Gorjanski

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Garay or Garai (Croatian: Gorjanski) were a noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary, a brancs of the Dorozsma clan, with notable members in the 14th and 15th centuries. The name means of Gara / Gorja, their estate.

By origin the Garay family was Magyar (Hungarian), but since they frequently administered the southern regions of the Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen, the Croatian rendition of the surname is often used.

Nicholas Garay (Croatian: Nikola Gorjanski, Hungarian: Garay Miklós), the chief governor of Bratislava, was a palatine to the King of Hungary. He was killed in 1386.

His first son John was the governor of Temes and Pozsega banates. His second son Nicholas II was the ban of Mačva, Usora, Soli (modern Tuzla), Slavonia, Croatia and married to Jelena Lazarević, daughter of Serbian Prince Lazar. In 1416 Sigismund extended their armorial bearings showing the Order of the Dragon and the Order of the Scarf. He presented the patent to his brother-in-law Garai Miklós. Nicholas II's granddaughter Anna was engaged to Matthias Corvinus.

Nicholas I also married his daughters well: Ilona was married to the magnate Nicholas Szechy, and Dorothea married Nicholas Frankopan, ban of Croatia and Dalmatia.

Nicholas' uncle Paul (Croatian: Pavao, Hungarian: Pál), was also a ban of Mačva. His successors to this position were his son-in-law John Alsáni and his grandson Paul Alsáni. His son Paul Bánfi de Gara was the governor of Zala, as was his other son Stephen and in turn his son Paul, whose son Dezső was another ban of Mačva.