Kálnoky from Kőröspatak
Kálnoky von Kőröspatak is a Hungarian - Austrian noble family .
history
The Magyar magnate family originally comes from Sepsikőröspatak in the Szeklerland in Transylvania (today Valea Crișului in Covasna County , Romania). The family was first documented in 1252. The ancestral seat was a wooden castle from the 11th to 12th centuries, which was surrounded by a wall and was located above the village, through which the Körös brook flowed. In the middle of the 17th century the family gave up the castle and moved into a newly built castle in the village of Sepsikőröspatak. Kálnok (today: Calnic ) is another part of Sepsikőröspatak. During the Reformation the sex was reformed and later Unitarian before returning to Catholicism. In 1697 the Transylvanian Chancellor Sámuel Kálnoky was raised to the rank of count with the title of Kőröspatak .
In addition to their excellent military and political careers, the Kálnoky were also distinguished by their advantageous marriage alliances. Several members married heiresses of aristocratic families on the verge of extinction, significantly increasing their wealth and influence in Central Europe.
As one of 64 counts, the family had a hereditary seat in the manor house , the upper house of the Imperial Council . Count Gustav Kálnoky (1832–1898) served as Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister from 1881 to 1895.
The property included the Transylvanian family castle Sepsikőröspatak and the castle estate Číčov (Hungarian: Csicsó ) in southern Slovakia, near today's Hungarian border, as well as the Lettowitz Castle in Moravia, acquired in 1820, and the Moravian Castle Prödlitz as a result of marriage . After the communist seizure of power in 1945, the family lost their property, some of which were returned after the 1989 revolution. Tibor Kálnoky (* 1966) got the run-down Sepsikőröspatak ancestral castle back at the end of the 1990s, began the renovation and, as director of the Kalnoky Conservation Trust, is committed to nature and monument protection in the Szeklerland. Since 1992 the Číčov Castle has also been taken over and restored by the family. Lettowitz Castle in Moravia was returned to Alexander Kálnoky after the Velvet Revolution , who sold it in 2004. Prödlitz Castle came through inheritance and retransfer to the Count Belcredi .
Sepsikőröspatak Castle (Valea Crișului), Romania
Číčov Castle , Slovakia
Lettowitz Castle in Moravia, Czech Republic
Prödlitz Castle , Moravia
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Representative
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- Sámuel Kálnoky (1640–1706), Chancellor of Transylvania
- Gustav Kálnoky (1832–1898), Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister
- Hugo Graf Kálnoky (1844–1928), Austro-Hungarian officer
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Kálnoky, the counts, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 10th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1863, p. 403 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Kálnoky, the counts, coat of arms . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 10th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 404 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Révai nagy lexikona (XI. Keds, JÓB-KONTÚR)
- Boris Kalnoky: Ancestral land: or the search for the soul of my family . Droemer HC (February 14, 2011). ISBN 978-3-426-27465-1
Web links
- a Kálnoky családfa genealogy of the family
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website ( Memento of the original dated November 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (dead link).
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 105, CA Starke, 1993, p. 278 ( Google Books ).
- ^ Péter Pál Váradi and Lilla Lőwey: Erdély Székelyföld. Sepsziszentgyörgy és vidéke , Erdély Fotóalbumok, 2005, p. 21 ( Google Books ).
- ↑ Közlöny , Volumes 9-11. Magyar Heraldikai és Genealógiai Társaság, 1891, p. 83 f. ( Google Books ).
