Szilágyi family

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

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

History

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

  • Szilágyi Coat of Arms
    Szilágyi Coat of Arms
  • Szilágyi Coat of Arms
    Szilágyi Coat of Arms
  • Coat of Arms of Szilágyi Family
    Coat of Arms of Szilágyi Family
Coat of arms of Michael Szilágyi as Regent of Hungary

Most specialists 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

Michael Szilágyi, Regent of Hungary, Voivode of Transylvania
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 Szilágy 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 b 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)

External links

  • College of the Hereditary Nobility of Hungary and Transylvania
  • For a list of surnames of the historical nobility of Hungary, see nobilitashungariae: List of Historical Surnames of the Hungarian Nobility / nobilitashungariae. A magyar történelmi nemesség családneveinek listájanobilitashungariae: List of Historical Surnames of the Hungarian Nobility
  • The house of Matthias Corvinus, the only king born in Cluj, 9 March 2015