Vay de Vaja (noble family)

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The Vay de Vaja family is a Hungarian noble noble family that continues to this day.

Origin and historical appearance

The family comes from the upper Tisza , where it first appears in 1120 with the Nobilis Osnuth de Vaja. In 1272 there were seven members of the family in Szabolcz County , including Abraham, with whom the family line began. King Sigismund of Hungary, the later German Emperor Sigismund , issued Abraham de Vaja and his cousins ​​Thomas and Stephan in Konstanz in 1418 with a letter of coat of arms, which was increased by King Wladislaus II in 1507 (for Ladislaus Vay, provost of Jaszo and titular bishop of Nicomedia ) and its relatives.

The family received the Hungarian baronate for the brothers Daniel and Nikolaus Vay de Vaja on April 18, 1783 and the Hungarian count on September 11, 1830 for Abraham Vay de Vaja .

coat of arms

In blue on a golden ground, a natural stag with a double cross standing obliquely to the left between its ten-pointed antlers, the head shot diagonally downwards by a gold-feathered arrow, so that the shiny tip emerges from the left eye, accompanied by an eight-pointed golden star at the top right and on the left of a waxing moon, the whole covered by a slanting silver bar, topped with a five-petalled red rose covered with gold and at the bottom with a golden lily; 3 helmets with blue and gold covers on the right and red and silver covers on the left; from the right the stag growing, the cross slanted to the right and the head shot through at an angle to the left, on the middle a closed black flight, on the left the rose between 2 buffalo horns divided by silver and red.

Well-known namesake

Individual evidence

  1. Turul. XXVIII (1910), pages 8-18.
  2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Volume FB VI, page 435, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1976
  3. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XV, Page 197, Starke-Verlag, 2004
  4. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XV, Page 198, Starke-Verlag, 2004
  5. ^ Genealogy. Manual, Volume GB IV, page 365