Csányi family
| House of Csányi | |
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| Country | Kingdom of Hungary |
| Parent house | gens Hahót |
| Founded | 1325 |
| Founder | Csák I |
| Final ruler | Ladislaus IV |
| Dissolution | 1849 |
Csányi or Csány was a noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary, which first appeared in the early 14th century and had estates and villages mostly in Zala County.
The Csányi family originated from the notable gens Hahót. According to the fourteenth-century chronicle composition, the founder of the kindred, knight Hahold descended from the Counts of Orlamünde, arriving to Hungary in 1163 upon the invitation of Stephen III to help to defeat the rebelled Csák kindred. Hahold's great-grandson Csák I was one of the most influential members of the kindred. He built the fort of Csáktornya (today Čakovec, Croatia) in the late 1250s. However Ottokar II of Bohemia then the increasing powerful Kőszegi family captured the clan's all castles in the following years, causing the Buzád branch's move into Center Zala. Csák II settled down in Csány (today Zalacsány) after Ottokar's invasion, possibly he was that family member who built the local Zsidóvár ("Zsidó Castle"). The Csányi family (lit. "of Csány") ascended from there. Csák III was first referred to as "Csányi" ("Chaak de Chan") in a charter of 1325 by Elizabeth of Poland, Queen of Hungary, thus he was considered as the first member of the family (Csák I Csányi in genealogical sense after that).
Csák I had two sons Egyed and Peter, both were first mentioned in 1348. The living members of the Csányi family (Csák's two sons and four grandsons) were among those Hahót kinships (also including the Söjtöris and Szabaris) who protested against that after a praefectio in filium by his father Nicholas V (or Nicholas Hahóti, a cousin of Csák III) in 1365, Klara granted the village of Buzádsziget. After a court decision they forced to hand over their property in Buzádsziget and Hahót to her. In the following decades, the family was only sporadically mentioned by contemporary records. In 1419, it was reported that Csák II Csányi's soldiers looted the Pető de Gerse family's serfs on their way to Vasvár. In the same year Sigismund of Luxemburg referred to Csák II and Blaise I as "royal men". The two nobles had several conflicts with the Pető de Gerse family over the next years. However, Blaise I's son John IV appeared as a prominent familiar to the Pető de Gerse family either in 1453 and 1459. However, by 1468, he belonged to the household of the powerful Kanizsai family, which dominated the politics of Zala County until the end of the 15th century.
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