king, issued in 1161, confirms that Wolfer was deceased by then. In 1157, Gervasius, Bishop of Győr contributed and permitted the foundation of the Benedictine Abbey of Küszén (later Németújvár, present-day Burg Güssing in Austria), to comes Wolfer, who donated several surrounding lands and vineyards to the monastery. Gervasius subordinated the monastery to the Pannonhalma Abbey and dedicated the new monastery to Virgin Mary. The establishing charter of the Küszén Abbey was preserved through a shortened transliteration from 1230, as a result formerly some historians doubted its authenticity. According to historian Richárd Horváth, Wolfer did not erect a wooden fort there, contrary to the narrations of the medieval chronicles. The establishing charter also emphasizes the mount of Küszén was an "uninhabited wasteland" before the erection of the abbey. As the founder of the monastery, Wolfer was buried there. However a few decades later, Béla III of Hungary (r. 1172–1196) confiscated the Abbey of Küszén from the Benedictines and, based on the walls of the abbey, built a royal castle (called Németújvár, or simply Újvár, "New Castle", today Güssing in Austria) on top of the hill in the late 1170s or early 1180s, because of its significant strategic location along the Imperial border. He compensated its patron, comes Hencse (Wolfer's son) with the patronage of the newly constructed abbey of Kapornak in Zala County. Wolfer's great-grandson was the powerful lord Henry Kőszegi, whose family ruled the whole Transdanubia and the northern portion of Slavonia independently of the royal power at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. References Sources Primary sources Simon of Kéza: The Deeds of the Hungarians (Edited and translated by László Veszprémy and Frank Schaer with a study by Jenő Szűcs) (1999). CEU Press. . The Hungarian Illuminated Chronicle: Chronica de Gestis Hungarorum (Edited by Dezső Dercsényi) (1970). Corvina, Taplinger Publishing. . Secondary sources Héder (genus) 12th-century German nobility 12th-century Hungarian people German expatriates in Hungary Medieval German knights