The Szilágyi of Horogszeg (Hungarian: horogszegi Szilágyi) was an old and important medieval Hungarian noble family, whose members occupied many significant political and military positions in the Kingdom of Hungary and in the Principality of Transylvania.[1]

Szilágyi
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Titles
  • Perpetual Count of Beszterce ("perpetuus et liber comes districtus Bistriciensis")

History

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The Szilágyi family traces it's origin from the region of the Szilágy-patak (present-day Sălaj River, part of Romania). The family intermarried with other important houses of the region, such as House of Basarab, House of Hunyadi, House of Rozgonyi etc.

Most specialists agree that the family died out in the Middle Ages.[2] According to Zoltán W. Vityi, the noble Szilágyi de Horogszeg family who lived in Nyírgelse and Nyírmihálydi (in Szabolcs County in Hungary) in the 1930s were descendants of this medieval noble family.[2]

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Notable members

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The College of the Hereditary Nobility of Hungary". www.hungarianheraldry.org.
  2. ^ a b A Zürichi Magyar Történelmi Egyesület kiadványa, A Zürichi Magyar Történelmi Egyesület Ötödik Magyar Őstörténeti Találkozó Előadásai és Iratai, Budapest – Zürich, 2005, p. 179, ISBN 963 9349 09 7
  3. ^ Sümegi József (28 December 2012). "Vingárti Geréb Péter" (PDF). Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  4. ^ (Hungarian) Engel, Pál (1996). Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1301–1457, I. ("Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1301–1457, Volume I"). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. p. 29. Budapest. ISBN 963-8312-44-0

Sources

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  • Bokor József (szerk.). A Pallas nagy lexikona. Arcanum: FolioNET Kft. ISBN 963 85923 2 X, 1998
  • Radu R. Florescu, Raymond T. McNally, Dracula: Prince of many faces - His life and his times, p. 130
  • Kisfaludy Károly: Szilágyi Mihály szabadulása (színmű, Pest, 1822)
  • Fraknói Vilmos: Michael Szilágyi, The uncle of King Matthias (Bp., 1913)
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