The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Bank Ban

BANK BAN, or Ban Bank, a Hungarian military governor, executed with his whole family by order of King Andrew II. (1205-'35). Bank's wife having been seduced by the queen's brother Eckart, with the queen's connivance, he placed himself at the head of a mob who stormed the palace in the king's absence and cut the queen to pieces, Eckart barely escaping with his life to Styria (1214). Katona's Bank-bán, a celebrated Hungarian drama (Klausenburg, 1827), has been translated into German (Leipsic, 1858). Grillparzer also dramatized the subject in Ein treuer Diener seines Herrn (Vienna, 1830).