Both family

The Both family is an Hungarian aristocratic family who gave many personalities. Its members were Magnats Magnificus and medieval barons of the kingdom of Hungary since the 12th century.

History

It gave differents branches :

• Both de Bothfalva (bodafalvai Both), which is issue from Osl de genere Csorna, who had seven sons. The Osl family were one the clans of the seven Magyar tribes, who received the task of colonizing the actual Győr-Moson-Sopron County. The oldest archives of the Both family date from 1282.

• Both de Bajna (bajnai Both) : gave, among others, János Both de Bajna (1493), Ban of Croatia in 1493; András Both de Bajna, his brother, Ban of Croatia repeatedly (1482; Oct 12, 1504 – 1507 and 1510 - Sep 13, 1511).

• Both de Sycava et Bélavar (szikavai és bélavári Both), next Burchard von Bélavary de Sicava, who gave a famous dynasty of pharmacists in Tallinn, in Estonia, in the Raeapteek (1582 - 1911).

Main alliances

Csapy (c. 1465), Csáky (16th century), Bánffy de Alsólendva (15th-16th century), Batthyany (1508), Horváth (about 1555), Istvanffy (c. 1560), Hassaghi (16th), Hagymássy (15th), von Canferbeck (c. 1580), von Spreckelsen (c. 1630), Viczmándy de Izbugya (c. 1630), Dessewffy (1663), von Thieren (1649, 1698), von Wistinghausen (1678, 1747), von Cahl (1679), von Knorring (c. 1748), von zur Mühlen (1757), Rausch de Traubenberg (c. 1770), von Rosenberg (1774), von Kursell (c. 1785), Krakus-Mayerin (1786), von Smitten (c. 1800), Wiemuth (c. 1822), Bukowski von Stolzenburg (c. 1820), von Glehn (1823, 1831), Oláh de Landser (ca 1850), Wojakowski (1824), von Wimpffe (de) (19th-20th)), Delbeck) (1857), Henriot (1887), Noël (1887, 1896), Pallavicini (1901), du Authier (c. 1905).

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Sources

• Magyar Heraldikai és Geneológiai Társaság, Budapest, 1894, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1926
• Récits de famille, Histoire de la Famille Burchard-Bélavàry, by Cdt Marcel Burchard-Bélavary, Berger-Levrault et Cie, Nancy, 1906; La Hulpe, Bruxelles, 2001
• A Bothfalvi B. -család címere by Meliorisz B., Turul, 1901 (netlexicon.hu)
• Nagykanizsa - Romlottvár, by George Szekér dipl. Architecte , 2007, Budapest
• The Business Strategy of Fathers and Sons:A Hungarian Family in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Klement Judit, ed. in AETAS - Journal of history and related disciplines (1-2/2005)

See also

• Nobility and royalty of the Kingdom of Hungary
• Hungarian heraldry
• Austria-Hungary