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 ...
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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 ...
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Drág, Count of the Székelys Drag Dragfi de Beltek was Count of the Székelys from 1387 until 1390. He was a member of the House of Dragoș and a descendant of Dragoș, Voivode of Moldavia.
Sources
*Joódy Pál - Cercetarea calitắții de nobil in comitatul Maramures. Anii 1 ...
John Drágfi John Drágfi de Beltek was Judge Royal of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1525 until 1526 and also Count of Kraszna County from 1515 until 1526, Master of the cupbearers and Count of Közép-Szolnok County. He was a member of the House of Dragoș and ...
Ban
Ban, or BAN, may refer to:
Law
* Ban (law), a decree that prohibits something, sometimes a form of censorship, being denied from entering or using the place/item
** Imperial ban (''Reichsacht''), a form of outlawry in the medieval Holy Roman ...
of
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*Julianna Drágffy (1498-1500), spouse of András Báthori de Ecsed, Master of the cavalry (''Lovászmester''), fő ispán of
Szabolcs Szabolcs may refer to:
* Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, current administrative unit (county) of Hungary
*Szabolcs (village) in Hungary's Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county
*Szabolcs (county), the historical administrative unit of the Kingdom of Hungary
*Szabo ...
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 ...
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, w ...
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 ...
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, ...
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Battle of Breadfield
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István Báthory
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People with the given name Nobles, palatines and judges royal
* Stephen I of Hungary (c. 975–1038), last grand prince of the Hungarians and first ki ...
Basarab Laiotă cel Bătrân
Basarab III cel Bătrân ("the Old"), also known as Laiotă Basarab or Basarab Laiotă (? – 22 December 1480) was Voivode of the principality of Wallachia in the 1470s, repeating the achievement of Dan II in being elected by the boyars as ...
.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 mi ...
' 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 a ...
'' of Csehi. Another important family member, among others, was John Drágfi of Béltek ''Comes'' of Temes County 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 those ...