the earlier hungarian historiography, based on genealogist jános karácsonyi's notice, considered that orbász was first mentioned by contemporary records as a "comes" in 1213. it is plausible that he is identical with that certain orbász, who served as "ispán" of komárom county in 1216. cardinal stephen mentioned his father only once in a charter of 1252, which narrates he was involved in a lawsuit in early 1240s in the case of ownership right over the estate urkuta against györk atyusz, son of ban atyusz iii atyusz. accordingly, stephen had established a mass-endowment for his late father's spiritual salvation and financed its operation from the income of urkuta. orbász was buried in the lobby of the st. adalbert cathedral in esztergom.