Lebedias 1 is described by Constantine Porphyrogenitus as the first voivode (βοέβοδος) of the Turks (here meaning the Magyars or Hungarians); the region known as Lebedia was named after him: Const. Porph., DAI 38, 4ff. The khagan of the Khazars (Anonymus 745) gave him a noble Khazar lady (Anonyma 103) as a bride at a time when the Khazars and the Turks were in alliance; they had no children: Const. Porph., DAI 38, 15ff. When the Khazar khagan proposed that Lebedias 1 be appointed ruler (ἄρχων) of the Turks (i.e. the Hungarians), he declined and suggested that either Almoutzes 1 or his son Arpades 1 be appointed: Const. Porph., DAI 38, 31ff. The date was probably around the mid ninth century; cf. Arpades 1. The location of Lebedia is not known; see DAI, Comm., ed. Jenkins, p. 147.

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