Thomas (III) from the kindred Hont-Pázmány (; died after 1303) was a Hungarian influential lord in the second half of the 13th century, who served as Judge royal in 1275 and from 1291 to 1293. He was a strong confidant of Andrew III of Hungary. Family Thomas (III) was born into the Forgács branch of the wealthy and prestigious gens (clan) Hont-Pázmány in the 1240s. His father was Andrew (I), who erected castles near Turóc and Gímes (present-day Kláštor pod Znievom and Jelenec in Slovakia, respectively) following the First Mongol invasion of Hungary. He was a faithful confidant of Béla IV, then Stephen V. Andrew served as count of the tárnoks (financial officials) from 1249 to 1256, and ispán of Bánya (Árkibánya) ispánate on several occasions, which laid in the territory of Nyitra County. His mother was Maria Nánabeszter. Thomas had several siblings, who also rose to prominence during the last decades of the 13th century. The most influential was John, who entered ecclesiastical career and served as Archbishop of Kalocsa from 1278 to 1301. Thomas and John closely cooperated with each other during the reign of Andrew III in the 1290s. His another brothers, Andrew (II) and Ivánka (III) were skilled soldiers and served faithfully King Andrew III in his campaigns against the oligarchs. Both of them were killed in battles against the powerful rebellious lord Matthew III Csák. Through his elder son, Andrew was ancestor of the Forgács (or Forgách) noble family, which still exists and provided several magnates for the Hungarian elite in the following centuries. Thomas' youngest brother was Nicholas, who was mentioned between 1295 and 1297. He also had two sisters, Yolanda and an unidentified one, who married Atyócs of Zólyom and Peter Szikszói, respectively. The four brothers – Thomas, Andrew, Ivánka and Nicholas – divided the lordship of Gímes among themselves in January 1295. Thomas had neither known wife nor descendants. Early career His father Andrew was still alive and played an active role in the early 1270s, when Thomas was first mentioned by contemporary records in 1273. In that year, Ottokar II of Bohemia invaded the northern borderlands of Hungary. Thomas participated in the battle at Laa in August, where the Hungarians defeated the Bohemian army. Thomas seriously injured during the skirmish. Despite that he marched into Upper Hungary in order to provide assistance to his elderly father Andrew, whose castle of Gímes