Turul 2013 (A Magyar Heraldikai és Genealógiai Társaság Közlönye)

4. füzet - 4. Summary of Turul 2013 (ford. SZERÉNYI ILDIKÓ)

SUMMARY OF ISSUES, 2013 2013/1.: TAMÁS PÁLOSFALVI: The Vitéz and the Garázda Families. Thoughts on the Origin of the Slavonian Humanists. The present paper examines the family relations which connected to each other the leading Hungarian humanist prelates of a Slavonian origin in the second half of the 15th century. It contrasts the surviving charter material with historical myths which have prevailed so far, and comes to the conclusion that John Vitéz, bishop of Várad and later archbishop of Esztergom, was not a member of the Vitéz family in the county of Körös in Slavonia, and he was not even called Vitéz in his lifetime. It seems to have been John Vitéz of Kamarca, bishop of Veszprém, and a leading intellectual figure in the latter part of the 15th century, whose family name later passed on to the archbishop of Esztergom. Alongside the Vitéz of Kamarca family, the paper also reconstructs in detail the history of the Megyericsei and Garázda families, and, while refuting false identifications and family relationships, proposes some points where connections between the families examined were indeed possible. GYÖRGY LACZLAVIK: The Várday Family of Somogy County in the 16"' Century. Pál Várday archbishop of Esztergom (1526-1549) and royal governor (1542-1549), was one of the most influential and significant politicians of his age. The paper tells the story of his gentry family in Somogy county, which was not mentioned earlier in the professional literature. Instead of gaining land properties, Várday helped his family with official positions. His younger brother, Tamás Várday became Chief of Justice, and after his premature death, he supported his nephew also called Tamás. Even though he put much energy into his education, the boy did not make the career planned by his uncle. The family was not able to emerge from its earlier state, and almost 35 years (1583) after the death of Pál Várday, it became extinct in the male line. ATTILA MÁRFI: History and Documents of the Hamerli Family of Pécs. The study is about the fate of the Hamerli family, which played a significant role in the history of Pécs in the civil age beginning from the 18th century until the middle of the 20th century. The settlement of the family of Swiss and Austrian origin, the founding of the family, making the fortune, the fate of their enterprises (glove-making, engine factory, iron-foundry, ironmongery, catering, other careers of family members), their position in the society of Pécs, and their economical and cultural supporting role unfolds in the study. The author also examines the civil strategies used by the generations following each other. 2013/2.: RICHÁRD HORVÁTH -TIBOR NEUMANN -NORBERT C. TÓTH: „Put the Icing on the Cake". Past, Present and Near Future of the Programme Titled the Secular Archontology of Hungary. The aim of the project going on for several years is to reveal and assemble the most complete possible name lists of the barons, prelates, county authorities, castellans and other members of the court in the medieval Hungary. The volume working up the period between 1301 and 1457 was published in 1996 (by Pál Engel), the period between 1000 and 1301 (by Attila Zsoldos) in 2011. The authors of this study are working on the period between 1457 and 1526, which is expected to be published in 2015. The justifiable changes in the new volumes are listed in the article: the county sheriffs, suffragan bishops, the most important professional literature referring to each fortification are going to be parts of the new volumes, although the court knights and youngsters are excluded. The study gives an example of the future work: the data of the palatines, the archbishops of Kalocsa-Bács and the functionaries of Pozsega County are published. BÉLA PÁLMÁNY: New Methods - New Possibilities. New Methods of Prosopography and its Connection to Traditional Genealogy, Archontology - Based on the Hungarian Parliamentary Almanacs of the Period of Reforms. The author's book on the career of the participants of the Hungarian Parliament during the Period of Reforms was published in 2011. The present article first discusses the British parliamentary elite as an example, and then through the overview of the traditions of the Hungarian parliamentary almanacs, it gets to the methodological review of the recently finished monumental work. In connection with the publication, the author describes his methods and points out the difficulties of this type of research. ELEK SZASZKÓ: Contribution to the History of Krassó County, the Medieval Archontology of the County (1319-1439). The study discusses the archontology of Krassó County in the South-Eastern part of medieval Hungary. The functioning of the county can be traced only until 1439. New facts (mainly making corrections to the years of functions, although in some cases a new name is added to the list of bailiffs) could be added to the already existing facts referring to bailiffs and vice-bailiffs researched earlier by Pál Engel. The sheriffs missing from Engel's works are included and their number also became cleared. Similarly to the majority of the Hungarian counties, the county functioned with four sheriffs. MÁRTON GYÖNGYÖSSY: An Unicorn or a Wolf? Once Again About the Use of the Coat of Arms of the Szapolyais. The author gives a review of the professional literature on the use of the coat of arms of the family, first of all concentrating on the different interpretations of the two long known heraldic emblems of the family; the relation between the wolf and the unicorn and their chronological order. In his earlier study the author argued for the primary of the unicorn, while Éva Gyulai for that of the wolf's. Tibor Neumann - defining the formerly unknown ancient coat of arms of the family (a half cart-wheel and an arm holding a naked sword) - endeavoured to prove the primary of the wolf. Gyöngyössy - his arguments are based on the two Szapolyai tombstones and numismatics - constantly believes that the unicorn precedes the wolf; probably it can be regarded as a mother coat of arms. It is possible that the mother of the Szapolyai brothers came from the Perneszi family, who used a unicorn in the coat of arms. The author disproves Tibor Neumann's supposition with two arguments: the wheel, as a stamped signature on certain coins deriving from Nagybánya cannot be in connection with the ancient coat of arms of the Szapolyais, since the type can be traced after the Szapolyai bailiffs in Nagybánya as well. It was also

Next