Andrew (I) from the kindred Hont-Pázmány (; died after 1277) was a Hungarian lord in the 13th century. He was a staunch supporter of King Béla IV of Hungary. Early life Andrew (I) was born into the Forgács branch of the wealthy and prestigious gens (clan) Hont-Pázmány in the 1210s. His father was comes Ivánka (I), the first reliably known member of the branch, who plausibly participated in the royal campaigns against the Principality of Halych during the reign of Andrew II of Hungary. According to a non-authentic charter with the date 1226, Ivánka was a son of a certain Ivancs (Iwanch). Beside that, his name appeared in a sole document only, in 1229, when shared his inherited estate of Szelepcsény (present-day Slepčany, Slovakia) with his relatives. Andrew had a brother Thomas (II). Both of them spent their childhood in the royal court, according to a charter of Béla IV in 1249. Thomas and Andrew participated in the disastrous Battle of Mohi on 11 April 1241, when the invading Mongols destroyed the Hungarian royal army. Béla IV narrated the Hont-Pázmány brothers' actions in his charter in 1253. Accordingly, when the monarch fled the battlefield, Andrew handed over his nimble and full-strength horse to Béla IV, lagging behind on foot, turning to the pursuers. While Thomas was killed in the site, Andrew managed to survive and went into hiding. Career Béla IV returned to Hungary after the withdrawal of the Mongols in 1242. After Béla abandoned the ancient royal prerogative to build and own castles in response to the Mongol invasion, Andrew erected a small fort of Turóc Castle by 1243 (also known as Znió or Zniev, present-day near Kláštor pod Znievom, Slovakia). During the subsequent wars with the Duchy of Austria and the Republic of Venice, Andrew was entrusted to protect and guard the king's four-year-old firstborn son and heir Duke Stephen in Turóc in the winter of 1243. The castle itself was assigned to the royal forest of Zólyom and later became seat of the emerging Turóc County. Throughout the 1240s, Andrew were granted several lands in Nyitra County, which became the basis of the family lordship, which had developed in the region between the rivers Nyitra (Nitra) and Zsitva (Žitava) in the upcoming decades. Through royal land donations, Andrew acquired Gyarak (Kmeťovo) in 1247 and a significant portion in Mánya (Maňa) in 1249. By the second half of