Báncsa (genus)

Genus (gens) Báncsa
Country	Kingdom of Hungary
Founded	early 13th century
Founder	Orbász I (?)
Final ruler	Peter II
Dissolution	1348
Cadet branches	House of Horvat

Báncsa or Bancsa (Latin: Bancha), also incorrectly Vancsa or Vancza, was the name of a gens (Latin for "clan"; nemzetség in Hungarian) in the Kingdom of Hungary.

As one of the clans from Délvidék, the southern territories of the kingdom, the Báncsa was an original settler kindred from Bács County (today Bač, Serbia), which later was granted landholdings and villages in Northern Hungary, including Esztergom and Komárom Counties. Based on the given name Orbász (also Orbas or Vrbas), which was common within the family, it is possible that the clan was of Slavic (Serbian or Croatian) origin.

Orbász I (fl. 1213–16)

Benedict I

Stephen I (fl. 1238–70)

Vincent (fl. 1243–66)

Peter I (fl. 1253)

Stephen II (fl. 1263–78)

Orbász II (fl. 1264–86)

Thomas (fl. 1283–97)

Carulus (fl. 1264)

John (fl. 1264–70)

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