Szilágyi family

The Szilágyi of Horogszeg (Hungarian: horogszegi Szilágyi) was an important Hungarian noble family of the Kingdom of Hungary and of Transylvania.[1]

Szilágyi
Country
Titles
  • Perpetual Count of Beszterce ("perpetuus et liber comes districtus Bistriciensis")

History

The Szilágyi family comes from the region of the Szilágy-patak (present-day Sălaj River, part of Romania).

Most specialist agree that the family died out in the Middle Ages.[2] Zoltán W. Vityi says that the noble Szilágyis of Horogszeg who lived in Nyírgelse and Nyírmihálydi (in Szabolcs County in Hungary) in the 1930s were descended from the medieval noble family.[2]

Notable members

Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia, Duke of Austria, son of Erzsébet Szilágyi
A 19th-century map of Kingdom of Hungary showing the location of Szilágyi county
Present-day location of Sălaj County on the map of Romania

See also

References

  1. "The College of the Hereditary Nobility of Hungary". www.hungarianheraldry.org.
  2. A Zürichi Magyar Történelmi Egyesület kiadványa, A Zürichi Magyar Történelmi Egyesület Ötödik Magyar Őstörténeti Találkozó Előadásai és Iratai, Budapest – Zürich, 2005, p. 179, ISBN 963 9349 09 7
  3. Sümegi József (28 December 2012). "Vingárti Geréb Péter" (PDF). Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  4. (Hungarian) Engel, Pál (1996). Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1301–1457, I. ("Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1301–1457, Volume I"). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. p. 29. Budapest. ISBN 963-8312-44-0

Sources

  • Bokor József (szerk.). A Pallas nagy lexikona. Arcanum: FolioNET Kft. ISBN 963 85923 2 X, 1998
  • Radu R. Florescu, Raymond T. McNally, Dracula: Prince of many faces - His life and his times, p. 130
  • Kisfaludy Károly: Szilágyi Mihály szabadulása (színmű, Pest, 1822)
  • Fraknói Vilmos: Michael Szilágyi, The uncle of King Matthias (Bp., 1913)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.