The Both family is a Hungarian aristocratic family who gave many personalities. Its members were

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s ''Magnificus'' and medieval

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of the

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since the 13th century. This family is issue from '' Osl de genere

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'', who had seven sons. The Osl family were one of the clans of the seven

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, who received the task of colonizing the actual

Győr-Moson-Sopron County Győr-Moson-Sopron ( hu, Győr-Moson-Sopron megye, ; german: Komitat Raab-Wieselburg-Ödenburg; sk, Rábsko-mošonsko-šopronská župa) is an administrative county (comitatus or '' megye'') in north-western Hungary, on the border with Slovakia ( ...

. The oldest archives of the Both family date from 1282.

History

It gave different branches: *Both de Bothfalva (''bodafalvai Both''). **Bot (Bod, Bud) de Kistarnóc, Felsősebes lord, son of Gotthard (or Lothard) of

. He received in 1285 the castle and lands of Kistarnóc from the King

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, and Panatarnóca by

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in 1310, that area becomes Budfalva (now ''Ботфалва'' in

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). **Péter Both Botfalvai († c. 1417), főispán (''supremus comes'') of

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. **György Both de Botfalvai († c. 1451) főispán de

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. **Both Gyula von Bothfalva (18th–19th century), Chief Justice of

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(''oberster der Richter oberungarischen'' in German). **Menyhert I. Both von Bothfalva (†1882), royal

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(''Königlicher Ankläger'' in German). ** ''Vitéz'' botfalvi Both Gyula, major in the Royal Hussars (''huszárőrnagy'' in Hungarian) during

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. *Both de Bajna (''bajnai Both'', from the precedent) : ** János Both de Bajna († 1493), ban of

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in 1493. He was the son of Stephen Both de Bajna, and had three brothers: Andrew, Ambrus, and Imre. ** András Both de Bajna († 1511), his brother,

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repeatedly (1482; 12 October 1504 – 1507 and 1510 – 13 September 1511). **Magdolna Both de Bajna, daughter of Ambrus, lord of Ászár (1456–1495), she is the wife of János Korotnay (†1494),

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. **Ferencz Both Bajna († 1526), ban. Husband of Agnes

Batthyány The House of Batthyány () is the name of an ancient and distinguished Hungarian Magnate family. Members of this family bear the title Count/Countess ( Graf/Gräfin) Batthyány von Német-Ujvar respectively, while the title of Prince (Fürst) vo ...

, daughter of Boldizsár I. Batthyány,

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of the king of Hungary (1462–1520). **János Both de Bajna, vice-ban of Croatia, captain of

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. He was the son of János Both de Bajna and Apollonia Chapy. His wife was Margit Bánffy de Alsólendva, Miklós' daughter. They had a son, Gábor Both the Bajna, who lives in 1560, but in 1564 is mentioned as dead. **George Both de Bajna (1508- †1552), son of Ferencz, grandson of János Both de Bajna and Apollonia Chapy. George's wife was Borbala Hásshagy, daughter of Dénes Hásshagy captain of the castle of Kanizsa, and Katalin Kerecheny de Kányaföld. **Elisabeth Both de Bajna, daughter of George Both de Bajna and Borbála Hásshágy. Elisabeth first married Márk Horváth de Karnicsaczy in 1560, who died in 1561. After her husband's death, she became the wife of

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(1558–1615), historian, vice-

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of Hungary. **Margit Both de Bajna, daughter of George Both de Bajna and Borbála Hásshágy. She was the wife of Paul Paksy de Pakos,Magyar királyi Kancellária. királyi Könyv.3kötet.1070-1071.p who was son of Job Paksy de Pakos, captain of the fortress of

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, landowner and Justina Hagymássy de Beregszó. **Bálint Both de Bajna, főispán of Arad in 1550. *Both de Sycava and Bélavar (''szikavai és bélavári Both'', from the precedent), next Burchard von Bélavary de Sicava.
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Burchard-Bélaváry family The Burchard-Bélaváry family (''Szikavai és Bélaváry Both/Burchard'' in Hungarian ; ''Burchard von Bellawary de Sycava'' in German) is an aristocratic family of Hungarian origin who gave many personalities. Its comes from the ''Both de Bajn ...

''.

Main alliances

Csapy (c. 1465), Csáky (16th century), Bánffy de Alsólindva (15th–16th century),

(1508), Horváth (c. 1555), Istvánffy (c. 1560), Hassaghi (16th), Hagymássy (15th), von Canferbeck (c. 1580), von Spreckelsen (c. 1630)
Viczmándy
de Izbugya (c. 1630), Dessewffy (1663), von Thieren (1649, 1698), von Wistinghausen (1678, 1747), von Cahl (1679), von Knorring (c. 1748), von zur Mühlen (1757), Rausch de Traubenberg (c. 1770), von Rosenberg (1774), von Kursell (c. 1785), Krakus- Mayerin (1786), von Smitten (c. 1800), Wiemuth (c. 1822), Bukowski von Stolzenburg (c. 1820), von Glehn (1823, 1831)
Oláh
de Landser (''ca'' 1850), Wojakowski (1824)
von Wimpffe (de)
(19th–20th)),

Delbeck The Delbeck Champagne house was established in 1832 by Félix-Désiré Delbeck in Reims. History Delbeck was a Flemish banker who invested in vineyards, and the husband of baronne Balsamie Ponsardin who was a niece of the Veuve Clicquot. Delb ...

) (1857), Henriot (1887), Noël (1887, 1896),

Pallavicini The House of Pallavicini, also known as Pallavicino and formerly known as Pelavicino, is an ancient Italian noble family founded by Oberto II ''Pelavicino'' of the Frankish Obertenghi family. The Pallavicini of Genoa The first recorded member o ...

(1901), du Authier (c. 1905).

Gallery

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Sources

*Béla Meliorisz. ''A Bothfalvi Both család címere'', Turul, 190

*Iván Nagy. ''Magyarország családai'', Pest, 1857-186

*Samu Borovszky. ''Magyarország vármegyéi és városai'', Pest, 1896-191

*Klement Judit. ''The Business Strategy of Fathers and Sons:A Hungarian Family in the 19th and 20th Centuries'', ed. in AETAS – Journal of history and related disciplines (1-2/2005

*Krisztina Tóth. ''Bajna. A Both nemzetség falut teremt'', István Bárdos Ed

*''Magyar Heraldikai és Geneológiai Társaság'', Budapest, 1894, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1926 *Marcel Burchard-Bélavary. ''Récits de famille, Histoire de la Famille Burchard-Bélaváry'', Berger-Levrault & Cie, Nancy, 1906; La Hulpe, Bruxelles, 2001 *George Szekér. ''Nagykanizsa – Romlottvár'', dipl. Architecte, 2007, Budapest

References

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History

Main alliances

Gallery

See also

Sources

References