Zay from Csömör

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Coat of arms of Count Zay von Csömör 1830

The Counts Zay von Csömör, hereditary and banner lords of Zay-Ugrócz were a very old noble family belonging to the Magyar tribes and belonging to the Hungarian Chamber of Magnates from an early age .

history

Emmerich Graf Zay von Csömör
Carl Graf Zay von Csömör

The family of Count Zay von Csömör did not owe their nobility and first possessions to any royal grace, but to the first Arpad possession of Hungary and thus belong to the Magyar tribes ( genus primae occupationis "Loja"). According to Kneschke, this is historically known and can be proven by original documents.

The first documented ancestor was Ruzbold of the Loja family (1196–1235). His great-grandson Peter I. Zay de Themer (1335) was the progenitor of all subsequent family members.

Coat of arms of Count Zay von Csömör after Tyroff
Coat of arms of Count Kollonitz, from 1728 of the line of Laszlo Zay von Csömör

Franz Zay of Chemer, inheritance and banners Lord to Zay-Ugrócz (* 1498, † 10 October 1570) was captain-general of Upper Hungary , Count of Szolnok , commander of the Danube fleet and ambassador to the Sublime Porte , was one of the most powerful dynasties Hungary's and loyal supporter of Emperor Ferdinand I against Johann Zápolya . On July 1, 1560, he and all of his descendants were honored with the hereditary Hungarian imperial baronate and the title of magnate and baron. The family was therefore one of the oldest in terms of magnate dignity. This sex was also one of the few who once fought under their own banner ( Familia banderiata ). At that time the Zay were among the wealthiest in Hungary. Among other things, they owned the Zay-Ugrócz lordship, which consists of 19 localities, as well as a few smaller allodial estates Buczány-Karkócs, Koros-Hélbeny, Eórvystie and Császkocz.

Like the aforementioned Franz Baron Zay and his ancestors, his three sons, Peter, Laszlo and Janos, begotten by Barbara Garay-Banffy, the last of their sex, entered the military career, several of whom and their descendants were chosen to be the Hungarian Imperial Palatine. Laszlo (1547–1590) married Felicitas Freiin von Puchheim (* 1555) and continued the line.

The Zay von Csömör accepted the Augsburg Confession of Faith right at the beginning of the Reformation . Despite the pressures of the times, they remained faithful to Protestantism, which meant that the family lost almost all of the castles and manors they had once owned in 16 counties in Hungary. Lorenz Zay von Csömör (1651-1712) had three sons, of which Andreas (Andras) (1685-1734) the older, Ladislaus (László) (* July 4, 1705, † November 6, 1780 in Vienna) formed the younger line , which is covered below. On November 12, 1830, Emperor Franz I raised the baron Emmerich (Imre) Zay von Csömör, heir and banner lord of Zay-Ugrócz (* January 7, 1765, † August 18, 1831), Imperial Chamberlain, with all of his legitimate descendants of both sexes, in consideration of his ancient origins noted in the diploma ( "... qui e vetustissima húngara nobili prosapia ortum ducis." ) and his military merits in the count. The count had also rendered services to his Slovakian co-religionists - in particular by spreading Slavic Bibles. The Zay von Csömör were the first Evangelical Lutheran counts in Hungary - there were several reformed ones . Carl (Károly), heir of Zay-Ugrócz (* February 12, 1797 - October 8, 1871), son of Emmerich and Marie Elisabeth Freiin Calisius von Calisch and Kis-Birócz (* February 23, 1779 in Tóth-Próna, Hungary; † April 1, 1842 in Ödenburg ), a German poet, was Imperial Chamberlain and from 1840 to 1849 General Inspector of the Protestant churches and schools of the Augsburg Confession in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was the first who dared to publicly express the demand for legal equality between Protestants and Catholics, as well as calling for the union of the two evangelical denominations. Already in March the count energetically pursued his goal, the complete Magyarization of Hungary and its complete separation from Austria with regard to the imperial administration, that is, under the same ruler his own responsible ministry, his own financial administration, his own army, as the main tasks of his life. He carried out the elaboration and unanimous acceptance of a new teaching system, as a result of which the study regulations were adapted to the demands of the time and the Magyar idiom was elevated to the language of instruction. At the Reichstag he repeatedly spoke out in favor of full rights for citizens and peasants, for the equality of all other Christian denominations and even of Jews with Catholics. His children, conceived with Caroline Freiin Prónay von Tót-Prona († 1852), were Ludwig (* December 18, 1821), an Imperial and Royal Officer, married on May 17, 1853 to Countess Maria Berényi von Karanes-Berény, Albert (* June 22, 1825 ), kk Rittmeister, Franz (* October 2, 1829) then Eleonore (* April 3, 1831), and Georg (* February 27, 1833).

In addition to this older line of the Zay tribe, there was a younger line, as mentioned above, but which was adopted by Lorenz's son Ladislaus (László) (* July 4, 1705; † November 6, 1780 in Vienna ) from his second marriage (1684) with Maria Polyxena Countess von Kollonitz (born August 22, 1661 in Großschützen ) assumed the name and the Catholic faith of Count Kollonitz von Kollógrad. The famous church prince Sigismund von Kollonitz had adopted him as a child with a special consensus and privilege of Emperor Karl VI. of June 12, 1728 as the son of his father's half-sister. He made him the heir of his dominions on the condition that he and all his descendants, with the complete omission of their previous name and coat of arms, should only call and write Count and Countess von Kollonitz von Kollograd . After the cardinal's death (April 12, 1751), goods, names and coats of arms were transferred to the new Kollonitz tribe. From then on Ladislaus called himself Baron Zay von Csömör, Count Kollonitz von Kollograd. He left Count Maximilian Kollonitz von Kollógrad (born September 13, 1761 - March 4, 1827), Imperial Field Marshal Lieutenant (February 12, 1809) from his second marriage with Walburga Countess von Hamilton († February 19, 1789 ).

According to the current state of knowledge, both lines seem to have died out in the male line.

coat of arms

1830: Shield divided lengthways, red on the right, blue on the left, with a shield base divided lengthways by silver and gold, the latter without a picture. In the right half of the red shield there is a silver tin tower protruding from the dividing line, with a window and an open gate, against which a ladder is placed, on which a warrior clad in blue, covered with a blue sackcloth turning the tip to the right, rises, who stands up with his left hand supports the ladder, but holds a burning torch in his right hand. In the left blue half of the shield there is a golden crown, from which two red-clad arms grow up, which hold two sabers placed in the St. Andrew's cross in their fists. Between the raised arms are three golden crowns, one above the other. The shield wears three crowned helmets; from the right helmet grows up the blue-clad warrior of the right half of the shield, who holds the burning torch in his right hand, but puts his left hand in his side. On the middle helmet is an open eagle's face, divided transversely by silver and gold, and the left helmet bears the crowns, arms and swords of the left half of the shield. The helmet covers are red and silver on the right, blue and gold on the left. The shield base (the designation of the same as field 3 and 4 is, according to the above illustration, heraldically incorrect, since the transverse division of the shield does not take place in the middle, but in the lower part) contains the original coat of arms of the family. The shield was divided lengthways by silver and gold, and on the shield was an iron helmet with an open eagle's flight divided by silver and gold. In the 14th century the coat of arms was increased with a red field in which there is a silver tower, which a warrior with a burning torch climbs on a ladder. When the baronate was acquired, in 1560, a blue field was added in which two arms grow out of a golden crown, protecting three golden crowns with crossed swords. When raised to the rank of count in 1830, the overall coat of arms was adorned with a princely coat on which the count's crown rests. The gene also has this information from the family. Pocket book of the count's houses (1854, p. 888), and the statement in the year 1848, p. 765, that the crowns were silver crowns, stands out.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation , 3rd volume, AZ, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1854, pp. 459–461.
  2. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Zay von Csömör, the counts . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 59th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1890, p. 224 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b Johann Jakob Heinrich Czikann , Franz Gräffer (Ed.): Oesterreichische National-Encyklopaedie, or alphabetical presentation of the most remarkable peculiarities of the Austrian Empire , Volume 6, WZ and supplement, commissioned by the Friedrich Beck'schen Universitäts-Buchhandlung, Vienna 1837 , P. 224.
  4. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Zay von Csömör, Emmerich Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 59th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1890, p. 225 ( digital copy ).
  5. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach: "Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich", 59th part, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1890, p. 221 f.
  6. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation , 1st volume, AK, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1852, p. 454
  7. ↑ Iván Nagy : Magyarország családai czimerekkel és nemzékrendi táblákkal , German: The families of Hungary with coats of arms and family tables , Vol. XII, Moriz Ráth publishing house, Pest 1860, pp. 329-340 .