was besieged by Ottokar's another army after a capture of several other forts and settlements in the region. Andrew and his sons, including Thomas successfully defended their residence in August 1273. Thereafter, they participated in the recapture of Győr. During that time, the child Ladislaus IV ruled the kingdom; during his minority, many groupings of barons — primarily the Csáks, Kőszegis, and Gutkeleds — fought against each other for supreme power. Thomas Hont-Pázmány allied with the Csák brothers Matthew II and Peter I due to geographical proximity and kinship. Following the Battle of Föveny, when the Csáks and their allies gained influence over the royal council, Thomas served as Judge royal from March to June 1275. Beside that, he was also ispán of Pozsony County and Sempte ispánate, which laid in Nyitra County. Thomas was replaced as Judge royal by Nicholas Geregye in June, when the Kőszegis regained power around that time. On the occasion of a subsequent course change, Thomas was made Ban of Slavonia by the autumn of 1275. He held the dignity until June 1276, when the Gutkeleds and Kőszegis again removed their opponents from power at the national diet after Peter Csák's brutal and bloody attack against the Diocese of Veszprém. Thomas served as ispán of Nyitra and Pozsony counties from around August 1276 to November 1277. Beside that he was also referred to as ispán of Komárom County between April and November 1277. He was styled as count of the tárnoks in November 1277. Some historians, including Attila Zsoldos attributed Thomas' 1270s career to his namesake relative, Thomas, son of Achilles from the Hont-Pázmány clan's Szentgyörgy branch. Pál Engel considered the careers in 1270s and 1290s belonged to one person, Thomas from the Forgács branch. Royal councillor Thomas Hont-Pázmány lost political positions for the remaining part of the reign of Ladislaus IV. His brother John and the other prelates became staunch opponents of the king after the intervention of the Holy See regarding the baptism of the pagan Cumans. Following the death of his father sometime after 1277, Thomas became Lord of Gímes. He acquired large-scale landholdings and estates in the region between the rivers Nyitra (Nitra) and Zsitva (Žitava) in the 1280s, when retired to his residence in order to establish his lordship. His family, the Forgács branch owned significant portions of Nyitra and Bars counties in the westernmost part of the Kingdom of