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House of Szilágyi

House of Szilágyi
The ancient coat of arms of the House of Szilágyi.
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Titles
  • Perpetual Count of Beszterce ("perpetuus et liber comes districtus Bistriciensis")

The House of Szilágyi of Horogszeg (Hungarian: horogszegi Szilágyi) was an important Hungarian noble family of the Kingdom of Hungary and of Transylvania.

The Szilágyi family comes from the region of the Szilágy-patak (present-day Sălaj River, part of Romania).

Szilágyi Coat of Arms

Szilágyi Coat of Arms

Coat of Arms of Szilágyi Family

Most specialist agree that the family died out in the Middle Ages. Zoltán W. Vityi says that the noble Szilágyis of Horogszeg who lived in Nyírgelse and Nyírmihálydi (in Szabolcs County in Hungary) in the 1930s were descended from the medieval noble family.

Erzsébet Szilágyi, Queen Mother of Hungary

Michael Szilágyi, Regent of Hungary, Voivode of Transylvania

Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia, Duke of Austria, son of Erzsébet Szilágyi


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