Miklós Sirokay de Siroka ( hu, Sirokay Miklós), in Romania known as ro, Nicolae Sirokai (? - 1355/58) was a

voivode of Transylvania The Voivode of Transylvania (german: Vojwode von Siebenbürgen;Fallenbüchl 1988, p. 77. hu, erdélyi vajda;Zsoldos 2011, p. 36. la, voivoda Transsylvaniae; ro, voievodul Transilvaniei) was the highest-ranking official in Transylvania wit ...

under the King of

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. His family descends, like 18 others, from the Hungarian noble clan of Aba (Genus Aba). They are: Báthory de Gagy, Bethlen de Iktár, Lipóczy, Nekcsey, Keczer, Kompolthy, ( Chyrke), Csobánkafy, Berthóty, Rhédey ( Cente), Vendéghy, Hedry, Karácsonyi,

Sirokay Sirokay is a Hungarian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Miklós Sirokay (?–1355/58), Voivod of Transylvania 1342-1344 * László Sirokay (?–1487), Bishop of Nicopolis * Zsuzsanna Sirokay (born 1941), pianist See also *Širok ...

, Somosy, Omód and Vitézy. Being a member of the old Hungarian aristocratic family Aba of the Szalác-line, Miklós

, son of Petőcz (modern: ''Petőc''), appears for the first time in historiography in 1338, as Royal Advocate. In the same year he becomes Lord of

Castle of Diósgyőr The Castle of Diósgyőr is a medieval castle in the historical town of Diósgyőr which is now part of the Northern Hungarian city Miskolc. The first Castle of Diósgyőr was built probably in the 12th century and was destroyed during the Mo ...

. In 1342, after his promotion to the King's Chamberlain, he was also made Voivod of

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. In 1344, though,

Louis I the Great Louis I, also Louis the Great ( hu, Nagy Lajos; hr, Ludovik Veliki; sk, Ľudovít Veľký) or Louis the Hungarian ( pl, Ludwik Węgierski; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370. ...

stripped him of this title but Miklós

still remained in his favour. He reappears later in history as a member of the King's court of justice. In 1348, he is mentioned as Baron.

Literature

* ÁLDÁSY, ANTAL: Monumenta Hungariae Heraldica, Magyar Czimeres Emléknek, III. Füzet, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia támogatásával kiadja a Magyar Heraldikai és Genealogiai Társaság, 1926, pg. 48–50. * HÓMAN, BÁLINT/ SZEKFÜ, GYULA: Magyar Történet, II. Kötet, Budapest, Királyi Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda, 1936. * JÄGER-SUNSTENAU, HANNS: General-Index zu den Siebenmacher'schen Wappenbüchern. 1605–1961, Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1964, p. 495. * MARKÓ, LÁSZLÓ: A Magyar Állam Főméltóságai. Szent Istvántól Napjainkig. Életrajzi Lexikon, Budapest, Magyar Könyvklub, 2000, p. 292. * SIEBMACHER, JOHANN: :de:Johann Siebmacher

Siebmachers Wappenbuch ''Siebmachers Wappenbuch'' () is a roll of arms first published in 1605 as two heraldic multivolume book series of armorial bearings or coats of arms of the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire, as well as coats of arms of city-states and some bur ...

, Bd. IV, Abt. 15, Adel von Ungarn IV. Der Adel von Ungarn sammt den Nebenländern der St. Stephans-Krone, Nürnberg, Verlag von Bauer & Raspe, 1891, Taf. 245. * TÖRÖK, GYÖNGYI: Matthias Corvinus und die Renaissance in Ungarn, Schallaburg 1982, pg. 92–93.

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Voivodes of Transylvania 14th-century Hungarian people Hungarian nobility Hungarian noble families 1350s deaths Masters of the doorkeepers Year of birth unknown {{Romania-hist-stub