut supra diximus, longo post 
tempore de genere magog regis erat quidam nobilissimus dux scithie, qui duxit sibi 
uxorem in dentumoger filiam eunedubeliani ducis, nomine emesu. De qua genuit filium, 
qui agnominatus est almus. Sed ab euentu diuino est nominatus almus, quia matri eius 
pregnanti per sompnium apparuit diuina uisio in forma asturis, que quasi ueniens eam 
grauidauit. Et innotuit ei quod de utero eius egrederetur torrens, et de lumbis eius 
reges gloriosi propagarentur, sed non in sua multiplicarentur terra.
And in English:

In the year of the Lord 819 Ügek, noble Lord of Scythia descending from the great 
house of Magog, took in marriage the daughter of Eunedubelia of Dentumoger, Emesu. 
From her a son was born and given the name Almus. The child was given this divine 
name for when his mother was pregnant with him there appeared to her a in a dream a 
bird, and instantly it seemed to her that from her womb a spring began and from her 
loins spread a great line of kings but they did not propagate in their own lands.
Emese's story is also mentioned in the Chronicon Pictum, in a somewhat shorter 
version;
In the original Latin:

Eleud filius Vgeg ex filia Eunodbilia in Scytia genuit filium, qui nominatur Almus ab 
eventu, quia mater eius in sompno innotuerat avis quasi in forma austuris veniens, 
dum esset gravida, et quod de utero eius egrederentur torrens ac in terra non sua 
multiplicaretur. Ideoque factum fuit, quod de lumbis eius gloriosi reges propagarentur. 
Quia vero sompnium in lingua nostra dicitur alm, et illius ortus per sompnium fuit 
prenosticatus, ideo ipse vocatus est Almus qui fuit Eleud, qui fuit Vgeg, qui fuit Ed, 
qui fuit Chaba, qui fuit Ethele […]
And in English:

Eleud, the son of Ugek by the daughter of Eunodbilia in Scythia had a son, who was 
named Almus because in a dream of his mother there appeared a bird in the shape of 
a hawk who impregnated her, and from her womb a fast-flowing stream began to flow, 
but it was in foreign lands that it grew and propagated. So it happened that from her 
loins a great line of kings was born.

Parents
____ Onedbelia (Venedobel) (ABT  770 - )
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Siblings
____ Emese (ABT  800 - AFT  820)

Marriage To ____ Ogyek (ABT  796 - AFT  820)
    m.  819 

Notes

Parents
____ Olnedobel (ABT  770 - )
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Children by ____ Ogyek ABT  796 - AFT  820
____ Almos (ABT  820 - ABT  895)

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