The House of Dragoș, also known as the House of Drăgoșești ( hu, Drágfy, Drágffy, Drágffi, Drágfi), was founded by
Dragoș (also known as ''Dragoș Vodă''
[Brezianu, Andrei and Spânu, Vlad (2007) "Dragoş Vodă (?–ca. 1353)" ''Historical Dictionary of Moldova'' (2nd ed.) Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, USA, pages 124-125, ] or ''Dragoș of Bedeu''
), who was traditionally considered the first ruler
or prince of
Moldavia
Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and former principality in Centr ...
and who was ''
Voivode
Voivode (, also spelled ''voievod'', ''voevod'', ''voivoda'', ''vojvoda'' or ''wojewoda'') is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe since the Early Middle Ages. It primarily referred to the me ...
'' in
Maramureș
or Marmaroshchyna ( ro, Maramureș ; uk, Мармарощина, Marmaroshchyna; hu, Máramaros) is a geographical, historical and cultural region in northern Romania and western Ukraine. It is situated in the northeastern Carpathians, alon ...
.
[Ro: http://www.probasarabiasibucovina.ro/Carti/IstoriaMaramuresului.pdf]
Notable members
*
Dragoș, Voivode of Moldavia
*
Sas of Moldavia
*Giula of Giulești
*
Balc of Moldavia
*
Drág, Count of the Székelys
*
Bartolomeu Dragfi (Bertalan Drágffy)
*
John Drágfi
*Gáspár Drágffy (1506-1545), fő
ispán of
Közép-Szolnok.
*Anna Drágffy (1522-1527), spouse of Kristóf
Frangepán / Frankopan (†1527),
Ban
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** Imperial ban (''Reichsacht''), a form of outlawry in the medieval Holy Roman ...
of
Croatia
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*Julianna Drágffy (1498-1500), spouse of András
Báthori de Ecsed, Master of the cavalry (''Lovászmester''), fő
ispán of
Szabolcs et
Szatmár.
Coat of arms and history
''
Voivode
Voivode (, also spelled ''voievod'', ''voevod'', ''voivoda'', ''vojvoda'' or ''wojewoda'') is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe since the Early Middle Ages. It primarily referred to the me ...
''
Dragoş I de
Bedő
Bedő ( ro, Bedeu) is a village in Hajdú-Bihar County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.
Geography
It covers an area of and has a population
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, wh ...
voivode of
Máramaros Prince of
Moldavia
Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and former principality in Centr ...
and his successor son
Szász de
Béltek Prince of Moldavia,
- bore the blue (azure) escutcheon with the gold crescent, gold stars and gold arrow on their coat of arms.
Other notable scions of Dragoş I were
Bartolomeu Drágfi of Béltek, ''
Comes Perpetuus'' of Közép-Szolnok County (1479–1488),
Voivode of Transylvania and
''Comes'' of the Székely people (1493–1499),
who had distinguished himself earlier as a royal knight of the Hungarian
Royal Court
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defeating the
Ottoman Turks
The Ottoman Turks ( tr, Osmanlı Türkleri), were the Turkic founding and sociopolitically the most dominant ethnic group of the Ottoman Empire ( 1299/1302–1922).
Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks remains scarce, ...
at the
Battle of Breadfield (1479) together with
Pál Kinizsi,
István Báthory,
Vuk Branković
Vuk Branković ( sr-cyr, Вук Бранковић, , 1345 – 6 October 1397) was a Serbian medieval nobleman who, during the Fall of the Serbian Empire, inherited a province that extended over present-day southern and southwestern Serbia, enti ...
and
Basarab Laiotă cel Bătrân.
[Joan cavaler de Puscariu - Date istorice privitoare la familiile nobile române (English: ''History of the Romanian Noble Families''). Editura societății culturale Pro Maramures "Dragoș Vodă", Cluj-Napoca, 2003 (in Romanian).]
- Prof. Alexandru Filipascu de Dolha și Petrova - Istoria Maramureșului (English: ''History of Maramureş''), Editura "Gutinul" Baia Mare, 1997 (in Romanian).
- Wyrostek, Ludwik - Rod Dragow-Sasow na Wegrzech i Rusi Halickiej (English: ''Clan Dragow-Saxon in Hungary and neighbouring Galicia''). RTH t. XI/1931-1932 (in Polish). At the time of King
Matthias Corvinus
Matthias Corvinus, also called Matthias I ( hu, Hunyadi Mátyás, ro, Matia/Matei Corvin, hr, Matija/Matijaš Korvin, sk, Matej Korvín, cz, Matyáš Korvín; ), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490. After conducting several m ...
' death, Bartholomew Drágfi of Béltek was among the wealthiest landowners of the country, three castles, two manor houses, eight market towns and about 200 villages were in his property.
His estates in Közép-Szolnok and
Szatmár counties included the castles of Kővár and
Erdőd
Ardud ( hu, Erdőd, Hungarian pronunciation: ; german: Erdeed) is a town situated in Satu Mare County, Transylvania, Romania. It administers five villages: Ardud-Vii (), Baba Novac (), Gerăușa (), Mădăras () and Sărătura ().
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together with the large lordships surrounding them, and further, the castles of
Sólyom and the ''
castellum
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* a small Roman fortlet or tower,C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War; 2,30 a diminutive of (' military camp'), often used as a watchtower or signal station like on Hadrian's Wall. It should be distinguished from ...
'' of Csehi.
Another important family member, among others, was
John Drágfi of Béltek ''Comes'' of
Temes County
County of Temes ( Hungarian: ''Temes'', Romanian: ''Timiș'', Serbian: ''Тамиш'' or ''Tamiš'', German: ''Temes'' or ''Temesch'') was an administrative county ( comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in southwestern Roma ...
in 1525, who died 1526 in the
Battle of Mohács
The Battle of Mohács (; hu, mohácsi csata, tr, Mohaç Muharebesi or Mohaç Savaşı) was fought on 29 August 1526 near Mohács, Kingdom of Hungary, between the forces of the Kingdom of Hungary and its allies, led by Louis II, and thos ...
.
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