The Szentgyörgyi, also Szentgyörgyi és Bazini, was a noble family of the

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946 and was a key part of the Habsburg monarchy from 1526-1918. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the Coro ...

in the 13th to 16th centuries. The ancestor of the family, Thomas descended from the ''gens'' ("clan")

Hont-Pázmány Hont-Pázmány (Hunt-Poznan) was the name of a ''gens'' ("clan") in the Kingdom of Hungary. The ''Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum'' mentions that the ancestors of the family, the brothers Hont (Hunt) and Pázmány (Pazman), originally from the Duchy ...

and he was the head ''(ispán)'' of

Nyitra County Nyitra County (; ; ; ) was an administrative county ( comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory lay in what is now western Slovakia. Geography Nyitra County shared borders with the Austrian land Moravia and Trencsén County, Turó ...

around 1208. The family was named after its two castles, Szentgyörgy (, ) and

Bazin Bazin may refer to Places *Bazin, Zanjan, a village in Iran * Gazan Bazin, Hormozgan, a village in Iran * Kingdom of Bazin, a medieval Beja polity *Bazin, Hungarian name of Pezinok Pezinok (; in the local dialect ''Pezinek''; ; ; ) is a town in ...

(, ), built in the 12th century. The possession of the castles ensured that the family could maintain its aristocratic status even among the anarchic conditions of the kingdom during the period between 1290 and 1320. In 1459, the members of the family became counts of the

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; and afterwards, they were mentioned as counts even in documents issued by the

Kings of Hungary The King of Hungary () was the Monarchy, ruling head of state of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1000 (or 1001) to 1918. The style of title "Apostolic King of Hungary" (''Magyarország apostoli királya'') was endorsed by Pope Clement XIII in 1758 ...

although this title was not recognised in the kingdom at that time.

Sources

* Markó, László: ''A magyar állam főméltóságai Szent Istvántól napjainkig - Életrajzi Lexikon'' ''(''means:'' "The High Officers of the Hungarian State from Saint Stephen to the Present Days - A Biographical Encyclopedia")'';

Magyar Könyvklub Magyar may refer to: * Hungarians * Hungarian language * Magyar tribes, fundamental political units of Hungarians between the period of leaving the Ural Mountains and the entrance of the Carpathian Basin * Magyar (surname), a common Hungarian ethn ...

, 2000, Budapest; . * Engel, Pál: ''Magyarország világi archontológiája (1301-1457)'' ''(''means:'' "The Temporal Archontology of Hungary (1301-1457)")''; História -

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, 1996, Budapest; .

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Szentgyorgyi Voivodes of Transylvania Hungarian noble families Hont-Pázmány (genus)

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