Turul 1998 (A Magyar Heraldikai és Genealógiai Társaság Közlönye)

1-2. füzet - 2. Kisebb rovatok - Pandula Attila: "A császár lovassága" (Kiállítás a marchfeldi kastélyban) - Pandula Attila: "Fortitudini - der Tapferkeit" (Kiállítás Deutsch-Wagramban)

TURUL Volume 71 No. 1-2. issue of 1998 SUMMARY In the third (last) part of his series "Doctor Dy­nesties" Károly Kapronczay provides an encyclopae­dia-like overview of the walk of life of the doctor members of the Spielenber, Pápái-Páriz, Hambach, Hellenbach, Moller and Rayger families who were active in the 17th—18th centuries. Based primarily on the data of parish registers, Gábor Merényi-Metzger compiled the key personal data of 13 members of the Count Beleznay family (from the 18th—19th centuries) who were buried in the Lutheran church of Pilis, a village in Pest county. Prior to the war the crypt was regarded as the monu­ment of the village. However, it was devastated and pillaged in 1945. Later it was locked and since then it is inaccessible. Klára Gárdonyi Csapodiné seeks the origin of the Vitéz (Valiant) name attached to the name of János Zrednai, bishop of Várad, later cardinal of Eszter­gom (died 1472) who was one of the most outstand­ing humanist prelates of Hungarian history in the 15th century. Zrednai himself never used this name version. It is probable that Bonfini was the first to call him by this name. In spite of the fact that the origin of the name Vitéz is still unclear, it is used wi­dely and generally. Szilveszter Sólymos clears the origin of an oil­painting form the 18th century which depicts the Hungarian Holy Crown. The painting was previously published in Turul (volume 1997, issue 1-2) by Attila Pandula. Based on the variants of the painting which are housed in Trencsćn (Trenčin, Slovakia), the leng­thy Latin inscription can be reconstructed and con­strued. The text of the painting was edited around 1621/1622 by Dániel Hradecius (in office between 1608-1622) secretary to Péter Révay, keeper of the Holy Crown (lived 1568-1622). The inscription de­scribes the history of the crown in the period 1608 to 1620 in a manner as if the Holy Crown would speak of itself. Attila Pandula introduces the exhibition organised in the Budapest Museum of Military History to com­memorate the 240th anniversary of the foundation of the Mária Terézia Order. Representing an extremely high esteem, the highest military medal of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (later Monarchy) was awarded between 1757-1931 (and in 1944) in a limi­ted number, primarily to reward actual battle war merits. The majority on Order's relics are preserved in Vienna. This is why it is very important that part of the material displayed now at he Budapest exhibition survived in private hands (at the inheritors). Ac­cordingly, never before could the general public see them. The article of József Deák Varga provides addi­tional data on the family origins of Ádám Pálóczi Horváth (1760-1809), a renowned Hungarian poet of the age of enlightenment. Further, he presents diffe­rent versions of the family's coat of arms. Márton Szluha compiled the family tree of the descendants of Miklós Gergye who died in 1611 at Nagykajd (Vas county). The archival sources used included nobility investigation minutes, nobility con­sription lists, donation deeds and parish registers.

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