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The Bódogh Family Armalis
While discussing the Péterváradi family, I've concluded that János Bódogh and noblelady Anna Péterváradi were the parents of brothers Mihály and Péter Bódogh, who were ennobled on 30 Jan 1611 by King Matthias II. A great deal of information regarding Mihály and Péter Bódogh, and their descendants, was sourced from the nobility investigations that were conducted in Hungary throughout the 18th century. One investigation in particular, on 18 Dec 1793 in Miskolc, Hungary, states the original armalis granted to Mihály and Péter Bódogh was provided to the court and transcribed by Ferenc Balogh, the Borsod County Treasurer.
An "armalis" was the official grant issued to those ennobled, typically with a painted coat of arms in the upper left-hand corner, and was personally signed by the king. Three images of the above-mentioned armalis transcription are immediately below.
NOTE: The extract of the original armalis from 30 Jan 1611 shows an error and missing text, stating "Ag- Michaëlis Bodogh" [image 1, lines 11-12], with the remainder of "Ag-" missing. From experience, I've been able to piece together that the brothers Mihály and Péter Bódogh were of the titled "Agilis" status. Agilis were known as "nobles' in-laws", being the children of a commoner or ignoble father and a noble mother; the children themselves living as nobles through their mother's nobility. This agilis status supports the theory that their mother was Anna Péterváradi, as well as further supporting the Péterváradi family having been nobles in their own right.
NOTE: The coat of arms description is on image 2, lines 3-14, beginning with the word "Scutum" [shield].
The original armalis from 30 Jan 1611 seems to have been lost to history and none of the nobility investigation records provided a drawing or image of the Bódogh coat of arms. The 18 Dec 1793 transcription of the armalis aligns with the published image to the right, which is unfortunately colorless. I have also provided a lighter, cleaned-up image utilized through AI.
The description from the transcription states the shield background was blue (horizontal lines). The crowns were obviously gold (dots), while the swords and helmet were silver (plain areas).
The ribbons on the left-hand side of the shield were blue (horiztonal lines) and gold (dots). The ribbons on the right-hand side of the shield were red (vertical lines) and silver (plain areas).
The eagle wings within the crest, atop the coat of arms, followed the same color pattern; clock-wise, beginning at top-right: blue, gold, silver and red.
The Turk's head represents the ongoing battles with the Ottoman Empire, implying that brothers Mihály and Péter Bódogh, or perhaps their father János Bódogh, fought in battle(s) against the Ottoman's. The crown within the sword, on the shield, likely represents their allegiance to the King, or specific service to the King.
The publication that this coat of arms came from stated it belonged to the bodogfalvi Bódogh family ennobled in 1611. In Latin this would be written as Bódogh de Bodogfalva, indicating the Bódogh family took their surname from a locality called Bodogfalva. This was likely Bodogfalva located in Pest County, which in 1561, was listed as being one of the properties of the Bishop of Vác (their late uncle Blasius Péterváradi).
SOURCE (1561): https://archives.hungaricana.hu/en/urbarium/hu_mnl_ol_e156_a_fasc062_no033_i/
Sometime after 1800, during another one of the nobility investigations, the entire Bódogh family as a whole provided genealogies of their paternal-line descent.
The large pedigree chart to the right shows every male Bódogh that had been born or was alive when it was created. Immediately below are larger images of each of the three family groups (Mihály, Péter and István).
This pedigree chart was the foundation for my research in researching a very large majority of the Bódogh family and their descendants. As of 2025, I have documented ~1,900+ descendants of János Bódogh and noblelady Anna Péterváradi.
The progenitor of this family, Mihály Bódogh, was born about 1686 and died on 1 Aug 1770 in Tiszaszederkény, Borsod County, Hungary. He was an elder brother to Péter Bódogh, in the next image below.
The descendants of this family lived in Gelej, Nemesbikk and Tiszaszederkény, all of Borsod County, Hungary.
The progenitor of this family, Péter Bódogh, was born sometime between 1696-1700 and died in March 1775 in Tiszaszederkény, Borsod County, Hungary. He was a younger brother to Mihály Bódogh, in the previous image above. They were the sons of Péter Bódogh, who died sometime between 1704 and 1725 in Tiszaszederkény.
Péter Bódogh was married to a noblewoman surnamed "Molnár Gazda" [her first name never stated] on 9 Feb 1723 in Ónod, Borsod County, Hungary. She was the daughter of nobleman István Molnár Gazda, who died in January 1721 in Ónod.
We descend through Péter Bódogh's son Mihály Bódogh (1744-1816), and his son János Bódogh (1782-1854). The Károly (1809-1881) that appears in this pedigree chart is our distant uncle, who also married our distant aunt noblewoman Mária Tóth (1811-1890; daughter of Mihály Tóth and Zsuzsánna Szabó). Mihály Bódogh removed from Tiszaszederkény, where he grew up, and resided in Tiszadob where he married Sára Varga sometime before 1770.
The descendants of this family lived in Gelej and Tiszaszederkény of Borsod County, as well as Tiszadob of Szabolcs County, Hungary.
Not much is known about the progenitor of this family, István Bódogh. We know his unnamed wife died on 2 Dec 1764 in Tiszaszederkény and she was presumably already a widow. The Reformed church records for Tiszaszederkény began in 1753, so he must have died sometime before then.
This progenitor István Bódogh was a first cousin to the two brothers Mihály and Péter, described in the two images immediately above. István was a son of János Bódogh who died sometime before 1752 in Mád, Zemplén County, Hungary.
The descendants of this family lived in Tiszaszederkény of Borsod County, as well as Debrecen of Hajdú County, Hungary.
Several more genealogies were provided as text, rather than as a pedigree chart, which consisted of several pages of information. All of these written genealogies are consistent with the pedigree charts above, however, they also provide more details regarding residences and family migrations amongst villages. These additional details ultimately helped me locate details regarding most branches of this Bódogh family in church records across Hungary.
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