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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