moved to Kiev. Andrew was baptized in Kiev, but Levente remained a devout pagan. Dissatisfied with King Peter Orseolo, who succeeded Stephen I of Hungary, Hungarian lords persuaded Levente and Andrew to return to Hungary in 1046. Meanwhile, a great pagan uprising had broken out in Hungary. The rebels captured King Peter. The Hungarian lords and prelates preferred a Christian monarch and offered the crown to Andrew, while, as historian Sándor Tóth argues, leaders of the pagan revolt supported the claim of Levente, for he was not baptized, unlike his brothers. The Illuminated Chronicle states that Levente "would beyond doubt have corrupted all Hungary with paganism and idolatry". However, the same chronicle also writes that Levente gave the crown, in the "simplicity of spirit", to Andrew, suggesting that Levente voluntarily renounced the crown in favor of his brother. Levente died in 1047 and was buried in a village on the Danube which was named after his great-grandfather, Taksony, who was "said to lie in a pagan grave" there, according to the Illuminated Chronicle. 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 Medieval Hungarian nobility House of Árpád 1010s births 1047 deaths 11th-century Hungarian people Pagans