Batthyány family collection

Batthyány family collection.

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ARC. 4* 2031

Batthyány family collection

Fonds Record

The Batthyány family, including today about 60 namesake, originates from ancient Hungarian territories. They have a strong family identity. They live in countries like Austria, Hungary and Germany, but in other parts of the world too. They are in close contact with each other and hold annual family gathering. The Batthyány family's existence is continuously evincible since 1398 when the Esztergomer castellan after his marriage got hold the settlement Battyán, whom the family had named himself. The Batthyánys, a high aristocratic family that served as a meeting point of different social classes, contributed between the 16th and the 20th century to the continuity of the previously Turkish splintered Hungary, not only by their private armies and organs of governance, but also by their tribute to the Hungarian cultural, educational, political and medical history. In the second half of the 17th century, when emperor Leopold the First expelled the Jews from Lower Austria and later also forbade them to settle in the free royal cities, the Batthyánys were those big landowners beside the noble Esterházy and Zichy families, who welcomed the Jews in the western part of Hungary and accepted them to settle on their properties seeing an economic advantage in their activities. The privileges given by the Batthyány family, which laid down the duties and rights of these immigrants, were also modeled for communities established after subsequent settlements.

The material was deposited in the National Library presumably in the late 40s or early 50s of the 20st century.

The material is mainly in Latin, Hungarian and German, but Czech and French are also represented in a very few letters and documents.

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