History of the Mórocz family - Landowners of Nagyabony - Róbert Mórocz

The Mórocz family from Nagyabony is an old noble family of Csallóköz, Bratislava county, landowners of Nagyabony and farmers of Eperjes. The Pozsonyeperjes (Eperjes) branch also comes from it. The Mórocz family of Nagyabony comes from the Karcsay genus. The Karcsa genus is of Pecheneg origin. The Karcsa is a Turkish name. The Hungarian King Andrew II exempted Zida, Alg and their blood relatives Bucha and Paulum from the castle service of Bratislava count and transferred them together with their village called Corcha to the archbishop's ecclesiastical nobility at the request of Archbishop János of Esztergom in 1215.

The Móricz-Karchais were the nobles of the Esztergom archbishopric since the 13th century. The son of Móricz Karchai (the blood relative of Zida), János, was accepted into the ranks of the ecclesiastical nobles of the Archbishopric of Esztergami by Archbishop Lodomér in 1291. The son of János Karchai, Jakab (comes), was accepted into the ranks of the ecclesiastical nobles of the Archbishopric of Esztergami by Archbishop Boleszló in 1320. The father of the first Mórocz was László Morocz-Jánoskarchay (1394). The son of Mórocz, János (an ecclesiastical noble), accompanied the emperor and king Sigismund of Luxembourg to Konstanz in 1414. The son of János, Jakab is ennobled with his brothers in 1456. The king Matthias confirmed the half of share in the Sypokarcha estate in Bratislava to son of Móricz, András in 1461. The son of Mihály, Móricz (Mórocz) is already mentioned among the nobles of Nagyabony in 1488.

The noble Benedictus Morocz de Nagyabony is mentioned in a lawsuit in Bratislava (Pozsony) chapter in 1511. The royal charter mentions Balázs Móricz (Mórocz) of Nagyabony in 1525. The noble Simon Sott mortgaged his part of a noble estate for 32 hungarian forints for 99 years to the noble Balázs Morocz of Nagyabony in 1638. Gergely, András, Lukács, János and Péter Mórocz recived a donation on June 4 1641 from the king Ferdinand III in Nagy-Abony and the coat of arms in 1651. This coat of arms is a knight holding a sword. The armored arm holding a sword in coat of arms refers to the valiant role shown in the battles against the Turks dating back to the 17th century.

N agy-Abony, once a noble village joined the Végvár system and played an important military role by providing continuous defense readiness. The family members adopted the noble surname "Nagyabonyi" after their estate in Nagy-Abony. György Mórocz received a new estate from the king Charles VI in 1719. The Mórocz family during the noble investigation produced Ferdinand's donation letter dated June 4, 1641. The Mórocz are the owners of the "processus inferior insulanus". András Mórocz of Nagyabony was a hero of the First World War. András Mórocz became a member of the Order of Knights (Order of Vitéz) in 1939. He took part the recapture of Transylvania in the rank of captain in 1940. Currently, his great-grandson, Róbert Mórocz of Nagyabony is the successor of bloodline in Order of Vitéz.

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vitéz Róbert Mórocz de Nagyabony, Róbert Mórocz of Nagyabony, a descendant of the Mórocz family of Nagyabony and a member of the Order of Vitéz under the patronage of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.