Erdődy
Erdődy (also Erdödy, Erdődi) is the name of a Hungarian noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary (most notably in Croatia). The Habsburg Monarchy granted them the title Graf / Gräfin.
The family was first raised in a document dated 1187, under the name of Bakoch Generated Erdewd. They received the title of Count in 1485. (The first hereditary count in Hungary was Janos Hunyadi in 1453 by the king Ladislas V).The family origins from the town of Erdőd (Romanian: Ardud, German: Erdeed) which is in the region Szatmár (now Satu Mare in Romania). They are barons of Monyorokerek (German: Eberau) and counts of Monoszló. Monyorokerek is a small village in the south of Burgenland (Austria) near the Hungarian border. Today Monoszló is in Croatia.
The Erdődy family originated from the Bakócz family. The Bakóczs were originally serfs of the Drágffy in Szatmár county. They acquired wealth, when Tamás Bakócz became the archbishop of Esztergom. After Tamás Bakócz's death his estates were divided and the Southern branch took the name Erdődy. More members of the family held important offices, we can find judges of the royal court, Croatian bans, bishops and generals among the members of the family. From 1607 they held the capitancy of Varaždin.
Most of the Erdődy family fled during the First World War to notably France and the USA after the Austro-Hungarian empire took side with Germany.
Notable members included:
- Petar Erdödy (b. 1504, d. 1557)
- Toma Erdödy (b. 1558, d. 1624)
- Nikola Erdödy (d. 1693)
- Sidonija Erdödy Rubido (b. 1819, d. 1884)
The Palais Erdödy was acquired by the Erdődy family from the Esterházys.
After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Erdődy's possession in the successor states of the monarchy decreased, which was mostly due to forced expropriation by the Bela Kun Regime. The final collapse was World War II. During World War II the Bavarian royal family who are relatives of the Erdődy family stayed in the castles of Somlóvár and Vép, after they had fled from the Nazis in Germany. The invasion of the Red Army forced the most descendants of the family to flee to the West and brought the complete expropriation and destruction of most of the goods and locks with.
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