Balogh de Manko Bük

Balog v. Mankobück or Balog de Manko Bück in its present Germanized form, also known as (mankóbüki) in its Hungarian form, is an Austro-Hungarian family, which belongs to the historical Hungarian nobility, and has its origins in Sopron/Ödenburg.

The family name comes as a result of the genus Balog combined with the mankóbüki feudal family, landowners at the former village of Mankóbük in modern-day Hungary, now called Bük. Their origins date back to the beginning of the Habsburg rule of the Kingdom of Hungary and are documented in the area of Bük since 1552.

Hungarian nobility, as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, ceased to exist after the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy that followed the Austrian defeat of World War One in 1918. The family members then became either Austrian or Hungarian citizens, since the family was established both in Vienna and Budapest, and the new independent states of German-Austria and Hungary were created. Nobility was legally abolisched in German-Austria in 1919 and then later in 1947 in communist ruled Hungary.

The first written mention of the Manko Bük family is recorded in 1351 as "Monko de Byky" and later in the person of "Johannes Manko de Byk" in 1451. The published genealogical family tree of the "Balogh Mankóbüki" traced their roots back to the early 1600s, namely with the brothers Lörinez (1618) and János (1620), even though the jurist Gáspar Balogh de Mankóbük had been documented in present-day Bük back in 1556.

Around 1800 they left Bük due to the military postings of the head of the family, captain Josef Balog de Mankó-Bük (1766 - 1842), who served during the Napoleonic Wars on the Austrian side. He was stationed 1795 in Kőszeg/Güns, which was the seat of the district administration, as lawyer of the Transdanubian District Board (Kőszegi Kerületi Táblanak),. This institution had been founded in 1724 and was responsible for Nobles´s property, inheritance and other financial matters. Their military life took them through Temeswar and Karlsburg in Siebenbürgen, (modern Romania, as well as Moravia (today Czech Republic). They finally settled in the German speaking part of the Austrian Empire. Captain Josef Balog de Mankó-Bük died in Vienna in 1842.

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