Hermán (genus)
| Genus (gens) Hermán | |
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| Country | Kingdom of Hungary |
| Founded | 996 |
| Founder | Herman |
| Cadet branches |
a, Senior branch
b, Meszes branch
c, Pestes branch
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a, Senior branch
b, Meszes branch
c, Pestes branch
Hermán (also Hermány, Herman or Hermann) was the name of a gens (Latin for "clan"; nemzetség in Hungarian) in the Kingdom of Hungary. The powerful Lackfi family ascended from this clan.
The Hermány kindred originate from Nuremberg. They are of quite high nobility and came to Hungary with Queen Gisela.
This clan of Herman of Alamannia came with the Queen Keisla. They are free men from Nurumburg, poor in lands.
Medieval Hungarian chronicles preserved its origin from the Duchy of Bavaria. Accordingly, the ancestor of the Hermán kindred, knight Herman originated from Nuremberg, who escorted Gisela of Bavaria to Hungary in 996. She became the wife of Stephen I of Hungary, the future first King of Hungary. Following that marriage, Herman stayed in Hungary and received land donations in Vas County. It is presumable that Herman also participated in Stephen's civil war against his relative Koppány in the following year, similarly to other German knights, for instance Vecelin and brothers Hont and Pázmány, ancestors of the Hont-Pázmány kindred.
The narration of the medieval chronicles about the kindred's origin is unverifiable, but historian János Karácsonyi argued, the Hermáns definitely settled down in Hungary ahead of the Héder and Hahót clans, also of German origins, who came to the kingdom in the middle of the 12th century and their lands laid in the "gyepűelve", a mostly uninhabited or sparsely inhabited area beyond the Austrian border, while the Hermáns were granted estates in the inner parts of Transdanubia. Other historians considered, knight Herman was a descendant of the Diepoldinger kinship and its cadet branch, the House of Raabs which ruled the Burgraviate of Nuremberg in the 12th century, until their extinction around 1191, as both families used the depiction of dragon in their coat-of-arms.
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