The Banffy family is an ancient Hungarian noble family, whose members occupied many important political positions in the Kingdom of Hungary and later within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The Banffy family is an ancient Hungarian noble family, whose members occupied many important political positions in the Kingdom of Hungary and later within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Their first recorded ancestor Dénes came from the gens Tomaj and was first mentioned in the 12th century. [1] His grandson, Dénes Losonczi, who lived in the 13th century, was founder of the Losonczi family. [2] His great-grandson László de Losoncz (1368-1427), founded his own line of the family. From the 14th century onward, this line bears the name Bánffy de Losoncz. [3] They intermarried with other most important families of the Kingdom of Hungary and later of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Members of the family held the title of Baron, granted to them in 1729 by Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor. [4] On 20 May 1855, members of elder line of the family were upgraded to the title of Count in the Austrian Empire, granted to them by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. [5] The title was heritable by all legitimate male line descendants.
The Waldersee family is an old German noble family, representing illegitimate branch of the House of Anhalt-Dessau.
Baron Dezső Bánffy de Losonc was a Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1895 to 1899.
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Count Miklós Domokos Pál Bánffy de Losoncz was a Hungarian nobleman, liberal politician, and historical novelist. His books include The Transylvanian Trilogy, and The Phoenix Land.
The Lackfi, Lacković, Laczkfi, Laczkfy or Laczkovich were a noble family from Kingdom of Hungary and Croatia, which governed parts of Transylvania and held the title of Voivode of Transylvania in the 14th century. The Lackfi family were one of the most prestigious families in 14th-century Kingdom of Hungary during the reign of the Capetian House of Anjou. The family also gave several Bans of Croatia and Bulgaria, and held the titles of Palatine of Hungary and Prince of Zadar, Count of San Severino and Serra, as well as a Viceroy to Kingdom of Naples. After Sigismund's accession to the throne and the Bloody Sabor of Križevci (1397), the family lost all of its political influence.
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