His father's family had come from the French nobility (De La Banne, from a French crusader stranded in Kingdom of Hungary in the 13th century) and Hungarian nobility, and his mother's family was from France.
A familia do seu pai procedía da nobreza francesa (De La Banne, dun cruzado francés abandonado no reino de Hungría no século XIII) e da nobreza húngara, e a familia da súa nai era de Francia.