page_title: Balog de Manko Bük
section_title: Family history
hierarchical_section_title: Balog de Manko Bük / Family history
caption_attribution_description: English: First part of their heraldry
context_page_description: Balogh von Mankobük or Balog de Manko Bück in its present Germanized form, mankóbüki Balogh in Hungarian, is a noble family from the Habsburg Monarchy, originally from the region of Sopron County, which belongs to the historical Hungarian nobility.
  The mankóbüki family were landowners at the former village of Alsóbük, Mankóbük, Kingdom of Hungary. Their origins date back to the beginning of the Habsburg rule of the Kingdom of Hungary, which was then also divided in the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom and Ottoman Hungary, and are documented in the area of Bük since 1552.
  The Habsburg Monarchy was later transformed in 1804 to the Austrian Empire, after the Ausgleich, from 1867 onwards Austria-Hungary came to existence, and collapsed after the Austro-Hungarian defeat of World War One.
context_section_description: The family had both a marked military and legal or administrative character throughout generations. Male members mainly either served in the Austrian Imperial Army and the subsequent Austro-Hungarian Army, or dedicated themselves towards the affairs of state, primarily through judicial positions of legal or administrative nature, in either governmental institutions of the Habsburg Monarchy or Hungarian Ministries.
  The first written mention of a Manko Bük family is recorded in 1351 as "Monko de Byky" and later in the person of "Johannes Manko de Byk" in 1451. The published genealogical family tree of the "Balogh Mankóbüki" traced their roots back to the early 1600s, namely with the brothers Lörinez (1618) and János (1620), even though the jurist Gáspar Balogh de Mankóbük had been documented in present-day Bük back in 1556.
  They left Bük in the late 18th century due to the military postings of the head of the family, captain Josef Balog de Mankó-Bük (1766 in Bük - 1842 in Vienna), who fought during the Napoleonic Wars for the Austrian Empire.
  The captain had been stationed in 1795 in Kőszeg, which was the seat of the district administration, as lawyer of the Transdanubian District Board (Kőszegi Kerületi Táblanak). This institution had been founded in 1724 and was responsible for Nobles's property, inheritance and other financial matters. 
  Their military life took them through Temeswar and Karlsburg  in the Principality of Transylvania, (today in Romania), as well as Brünn and Olmütz in Moravia (today in the Czech Republic). The captains oldest son, Oberleutnant Josef Balog v. Manko-Bük (1801 in Temeswar), lived in Fürstenfeld (Styria) and Königsdorf during his active military career.
  The family established itself in Vienna around 1837 and in Budapest around 1848.
  Because of the death of Rittmeister (Cavalry Captain) Karl Balog de Mánko-Bük (1808-1849) during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 his son was raised by his wife's family (Madách de Sztregova et Kelecsény) at castle Madách (today in Slovakia).
  The German language dominated the Habsburg Monarchy. The Hungarian language became official in 1836 in Kingdom of Hungary, however before Latin was used in the official documents.
  French was later adopted as mother tongue by the family branch that settled in France after World War II.
caption: Genealogy Balogh de Mankóbük since 1620
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