Batthyány

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Batthyany coat of arms

Batthyány ( IPA : [ ˈbɒcːaːɲi ]) is the name of an old and widely ramified Hungarian noble family who, as magnates , counts and princes, belonged to the most important families of Austria-Hungary .

Family history

Ádám Batthyány is considered by the Batthyánys , who are still alive today, to be “the progenitor of the family in the narrower sense”.
Portal of the family crypt in Güssing

The Batthyány belong to the Hungarian nobility . Researchers trace the family's origins back to the Eors (Örs or Urs), who were first mentioned in 970 and who settled on the northern shore of Lake Balaton . In any case, the line of the Batthyánys can clearly be seen as beginning with Miklós de Kővágóörs (1341–1376), who married a Katharina Batthyány. His son Georg de Kővágóörs became castle captain of Esztergom in 1370 and was awarded the Battyán estate with the market town of Polgárdi in Fejér county by King Sigismund in 1398 for his services in the fight against the Turks . In 1481 the family received a renewal of their coat of arms .

A new chapter in family history began with Franz I and Balthasar II. On June 30, 1524 he got the castle and rule of Güssing (Hungarian Nemetújvár ) from King Ludwig II . Since then, this has been the ancestral home of the family in Burgenland , and one line of the family was named Batthyány Nemetújvári afterwards . Franz II. Batthyany (1577-1625) was awarded the count status in 1603 . Another line later called itself Batthyány-Strattmann and was accepted into the prince's class, another line remained counts.

Balthasar Batthyány made the Güssing family seat the evangelical center of the region in 1570 . His descendant Ádám Batthyány became Catholic again and founded a Franciscan monastery in Güssing (in the south of today's Burgenland) . The Hungarian barony was bestowed on the later princely line of the family in 1628, the Hungarian counts in 1630. In 1645 the Batthyány obtained the Lower Austrian lordship, the hereditary dignity of Banus of Croatia and Slavonia was granted to them in 1700. In 1721 Batthyány was accepted into the Moravian gentry and in 1734 into the Upper Austrian gentry. In 1755 the Batthyány established a Fideikommiss , at the same time the name Batthyány-Strattmann was adopted after a Batthyány had married the heir to the last Count Strattmann.

In 1763 the family with Karl Josef Batthyány was elevated to the Bohemian prince status, a year later also to the imperial prince status including the title Hochgeboren . The House of Batthyány was added to the Carinthian gentry in 1804, and they were given the right to be addressed as a Highness in 1905. Lajos Batthyány was the Hungarian Prime Minister during the revolution in Hungary in 1848 and executed in Pest in 1849 . After 1945 the Batthyánys were largely expropriated in the then socialist countries, but they still have substantial possessions in Burgenland , Austria .

The Batthyány family crypt is located in the Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in the Franciscan monastery in Güssing. The crypt was donated by the couple Aurora and Ádám Batthyány . In addition to the donor couple, over 100 family members are buried here. The crypt in Güssing is the second largest family crypt in Austria after the Imperial Crypt Vienna . Inside is a magnificent sarcophagus in which Karl Batthyany is buried. It was created by the sculptor Balthasar Ferdinand Moll .

Well-known namesake

Field Marshal Karl Josef Batthyány (1697–1772), first prince

Palaces and castles

From 1624 until today the seat of the Batthyány family: Güssing Castle

literature

Batthyány coat of arms (15th century)
  • Rudolf Kropf (ed.): The Batthyány family. An Austro-Hungarian family of magnates from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day. Proceedings of the 25. – 27. Schlaininger Talks from 25. – 29. September 2005, 24.-28. September 2006 and 17. – 20. September 2007, Volume 1: ISBN 978-3-85405-183-1 , Volume 2: ISBN 978-3-85405-198-5 , Landesmuseum Eisenstadt, Eisenstadt 2014.
  • Franz Gall: Austrian heraldry. Handbook of coat of arms science. 2nd improved edition, Böhlau, Wien et al. 1992, ISBN 3-205-05352-4 , p. 267.
  • Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Limburg / Lahn, Starke Verlag
    • Genealogisches Handbuch der Princely Houses , Vol. 3 (8), 1955, pp. 259-262, 9 (50), 1971, pp. 393-399; 13 (90), 1987, pp. 428-435 and 17 (133), 2004, pp. 483-496
    • Genealogical Handbook of the Count's Houses , Vol. 11 (82), 1983, pp. 36-48
    • Adelslexikon , Vol. 1 (53), 1972, pp. 245-246; 17 (144), 2008, p. 56

Web links

Commons : Batthyány family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Batthyány family 17th century on the Batthyány family website, accessed March 20, 2010
  2. ↑ Austria's second largest crypt in Güssing on the ORF Burgenland website on April 7, 2008, accessed on March 6, 2010