Preservations

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…

In Diósgyőr, in a family home overlooking the peaks of distant mountains—one might almost imagine oneself in Liptó—lives Elemér Platthy (or Plathy). The view from his glass-walled living room inspires this involuntary thought. His family, too, hails from that wild, bear-haunted land, from which they…

Original patents of arms issued by King Charles IV—although the most recent of their kind—are nevertheless rare, and thus possess significant historical and heraldic value. This rarity is due in part to the monarch's exceptionally brief reign, lasting only two years (1916–1918), but also to…

The three towers with gleaming copper roofs of the Esterházy residence in Cseklész (now Bernolákovo, Slovakia) shine through even the splendor of the Baroque nobility of the time. Its princely appearance, lavish proportions, and vast, legendary park were reminiscent of the home of princes –…

The age of water stairs, iron and steel did not pass without a trace in Liptov either: between 1969 and 1975, a huge dam system was used to create a reservoir near Liptószentmiklós (Liptovský Mikuláš), officially for flood protection. The artificial lake, named Liptovská Mara…

In March 2025, the Foundation acquired ten documents related to Magyaróvár from the years between 1794 and 1849 from a private individual in Budapest. According to the attached expert opinion, the small collection was already in the sights of one of the public collections in…

The Foundation brought this thick, beautifully displayed volume home from the United States, New Jersey. Its Latin title is: Elenchus Biliczensium litteralium instrumentorum confectus 1808. (“List of Bélicz documents made in 1808”). Bélic, i.e. Kis- and Nagybélic, was located in the historical Nyitra County, on…

This beautiful volume came into the possession of the Foundation from a private individual in Pécs, which contains summaries in Latin of civil, divorce and criminal cases concluded at the Seven-Person Board – the court of appeal of the curia – in 1816. The manuscript…

Lajos Petri (before 1928, his birth name was Lajos Pick), whose father was Márk Pick, the founder of the Pick Salami Factory in Szeged – worked as a trained and qualified sculptor (1884–1963). His mother was Katalin Weisz, the daughter of the rabbi of Lugos.…