Mikod (II) from the kindred Kökényesradnót (; died 1298) was a Hungarian baron and ökényesradnósoldier in the second half of the 13th century. He served as Ban of Severin from 1275 to 1276.
He was a staunch supporter of Stephen V of Hungary. He acquired several landholdings in Transylvania due to his military and political service since the 1250s. The influential Dobokai family ascended from him.
Family
Mikod (also Mikud or Mykud) was born into the gens (clan) Kökényesradnót, which initially possessed landholdings in the southeastern part of Nógrád County. According to the 14th-century Illuminated Chronicle, the ancestors of the kindred – Kökényes (Kyquin) and Radnót (Reynold) – were of Hispanic origin, who "came to Hungary with Queen Margaret, the wife of King Béla I of Hungary" in the 11th century. Whereas no such queen is known, the majority of historians considered that the two French or Spanish knights arrived to Hungary with Margaret of France, the second spouse of Béla III of Hungary in the 1180s.
Mikod (II) was the son of Mikod (I), whose activity is unknown. He also had a brother Emeric, who had a son John and a daughter Catherine, the wife of the influential lord Egidius Monoszló. Mikod had four children from his marriage with an unidentified noblewoman. The eldest one Nicholas was the ancestor of the Dobokai family, while the Bogátis descended from Peter. The third son Demetrius appeared in contemporary records in the period between 1297 and 1305. Mikod's only known daughter Elizabeth married John Aba from the Cente branch of the powerful clan.
Military career
Two donation letters of King Ladislaus IV of Hungary, issued in June and July 1279, preserved details on Mikod's military service from the earlier decades. He participated in Béla IV's royal campaign against the Duchy of Austria in 1250, when the Hungarian monarch made a plundering raid into Austria and Styria in the summer of 1250, in retaliation of a former Austrian incursion into Hungary. Mikod fought during the siege of Kirchschlag in Lower Austria; his right leg was broken when the defenders threw a stone at him and his left leg was pierced with a spear before the king's eyes. Mikod also participated in the royal campaign in the summer of 1253, when King Béla IV launched a war against Ottokar II in Moravia. Béla sent Mikod to besiege and occupy the (now unidentified) castle of "Mynen", which laid along the northern border of Hungary. According to the narration, when Mikod and his soldiers, as part of the vanguard army, tried to break into the fort and to set his own flag inside, Ottokar's defenders severely injured his right hand and rib with a spear. For his loyal service, Mikod was granted the villages Lövő, Szepene and Bánd in Zala County.
By the early 1260s, both Mikod and Emeric Kökényesradnót were considered important partisans of Duke Stephen, King Béla's eldest son and heir, who administered his provinces in Styria, then Transylvania. The close confidential relationship is well indicated by that purchase, when Stephen paid Mikod the hefty sum of 100 silver marks for a single horse in 1269. Sometime before 1262, Mikod and Emeric were granted Szentmiklós in Torda County along the river Aranyos (Arieș) near Torda (present-day Turda, Romania) by Béla IV. The relationship between Béla IV and Stephen became tense by the beginning of 1261, because the latter accused his father of planning to disinherit him. After a brief skirmish, Stephen forced his father to cede all the lands of the Kingdom of Hungary to the east of the Danube to him and adopted the title of junior king in 1262. Thereafter, the Kökényesradnót brothers were also oriented in Transylvania, establishing a wealth there and roughly abandoning their inherited possessions in Transdanubia, which laid in senior king Béla's domain. Mikod was granted whole Doboka County around 1262, which he governed as perpetual count (or ispán) until 1268.