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Charter of King B\u00e9la IV, 1256<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

On August 2, 2021, it was announced at a press conference that the collection of the Hungarian National Archives had been enriched with 520 original charters, which the Hungarian state had purchased from the Batthy\u00e1ny family for a price of 5,6 million EUR.<\/p>\n

This collection consists of the most important documents in the Batthy\u00e1ny family archives originally held at K\u00f6rmend. Members of the family took these charters with them in 1945 and preserved them in Austria until now. The remainder of the archives was badly damaged when the Soviet army plundered the Batthy\u00e1ny mansion at K\u00f6rmend. Anything saved after that event was nationalized in 1949 and has been preserved at the National Archives since (it is estimated that about 15 percent of the medieval charters were destroyed in 1945).<\/p>\n

G\u00f6rgy R\u00e1cz, deputy director of the National Archives, explained at the press conference that the newly purchased collection contains the historically most important part of the family archives and is filled with irreplaceable documents of medieval Hungarian history, as the members of the Batthy\u00e1ny family held high government positions for centuries.<\/p>\n

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One box of the Batthy\u00e1ny-charters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Most of the charters are from the three series of the old archives of the Batthy\u00e1ny family preserved at K\u00f6rmend castle until 1945: the Memorabilia (297 diplomas) series is the most valuable historical material of the Batthy\u00e1ny archives from the national point of view. The new acquisition makes this former series almost complete. Here the earliest piece is King Louis the Great’s charter of 1352 on the nobility of the Pechenegs in Fej\u00e9r County. There are also letters from King Louis II from 1526, calling Ferenc Batthy\u00e1ny to battle against the Turks – dating from just a couple of weeks before the catastrophic Battle of Moh\u00e1cs. The other outstanding part of the collection is the so-called Heimiana or \u201cHimfiana\u201d series, which was the family archive of the Himfis of D\u00f6brente, one of the most influential baronial families of the Anjou era. Their charters went to the Batthy\u00e1nys, who preserved them. The documents purchased now contain 141 pieces of this series, including 11 charters from the \u00c1rp\u00e1dian period and 125 from the Anjou period. The third series is Acta Antiqua (48 charters), which contains the oldest documents concerning property in the family\u2019s ancient estate. The earliest piece in this series is the 1355 charter of King Louis the Great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Charter with the seal of King Sigismund, 1411<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The documents will now join the other part of the Batthy\u00e1ny family archives in the National Archives as part of the nation’s cultural heritage, where they will be available for scientific research after their inventory, processing, and digitization. All the medieval charters of the Batthy\u00e1ny family archives already in the National Archives can be consulted in the Hungaricana database.<\/a><\/div>\n

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