Apponyi

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Coat of arms of the Apponyi counts of Nagy-Apponyi 1739

The Counts Apponyi von Nagy-Apponyi , also Appony ( French: de Nagy-Appony ) are an old Hungarian , then also Austrian noble family.

history

This old Hungarian family was mentioned in a document with Aladarius de Péch as early as 1305. He had two sons, Thomas, the castellan of Cseits, and Nikolaus, who lived around 1315 as chief clan of Hont County . Both received the donation of the Kiss-Eör and Berencz estates from Charles I of Hungary and in 1317 those of Veczka, Nagy-Bany, Nadan, Sipko, Kulpud and Ujick.

Abraham Ruffus de Peczh (also Peech) was Castellan of Cseits, Ujvar and Berencz and in 1343 King Louis I of Hungary's envoy to Pope Clement VI. In 1369 the king confirmed the estates of Nagy-Bany, Zeplak, Nadan and others to the sons of Thomas Ruffus de Peczh, Stephan and Peter.

Magister Thomas Ruffus de Peczh exchanged 1392 with Emperor Sigismund Castle and Lordship Cseklecz with all goods and possessions in and around Pressburg and the shipping toll on the Danube for the Castle and Lordship of Appony (German: Groß-Apponitz , today Oponice in Slovakia ) in Neutra County , from which title and predicate were derived for him and his descendants.

Peter Paul of Appony was admitted to the Moravian countryside in Prague on November 27, 1607 .

George of Apponyi stayed on the battlefield against the Turks in 1594. Paul von Apponyi signed the Vienna treatise of 1606. In 1618 he was delegated by the Reichstag to negotiate the amendment of the borders between Hungary and Moravia. In 1622 he became crown guardian, then Baro tabulae Judiciorum octavalium. Around the same time, Niklas von Apponyi distinguished himself through acts of war and fought with great bravery in the battles of Keresztes and Stuhlweissenburg . Niklas the Younger took part in the reconquest of the fortress of Ofen with a group of his own men in arms .

Rudolph of Apponyi (1802-1853)
Albert from Apponyi
George of Apponyi

Lazar Graf von Appony, son of the above, was given a diploma on February 16, 1718 in Vienna by Emperor Charles VI because of his excellent services . in the baron class, and raised by the same with a diploma of May 30, 1739 at Laxenburg to the count status.

During the uprising of Francis II Rákóczi (1703-1711), Appony Castle and Palace were razed in 1708. The remains have been repaired since 2000.

From a younger Appony line, Joseph Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi, a son of Paul Apponyi and Johanna Countess von Herberstein and grandson of Johann Apponyi and Therese Freiin von Korlathkeö, according to the diploma of Vienna on April 8, 1808, also acquired the status of Hungarian hereditary count.

The Great Hunting Lodge , which was inhabited by members of the family until 1940 and is now a luxury hotel, also houses part of the Apponyi library founded by Count Anton Georg Apponyi.

Possessions (selection)

Majorate rule Apáti; the rule of Högyész and Eberhard; the rule of Nagy-Appony and Kötesd; the Pálfa and Szent-György-Ur dominions ; Gross-Appony and Korlathkeö.

coat of arms

1739: Squared shield with a central shield, in which a right-turned black head with a silver forehead band and part of the neck and pearls in the ear stands in red, holding a full downwardly inclined rose on a leafy stem in the mouth. Field 1 in blue a golden crown, from which, bent to the right, an armored arm stretches up, which holds a hip horn with golden fittings in its bare fist. 2 in gold a red castle wall resting on four rock peaks with two tin towers between which a blue orb floats (instead some assume a blue star and a red paw cross over it). 3 in gold a red, crowned, double-tailed lion leaping inward. 4 divided transversely: at the top in blue a golden crown standing on the dividing line, from which five ostrich feathers, three silver and two black, followed by three silver ones, emerge. Below, in green, three silver, wave-shaped curved crossbars, above the count's crown rise three crowned helmets. On the right helmet stands an inward-looking, assertive shock hawk of natural color. The middle one wears an armored arm resting freely on the elbow, which holds a left-facing saber and three laurel branches in his fist, and the left helmet has an eagle's claw, which protrudes from a black eagle's wing that is turned inward for the Saxons and rests on the crown of the helmet. The helmet covers are blue and gold on the right, silver and red on the left.

Name bearer

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jacob AF Hyrtl: The princely, counts and baronial families of the Austrian imperial state. Verlag Schaumburg und Compagnie, Vienna 1851, p. 8ff.
  2. ↑ coresno.com
  3. ^ Franz Gräffer, Johann J. Czikann: Oesterreichische National-Encyklopädie, or alphabetical presentation of the peculiarities of the Austrian Empire that are worth knowing. Volume 1: A-D. In the commission of the Friedrich Beck'schen Universitätsbuchhandlung, Vienna 1835, p. 99f.
  4. ^ A b c Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation. 1st volume: A – K. Publisher TO Weigel, Leipzig 1852, p. 23.
  5. ↑ weber-habenausgabe.de
  6. ↑ peter-hug.ch