Nádasdy

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Nádasdy de Fogáras 1625

The Counts of Nadásdy de Fogáras and Nádasdy de Nádasd et Fogarasföld are Hungarian magnates - and then also Austrian counts, whose roots go back well into the Middle Ages .

Family history

Franz de Nadasdy II.
Schächtitz Castle (Csejte vára, Čachtický hrad)

The origin of the family, which is one of the oldest and most respected families in Hungary, lies in the dark of history, but according to the historian and Jesuit Georg Pray it is usually assumed that the family comes from England and that, like Andreas Lehotzky in his "Stemmatographia nobilium familiarium regni Hungariae" cited, the ancestor of the same, Ospetinus, came from Britain with the son of the King of England, Edward I, (901-942) to Croatia. From misunderstood information from Hungarian writers, the earlier claim of the genealogical pocket book of the count's houses (born 1825–1840) arose that the family came from a son of King Edward I, who settled in Hungary. According to Pray, a Nádasdy (Nádasd) was bishop of Agram around 1177 and another around 1200 Ban of Croatia. Lehotzky, in turn, referred to the family's old coat of arms and the information given to him by the Croatian historian Boldizsar Kerchelich, which read: “Antenatum Butikonem Banum maritimum a Croatis dictum, quod Anatem illis denotat, unde pro Insigni anatem gerere Croatis Butico dictam, inde Banus Butiko 1250. “The family's earlier predicate: Prodarics de Nádasd, was written after the place Prodarics Kreuzer County .

The namesake of the Nádasdy family are first mentioned in the first half of the 13th century. The following are known: Imre with his sons Him, Itemer, Stefánd, who lived around 1233, and Tódor and Valkomer, who died before 1245. Said to 1291-1293 Domokos, a descendant of Imre, the progenitor of the sidelines , "Darabos de Nádasd". Another sideline developed from the descendants of Simon Nádasdy, who died before 1275. Often mentioned in documents between 1324 and 1376, Pető Gersei, who was married to Margit Hidvégi, is considered to be the progenitor of the “Pethő de Gerse” family. In 1229 a certain Petan sold most of his property to a member of the Nádasdy family. The buyer as well as his three sons, Vencel / Venceslav, Raszló / Vraslav and László / Ladislav, from then on partially used the predicate of Pethenegh . László Nádasdy von Pethenegh is mentioned in 1236 and is the ancestor of the main line of the Nádasdys.

Furthermore, the ancestry of the current family members can be found, among other things, from Lehotzky's pedigree. It extends from the middle of the 14th century to the beginning of the 18th, which included the following members: Laurentius Comes de Csupon et Nádasd ac Peteneg dictus, aliis Pecseneg a Pacsinacitis, then Thomas (I.) 1390, Andreas, Caspar and Ladislaus.

Thomas II (1498 - June 2, 1562), son of Francis I, was a palatine of the Hungarian crown. His son Franz II (* 1555 - † January 4, 1604) was a Hungarian military leader. He married on May 8, 1575 Erzsébet Countess Báthory de Ecsed (1560–1614) the legendary "Blood Countess". They had five children, two sons and three daughters. The Countess's will provided for the division of her property among her children and the appointment of her son Paul as the family owner. So the assets of the Ecsed Báthory fell to the Nádasdy family.

Paul Count Nádasdy de Fogáras (1598–1633), eldest son of the above, was elevated to the status of Hungarian count by Emperor Ferdinand II in 1625 together with his brother Andreas . He married Judith von Forgach in the first marriage, in the second Judith Countess of Revay de Reva.

The Count's house Nádasdy-Fogáras later flourished in two lines. The first tribe included the descendants of Count Michael II (born September 19, 1746 - † June 9, 1826), from his marriage to Maria Theresa Countess von Colloredo-Waldsee on January 7, 1769, (* June 4, 1751; † July 13, 1831). From this marriage arose, in addition to two daughters, three sons: Count Leopold II (* October 3, 1772; † September 14, 1836), heir to Fogáras, governor in the Kingdom of Hungary, Imperial Chamberlain and Privy Councilor as well as administrator of the Comoros chief duke, married on September 9, 1799 to Theresia Countess von Pálffy (* September 1, 1768; † August 1829), Michael III. and Franz Xaver (April 24, 1778; † March 7, 1857), Imperial Chamberlain and Privy Councilor, married on October 11, 1807 to Juliana Countess von Schmiedegg (June 24, 1789; † June 16, 1845).

Michael III (* September 6, 1775; † March 18, 1854) was Imperial and Royal Chamberlain, Privy Councilor, first Chamberlain of the Kingdom of Hungary, then Minister of State and Conference of the Habsburg Monarchy , married on June 10, 1800 to Countess Antonie von Zichy (* April 24th 1776) was elevated to the status of Austrian count on October 16, 1828 in Vienna. He owned the combined majorates Nádasd-Ládany, Lépseny, Pere, Nána and Dudar. His son Franz Seraphin von Nádasdy (April 1, 1801 - November 1, 1883) was the Imperial and Royal Minister of Justice from 1857 to 1860, then President of the Imperial Council and finally from November 7, 1861 to 1865, Court Chancellor for Transylvania.

The second tribe was founded by Thomas II (born June 24, 1792), kk chamberlain and officer, married on May 6, 1813 to Jacobine Countess Grovestin.

coat of arms

1625: In the blue shield, between reeds on both sides, a right-facing, wild duck of natural color with outstretched wings rises from high water. Above the shield there is a count's crown on which a crowned helmet rises, which carries the wild duck of the shield. The helmet covers are blue-silver. The motto is: "SI DEUS PRO NOBIS QUIS CONTRA NOS" (If God is for us, who can be against us?)

Tyroff (NAW-W II. 163) places green grass in the base of the shield and green raised ground in the middle of the water, on which stands a black duck with a golden stripe around its neck, as indicated. A reed grows out of the water to the right and left. The sign shows blue sky etc.

Name bearer

Trunk line

Ferenc I. Nádasdy

A. Thomas Nádasdy (* 1498; † 1562) ∞ Ursula Kanizsai († 1571)
B. Ferenc II. Nádasdy (* 1555; † 1604) ∞ Elisabeth Báthory (* 1560; † 1614)
C1. Anna (* 1585; † 1615) ∞ Miklós Zrinyi
C2. Ursula (died as a child)
C3. Andreas (died as a child)
C4. Katharina (* ~ 1594) ∞ Georg Drugeth from Homonna
D1. Elisabeth ∞ Lázló Révay
C5. Paul Nádasdy (* 1598; † 1633) ∞ Judith Révay
D1. Ferenc III. Nádasdy (* 1625 at Čachtice Castle ; † April 30, 1671 in Bécs ) ∞ Julia Esterházy (* 1644)
E1. Ferenc IV. Nádasdy
F1. Ferenc V. Nádasdy ∞ Maria Rottal
F2. Ferenc VI. Nádasdy
G1. Ferenc VII. Nádasdy (* 1799; † 1800)
F3. Thomas Nádasdy
E2-11. 10 more children

literature

  • Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: Imperial and Imperial and Royal Generals (1618–1815) , Austrian State Archives / A. Schmidt-Brentano 2006.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relationship", 3rd volume, AZ, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1854, p. 269 ff.
  2. ↑ Andreas Lehotzky: "Regni Hungariae et partium eidem annexarum statuum et ordinum seu nobilium familiarium Stemmatographia", pars II., Printed by Simon Petrus Weber, Posonii 1798, p. 243 ff.
  3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1910, p. 727
  4. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation", 3rd volume, AZ, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1854, p. 269