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Hungarian noble family
Zapolya family
Szapolyai-csalad
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Country
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Hungary
Poland
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Founded
| 14th century
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Current head
| None, extinct
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Final ruler
| John Sigismund Zapolya
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Titles
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Dissolution
| 14 March 1571
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14 March 1571
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Italic
is used for non-hereditary titles
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The
Szapolyai
or
Zapolya family
was a
noble
family in the
Kingdom of Hungary
in the second half of the 15th century and in the early 16th century. A member of the family,
John Szapolyai
, was
King of Hungary
between 1526 and 1540, but he only ruled the central and eastern parts of the kingdom, because many Hungarian lords and prelates supported his opponent,
Ferdinand of Habsburg
.
Origins
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The first known member of the family was one Ladislaus Vajdafi Szapolyai, who was a
Slavonian
nobleman with estates in former
Po?ega County
.
Most notably the today small eponymous village Zapolje in
Re?etari
municipality,
Brod-Posavina county
.
[2]
His eldest son,
Emeric
, was the first member of the family to achieve the status of "true baron of the realm" when
Matthias Corvinus
,
King of Hungary
, appointed him high treasurer in 1459 or 1460.
The sudden emergence of Emeric and his two brothers – Nicholas and
Stephen
– during Matthias Corvinus's reign gave rise to scholarly theories about their kinship with the royal
Hunyadi family
.
The joint appearance of the Szapolyai, Hunyadi and Szilagyi coat-of-arms in certain places also support this theory, taking into account that Matthias Corvinus's mother was
Elizabeth Szilagyi
.
The Szapolyai coat-of-arms (which depicted a wolf) appears together with the Hunyadi coat-of-arms on the tomb of Matthias Corvinus's father,
John Hunyadi
, and with the Hunyadi and Szilagyi coat-of-arms in the Dominican monastery in
Buda
and on a well in Matthias Corvinus's summer palace in
Visegrad
.
According to one theory, John Hunyadi's mother was born to the Szapolyai family;
according to a concurring scholarly view, Emeric Szapolyai was Matthias Corvinus's half-brother.
None of the theories can be proven, because no member of the Szapolyai family referred to his kinship with the Hunyadis.
Notable members
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See also
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References
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- ^
"Zapolje"
(in Croatian). Municipality of Re?etari
. Retrieved
16 March
2016
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Sources
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- E. Kovacs, Peter (1990).
Matthias Corvinus
(in Hungarian). Officina Nova.
ISBN
963-7835-49-0
.
- Engel, Pal (2001).
The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895?1526
. I.B. Tauris Publishers.
ISBN
1-86064-061-3
.
- Kubinyi, Andras (2008).
Matthias Rex
. Balassi Kiado.
ISBN
978-963-506-767-1
.
- Neumann, Tibor (2007). "Peter puspok es rokonsaga. Az els? Szapolyaiak
[Bishop Peter and his Family. The first Szapolyais]
". In Makk, Ferenc; Piti, Ferenc (eds.).
Acta Universitatis Szegediensis. Acta Historica
(in Hungarian). MTA-SZTE-MOL Magyar Medievisztikai Kutatocsoport. pp. 59?70.
- Neumann, Tibor (2020). "Ket nador es egy vajda, avagy a Szapolyaiak utja a kiralyi tronig [
Two Palatines and one Voivode: or, the Szapolyais' Road to the Hungarian Throne
]". In Fodor, Pal; Varga, Szabolcs (eds.).
Egy elfeledett magyar kiralyi dinasztia: A Szapolyaiak
(in Hungarian). MTA Bolcseszettudomanyi Kutatokozpont. pp. 13?47.
ISBN
978-963-416-220-9
.
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