page_title: Hahót (genus)
section_title: Seats and possessions
hierarchical_section_title: Hahót (genus) / Seats and possessions
caption_attribution_description: English: Lendava Castle
context_page_description: Hahót or Hahót–Buzád was the name of a gens in the Kingdom of Hungary, several prominent secular dignitaries came from this kindred. The last noble family, which originated from the kindred, became extinct in 1849.
context_section_description: Following Stephen III's victory, Hahold received land donations and settled down in Zala County near the Austrian border. By the 13th century, his kindred possessed the most extensive estate in the county, along the rivers Kerka and Ledava, and in Prekmurje (today in Slovenia). In the early period, the family seat was Hahót, which was named after the kindred, between rivers Kanizsa and Pölöske. In 1192, Hahold II bought lands in Alsólendva (today Lendava, Slovenia) and in the surrounding areas (Venéce). His brother Buzád I was mentioned as a onetime owner of Újudvar, also in Zala County, by a royal charter of Béla III of Hungary, when he donated the estate to the Fehérvár monastery. Archaeologist László Vándor argued Hahold I was granted his coherent and extensive possession from a crown land after the cessation of the "gyepű" border system. Accordingly, the Hahóts' first lands were part of the so-called "gyepűelve", a mostly uninhabited or sparsely inhabited area beyond the Austrian border, comparable to the modern buffer zones. Vándor considered Újudvar (Nova Curia), where stone buildings, churches, monasteries were excavated, was the centre of this territory until the donation.
  By the 1230s, Buzád I's son Arnold I founded the kindred's monastery at Hahót, the namesake seat of his family, dedicated to Margaret of Antioch. Archaeologists argued the Hahóts erected their monastery on a basis of a royal convent founded by Ladislaus I of Hungary. However, in fact, the Hahót monastery was only a common burial place among the Hahót clan, as its branches moved away from each other by then. In 1248, Michael I of the Hahold branch founded a Franciscan friary in Szemenye (today in Muraszemenye), also dedicated to Mary the Virgin. Later the Bánfi de Alsólendva family, descendants of the Hahót kindred through his brother Hahold III, became patron of the monastery. One of the members of the more powerful Buzád branch, Atyusz (or Csák I) erected a Premonstratensian monastery at Rajk around 1270.
  Possibly it was Arnold II of the Arnold branch who built the castles of Pölöske and Sztrigó (today Štrigova, Croatia) in Zala County in the 1240s, after Béla IV of Hungary abandoned the ancient royal prerogative to build and own castles in response to the Mongol invasion. After the 1270s the gradually marginalized Arnold branch, resided on the western part of the Hahót basin, lost the ownership of Pölöske and Sztrigó against Ottokar II of Bohemia then the increasing powerful Kőszegi family. Nicholas III also owned Purbach (Hungarian: Feketeváros) in Sopron County, but after his rebellion in 1270, Stephen V of Hungary confiscated the castle and donated to his loyal soldier Panyit Miskolc. Until confiscation, Nick was also a property of Panyit Hahót. In Somogy County, the branch possessed Sukoró, Mórichely, Osziágy, Surd and Kákonya. For a time, James also owned Kálmáncsa and Dobsza, formerly queenly estates.
  By 1251, sons of Blessed Buzád (Buzád branch) built their own timber fortifications – Buzádtornya, Csáktornya, Terestyéntornya and Lankrédtornya (lit. Buzád's Tower, Csák's Tower, Tristan's Tower and Lancelot's Tower, respectively). Among them only Csáktornya (today Čakovec, Croatia) survived the following centuries. Ottokar's army captured all castles in the early 1270s, causing the Buzád branch's move into Center Zala. The eldest son Buzád III also inherited Buzádsziget and Szabar from his father who entered the Dominican Order. His son Atyusz resided in Szabar and thus became ancestor of the Szabari family. Csák I's branch settled down in Csány after Ottokar's invasion – their descendants, the Csányi family originated from there. After a praefectio in filium by his father Nicholas V in 1365, Klara, a descendant of Buzád IV (son of Csák I) granted the village of Buzádsziget, while its fort was already demolished by then. Following that Klara mortgaged the estate to her husband John Koltai and his brother George. Tristan's branch became extinct after a generation. Herbord, son of Lancelot, owned Falkos and Söjtör, his descendants were fre
caption: Alsólendva Castle (today Lendava in Slovenia)
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