Preservations

The Hungarian Heritage Archives Foundation and the Hungarian Roots & New World Dreams Heritage Program are launching a partnership to identify and ensure the long-term preservation of historically significant Hungarian documents held in diaspora communities. Over the past years, the Hungarian Roots & New World…

EverGens Europe Ltd. has joined the mission of the Iratmentő – Hungarian Heritage Archives Foundation by providing pro bono support to help introduce the Foundation’s work to Hungarian descendants around the world. Under a cooperation agreement signed on August 25, EverGens Europe will promote Iratmentő…

At one of the spring 2026 auctions, the Hungarian Heritage Archives Foundation purchased a small noble family archive contained in a banana box. It became clear already during the preliminary inspection that the completely unarranged collection could hardly be described as "sensational." Nevertheless, we considered…

In the summer of 2026, the Hungarian Heritage Archives Foundation acquired four original documents through purchase: charters issued by the Chapter of Zagreb in 1457, 1582, and 1589, together with a letter of command issued in 1607 by Thomas Erdődy, Judge of the Royal Cities.…

“Your Highness may graciously recall that for many years I have been a faithful and veteran servant of His Imperial and Royal Majesty and of the House of Austria” — thus began the argument of the distinguished military commander Bálint Prépostváry (†1597) in a letter…

In June 2026, the Hungarian Heritage Archives Foundation acquired through purchase two charters dating from the Jagiellonian period, both relating to the affairs of the noble burgher Péter Pathkó of Komárom (mentioned between 1503 and 1518). The Pathkó family was an old Komárom lineage, several…

Thanks to the efforts of the Hungarian Heritage Archives Foundation, a significant document has recently been transferred to the Hungarian National Archives. The document is an authenticated transcription (transsumptionalis) issued by the cathedral chapter of Győr in its capacity as a place of authentication (locus…

At the end of 2025, the holdings of the Hungarian National Archives were enriched—thanks to the Hungarian Heritage Archives Foundation—by nearly a dozen medieval and early modern documents. The valuable set of records, formerly held in private ownership in Canada and comprising charters dated between…

In 2025, the Hungarian Heritage Archives Foundation saved two Budapest resident registration books—one from District VI and one from District XIII—from being lost, and donated them to the Budapest City Archives. On this occasion, we wish to draw attention to this type of modern historical…

Foreign patents of arms from the sixteenth century (or earlier) are rare within the holdings of the National Archives. For this reason, the imperial charter by which Emperor Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, granted imperial nobility and an augmentation of arms is of exceptional interest.…

At the beginning of his reign, on 12 January 1837, King Ferdinand V of Hungary granted Hungarian nobility and a coat of arms to Ferenc Szerdahelyi, estate administrator of the Bishopric of Győr. The Latin-language charter, containing both a painted coat of arms and its…

Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, King of Hungary issued this patent of arms in Vienna on 23 January 1911, by which he conferred Hungarian nobility and a coat of arms upon Albin Fröhlich, landholder of Sarmaság (now Șărmășag, Romania), his wife Paula Móricz, and their…