Sándor (noble family)

Coat of arms of the Counts Sándor

Coat of arms of the Sándor-Metternich family

Palais Sándor in Budapest, today the official seat of the Hungarian President

The Sándor family was an old Hungarian noble family , one of the first and richest magnate families in the country, which died out as a male in the 19th century.

history

The Sándor family presumably comes from the Trenčín county in today's Slovakia . In 1456 it received the Slavnica domain as a royal gift .

In 1706 Gáspár Sándor was given the title of baron , but this branch of the family soon died out. Antal Sándor , from another branch of the family, was made count in 1787 . Móric Sándor (1805–1878), the last male descendant of the family, married Princess Leontine Adelheid Maria Pauline von Metternich-Winneburg (1811–1861), the daughter of Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich . From this marriage came Pauline von Metternich (1836–1921), who married her cousin Richard Clemens von Metternich-Winneburg (1829–1895). This branch was now called Metternich-Sándor von Winneburg . The property of the Sándor family passed to the Metternich family.

Known family members

Baron Menyhért Sándor (1661–1723), Vice Count of Esztergom .
Baron Gáspár Sándor (died around 1723) was ambassador.
Baron István Sándor (1756–1815) was a writer and bibliographer .
Franz-Albrecht Metternich-Sándor , adopted in 1926 by Clementine von Metternich- Sándor (1870–1963)

Possessions

Bajna Castle

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Philipp Fürst zu Eulenburg-Hertefeld , Experiences at German and Foreign Courts , Volume 2, p. 111
^ A Hungarian equestrian life , in: Die Gartenlaube , Heft 2, pp. 25, 28, 29–31

[1] Philipp Fürst zu Eulenburg-Hertefeld , Experiences at German and Foreign Courts , Volume 2, p. 111

[2] A Hungarian equestrian life , in: Die Gartenlaube , Heft 2, pp. 25, 28, 29–31