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

The Mórocz family from Nagyabony is a medievel curial noble family of Csallóköz, Bratislava (hu. Pozsony) county, landowners from Nagyabony and farmers from Eperjes. The Pozsonyeperjes (Eperjes) branch also comes from it. The Mórocz family from Nagyabony comes from the Karcsay genus. The Karcsa is a Turkish name. The Hungarian King Andrew II exempted Zida, Alg and their the blood relatives Bucha and Paulum from the castle service of Bratislava and transferred them together with their village called "Corcha" to the archbishop's conditional nobility (lat. nobilis preadialis) in 1215. A conditional noble was a landowner in the Kingdom of Hungary who was obliged to render specific services to his lord in return for his landholding, in contrast with a "true nobleman of the realm" who held his estates free of such services.

The son of Móricz (lat. Mauritius) from Karcha (the blood relative of Zida), Joannes, was accepted into the ranks of the conditional nobles in 1291. Joannes was a landowner of a part of Karcha so called "Moroczkarcha". The son of János from Karcha, Jacobus (comes), was accepted into the ranks of the conditional nobles in 1320. Joannes de Karcha had five sons. The father of the first Mórocz (Móricz) was a conditional nobleman Ludovicus of Moroczkarcha (the grandson of Joannes de Karcha, 1394). The son of Mórocz (Móricz), Joannes (a conditional nobleman), accompanied the emperor and king Sigismund of Luxembourg to Konstanz in 1414. The son of Joannes, Jacobus is ennobled "true nobleman of the realm" (lat. nobilis regni) with his brothers in 1456. The king Matthias "Corvinus" confirmed the half of share in the Sypokarcha estate in Bratislava count to the son of Mórocz (Móricz), Andreas in 1461. Andreas, the son of Mórocz used his the fully name in the form "Andreas Morocz de Moroczkarcsa".

T he Mórocz family moved to the estates in Nagyabony at the beginning of the 16th century. The nobleman Benedictus Morocz of Nagyabony is mentioned in a lawsuit in Bratislava count in 1511. The royal charter is mentioned Blasium Móricz (Mórocz) of Nagyabony in 1525. The nobleman Simon Sott put his part of a noble estate for 32 hungarian forints for 99 years to the nobleman Blasium Morocz of Nagyabony in deposit in 1638. Georgius, Andreas, Lucas, Joannes and Peter Morocz recived a royal donation on June 4 1641 from the emperor a 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. Ambrus Mórocz and Georgius Mórocz received a new estate from the emperor a king Charles VI in 1718-1719. The Mórocz family during the noble investigation produced Ferdinand's donation letter dated June 4, 1641. The Mórocz were 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 of Nagyabony family and a member of the Order of Vitéz under the patronage of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.