Already in the 11th century there was a hillfort here, which gave the name to Hunyad County. King Sigismund of Hungary donated the estate to the kenéz Vajk, son of Serbe, probably of Cuman origin. He named his family after the estate and was the father of Hunyadi János. The family then built the predecessor of the present stone castle as the centre of the estate. In the middle of the 15th century, while Hunyadi János was governor of Hungary, his wife, Szilágyi Erzsébet, lived in the castle. The castle underwent significant construction at this time, but even then it was more of a noble residence. It became the property of his son, King Matthias, who gave it to his illegitimate son, Corvin János. His widow, Frangepán Beatrix, inherited it from him, and her new husband George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, handed it over to King Ferdinand I in 1531, from whom Bishop Czibak Imre of Várad seized it by siege on behalf of King John I. It was of little military significance during the Principality of Transylvania, but it successfully withstood the siege of Voivode Mihai Viteazul of Wallachia, who wreaked havoc on Transylvania, and was later rebuilt and strengthened by Prince Bethlen Gábor. In 1671, the estate became the property of Thököly Imre, the future Prince of Upper Hungary, from whom it was confiscated by Prince Apafi Mihály of Transylvania after his fall. During the 18th century, the manor was passed from Apafi's heirs to the treasury and used by the offices of the estate. At the beginning of the 19th century, Emperor Francis I visited it and ordered its restoration, but a fire caused by a lightning strike prevented it. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, the castle was restored in several stages and a replica was built in Budapest for the millennium celebrations. Iron and gold were mined near the settlement as early as the 15th century, but iron production really took off in the 19th century, and Vajdahunyad developed into an iron metallurgical centre. The iron and steel industry continued to define the town's image throughout the 20th century.

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King Sigismund of Hungary donated the estate to the ken\u00e9z Vajk, son of Serbe, probably of Cuman origin. He named his family after the estate and was the father of Hunyadi J\u00e1nos. The family then built the predecessor of the present stone castle as the centre of the estate. In the middle of the 15th century, while Hunyadi J\u00e1nos was governor of Hungary, his wife, Szil\u00e1gyi Erzs\u00e9bet, lived in the castle. The castle underwent significant construction at this time, but even then it was more of a noble residence. It became the property of his son, King Matthias, who gave it to his illegitimate son, Corvin J\u00e1nos. His widow, Frangep\u00e1n Beatrix, inherited it from him, and her new husband George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, handed it over to King Ferdinand I in 1531, from whom Bishop Czibak Imre of V\u00e1rad seized it by siege on behalf of King John I. It was of little military significance during the Principality of Transylvania, but it successfully withstood the siege of Voivode Mihai Viteazul of Wallachia, who wreaked havoc on Transylvania, and was later rebuilt and strengthened by Prince Bethlen G\u00e1bor. In 1671, the estate became the property of Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre, the future Prince of Upper Hungary, from whom it was confiscated by Prince Apafi Mih\u00e1ly of Transylvania after his fall. During the 18th century, the manor was passed from Apafi's heirs to the treasury and used by the offices of the estate. At the beginning of the 19th century, Emperor Francis I visited it and ordered its restoration, but a fire caused by a lightning strike prevented it. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, the castle was restored in several stages and a replica was built in Budapest for the millennium celebrations. Iron and gold were mined near the settlement as early as the 15th century, but iron production really took off in the 19th century, and Vajdahunyad developed into an iron metallurgical centre. The iron and steel industry continued to define the town's image throughout the 20th century.","nameorigin":"","history":"#1|@#3|@11th century|The hillfort that gave its name to Hunyad County was standing on Saint Peter Hill (Szent P\u00e9ter, S\u00e2npetru) south of the castle. It was built during the reign of the House of \u00c1rp\u00e1d. The name Hunyad probably comes from a personal name with the d affix. The Vajda prefix refers to the fact that it was the estate of the vajda of Transylvania. The Romanian name comes from the Hunyadv\u00e1ra (meaning Hunyad\u2019s caste) form of the Hungarian name.@#5|@after 1241|The Hungarian and Saxon population was decimated by the Mongol invasion. King B\u00e9la IV of Hungary invited Vlach settlers to Transylvania in order to replenish the population. The Vlachs were shepherds from the Balkans, so first they occupied the pastures in the mountains and paid one-fiftieth of their flock as tax. Their leaders were called ken\u00e9zs, and they were confirmed by the Hungarian king in their position. They borrowed the vajda office from the Hungarians, and it referred to the leader of several ken\u00e9zs. It has to be distinguished from the office of the vajda of Transylvania, which was the old Hungarian office of the leader of Transylvania always appointed by the King of Hungary. This office was needed because of the geographical distance of Transylvania from the political centre of Hungary and it did not mean any kind of identity separate from Hungary. Vlach migration to Transylvania was continuous and they gradually switched to farming. Hungarian population was decimated during the 16th and 17th century by the constant war against Turkish and Habsburg invaders. After Hungary was reunited under Habsburg rule and the repopulation began, the emperors favoured foreigners over Hungarians, because they were constantly fighting to restore their country\u2019s former independence. During the 18th century, many Hungarians also moved from Transylvania to the more fertile land of the Great Plain, formerly inhabited by Hungarians, but left desolate by the war. Masses of Vlach migrants arrived to Transylvania in their place and soon they became the majority.@1267|Istv\u00e1n, the son of King B\u00e9la IV of Hungary, retreated to the castle of Feketehalom after the battle fought against his father at D\u00e9va, and ordered the castellan of Hunyad Castle to recruit soldiers and hurry to liberate Feketehalom besieged by the army led by L\u0151rinc son of Kem\u00e9ny. It is not certain that this referred to the hillfort of Hunyad or the stone castle already existed.@#6|@1307|It was the seat of an archdeaconry.@after 1330|According to a theory, King Charles I of Hungary ordered the construction of the stone castles of Hunyad and H\u00e1tszeg after his unsuccessful campaign against Wallachia, in order to protect the borders of Hungary, because D\u00e9va Castle to the north lay too far from the border.@October 18, 1409|King Sigismund of Hungary donated the estate to ken\u00e9z Vajk (Woyk) son of Serbe, the father of Hunyadi J\u00e1nos. This estate gave the family its name. After that, the precursor of the present day castle was built by the Hunyadi family as the centre for their estate. An extensive, but scarcely populated estate belonged to the castle, which didn\u2019t generate much income. Romanians spread that Vajk was Vlach, but in fact his origin is unknown. It is also known, that he was a ken\u00e9z, a leader, and the leading class of the Vlachs (the nobility of Wallachia) was of Cuman origin at that time. His name also is of Turk origin. Cumans later assimilated to the Vlach majority of Wallachia, just like the originally Turk Bulgars assimilated to the Slavic majority.@February 10, 1410|King Sigismund issued the permanent letter of donation, in which Vajk was already called Hunyadi. Many say that the castle did not exist yet at that time based on the fact, that it was not mentioned in the document.@1415|The settlement was mentioned as an oppidum (a serf town with some privileges).@15th century|Iron and gold was already mined here.@1446-1453|Hunyadi J\u00e1nos was the governor of Hungary. During this period, his wife, Szil\u00e1gyi Erzs\u00e9bet, lived in the castle. The castle was transformed and expanded around that time.@1445|The settlement was mentioned as a town.@1448|Franciscan monks settled in Vajdahunyad.@after 1453|Szil\u00e1gyi Erzs\u00e9bet, the wife of Hunyadi J\u00e1nos and mother of King Matthias, inherited the estate.@#7|@1457|Hunyadi M\u00e1ty\u00e1s (later King Matthias) gave permission to his Orthodox serfs to build a stone church in the town.@1458|Hunyadi M\u00e1ty\u00e1s was elected King of Hungary as King Matthias.@1482|Corvin J\u00e1nos, the illegitimate son of King Matthias, received the castle.@1490|King Matthias died.@1494|Corvin J\u00e1nos pawned the castle to Kinizsi P\u00e1l and his wife, Magyar Benigna.@1496|Bishop Bak\u00f3cz Tam\u00e1s of Eger acquired the pawn, but he could not take the castle into his possession.@1504|Corvin J\u00e1nos died.@1505|The only son of Corvin J\u00e1nos, the child Krist\u00f3f, died. He was the last male member of the family.@1508|Erzs\u00e9bet, the daughter of Corvin J\u00e1nos also died. The castle was inherited by the widow of Corvin J\u00e1nos, Frangep\u00e1n Beatrix.@1508|Bishop Bak\u00f3cz Tam\u00e1s tried to take the castle into his possession, but Castellan Nagy Gy\u00f6rgy and his hussars drove away the chapter of Transylvania and the men of the vajda of Transylvania coming to the official registration. After that, King Ul\u00e1szl\u00f3 II of Hungary issued a letter of donation for the castle to Frangep\u00e1n Beatrix.@1509|Frangep\u00e1n Beatrix married George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, the nephew of King Ul\u00e1szl\u00f3 II.@1510|After the death of Frangep\u00e1n Beatrix, George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, inherited the Hunyadi estates.@#8|@1528|A fire devastated the castle.@17 September 1531|George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, handed the castle over to King Ferdinand I. He was a supporter of Ferdinand against King John I.@June 1534|Bishop Czibak Imre of V\u00e1rad captured the castle on behalf of King John I by siege. Czibak Imre was assassinated by Lodovico Gritti's men later that year.@1536|King John I of Hungary donated it to T\u00f6r\u00f6k B\u00e1lint of Enying.@#9|@1557|T\u00f6r\u00f6k J\u00e1nos had his adulterous wife, Kendi Anna, beheaded in the castle courtyard.@#10|@#12|@1601|Voivode Mihai Viteazul of Wallachia besieged the castle unsuccessfully, but the roofs of the castle buildings were burned.@#13|@#14|@1618|The castle was acquired by the Bethlens of Ikt\u00e1r. Prince Bethlen G\u00e1bor of Transylvania transformed the castle and reinforced it with outer defences, then gave it to his nephew, Bethlen Istv\u00e1n, in 1622 together with the estate. After the death of Bethlen Istv\u00e1n in 1632, his wife, Sz\u00e9chy M\u00e1ria, lived in the castle for a short time.@1619|Prince Bethlen G\u00e1bor of Transylvania confirmed the establishment of the furrier\u2019s guild. The tailor\u2019s guild was formed in 1627, followed by the tanners and bootmakers in 1635, and the weavers in 1676.@#15|@#16|@1634|The Vlach language Calvinist congregation was established.@1644|The owners of the castle, Bethlen P\u00e9ter and his wife, Trencs\u00e9ni Ill\u00e9sh\u00e1zy Katalin, built a Calvinist church near the castle.@#17|@#18|@1648|Bethlen Katalin, the wife of Z\u00f3lyomi D\u00e1vid, acquired the castle.@1657|Prince R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Gy\u00f6rgy II of Transylvania launched a campaign for the crown of Poland in alliance with Carl X Gustaf of Sweden. His aim was to unite the Hungarian-Polish-Wallachian forces against the Turks. The campaign started successfully with the prince taking Krak\u00f3w and Warsawa, but then the King of Sweden abandoned him. The vengeful Poles invaded northern Transylvania, burning defenceless villages, destroying churches and castles. Soon the punitive campaign of Turkish and Tatar armies devastated Transylvania, as the prince launched his Polish campaign against the Sultan's will.@1658|The Tartars ravaged and plundered throughout Transylvania and Grand Vizier K\u00f6pr\u00fcl\u00fc Mehmed captured Jen\u0151 Castle. The Estates of Transylvania sent Barcsay \u00c1kos to the camp of the grand vizier to beg for mercy. In return, the Grand Vizier demanded that the annual tax be raised from 15 to 40 thousand forints (gold coins) and that Lugos and Karansebes be ceded. This was the price for the Turks to leave Transylvania. The grand vizier appointed Barcsay prince on 14 September.@1659\u20131660|After the Turks occupied Kar\u00e1nsebes, Serb and Vlach refugees settled in the town.@#19|@#20|@1671|Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre acquired the estate and stayed here several times.@#21|@#22|@#23|@#24|@1685|Prince Apafi Mih\u00e1ly of Transylvania confiscated the estate from Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre.@#25|@#26|@#27|@1710|The Franciscans recovered their house that stood by the road leading to R\u00e1kosd. It regained its monastery status in 1725.@1731|Four country fairs were held in the town every year.@from 1714|Georg Steinhilbert leased the estate. There was already an ironworks in Csernab\u00e1ny\u00e1n to the north on the Cserna stream in 1667. Steinhilbert built a second one in 1714 and a third one in 1727. It was operated directly by the Treasury from 1743. Modern iron production started in the middle of the 18th century, when the smelter of Toplica was built in its neighbourhood.@1724|The Treasury inherited the estate from Apafi Kata, the widow of Apafi Mih\u00e1ly II.@from 1725|The offices of the estate owned by the Treasury moved to the castle.@1784|The castle was last used for military purpose, when most of the nobility of Hunyad County found refuge here from the Vlach uprising of Horea. Here they successfully repelled the attacks of the Vlachs. The little town was an industrial centre of regional importance and the seat of one of the districts of Hunyad County. In 1784, Emperor Joseph II ordered an increase in the number of border guards. The Valch serfs in Transylvania were under the misapprehension that the conscription had been started, and began to gather en masse, as the military service was the only way for the Vlach migrants that overpopulated in the Transylvanian mountains to escape the misery. The leaders of the local administration, believing that they were being bypassed by the imperial court, tried to block the process. In addition, the Vlach Orthodox priests incited the Vlach population against the Hungarians, whom they hated, and fooled the Vlachs with the myth of their Daco-Roman origin. Horea spread the word that the emperor had appointed him as the leader of the Vlachs. The enraged Vlach peasants attacked the Hungarian and Saxon citizens and began a terrible ethnic cleansing, exterminating 133 mostly Hungarian settlements and murdering thousands of people. After the mob was crushed, two of their leaders, Horea and Clo\u0219ca, were executed by the wheel in Gyulafeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r. The third leader, Cri\u015fan, cowardly committed suicide in the prison. There was no mass reprisal.@1760|The town became part of the newly created Military Frontier, but its inhabitants didn\u2019t have to become soldiers.@1807|King Francis I of Hungary ordered the renovation of the castle during his visit, but the constructions were ended by a fire due to lightning strike in 1818.@between 1837 and 1840|Debreczeni M\u00e1rton reorganized the iron production in the neighbourhood. Vajdahunyad became an important centre of iron metallurgy in the second half of the 19th century.@#28|@#30|@1868|The doctor and university professor Ar\u00e1nyi Lajos started a campaign to gather public donations for the renovation of the castle.@1870-1874|The architect Steindl Imre led the renovation of the castle in uniform Gothic style. He transformed the roofs to their present day form.@1884|The Vajdahunyad\u2013Piski railway line was finished. The first large smelter was constructed the same year, which was followed by four more until 1903. The fourth smelter contracted in 1895 was the largest in Hungry with its 20 metres height.@1896|The replica of Vajdahunyad Castle was inaugurated in Budapest as part of the celebration commemorating the Millennium of Hungary. It was originally built from wood, but it was rebuilt from stone in 1908 due to its success.@1907-1913|The historically correct renovation of the castle was led by M\u00f6ller Istv\u00e1n.@#31|@1916|On 27 August, Romania declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and launched an attack against Hungary. This triggered a huge wave of refugees from Transylvania, as the population feared a repeat of the Romanian ethnic cleansing of 1848-49. Austro-Hungarian and German forces drove the invaders out of the country by mid-October and occupied Bucharest on 6 December. Romania surrendered and signed a peace treaty with the central powers on 7 May 1918 (Treaty of Bucharest).@1918|On 3 November, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy signed the Armistice of Padua. The already defeated Romania then declared war on Germany on 10 November, just one day before the Germans signed the armistice near Compi\u00e8gne. The Romanians then launched an offensive against Hungary, which had already unconditionally ceased fighting at the demand of the Entente. Romania was only recognised by the Entente powers as one of the victors of WWI only later.@#32|@from 1918|By 1922, 197,000 Hungarians were forced to leave the Romanian-occupied part of the country. By 1939 a further 169,000 Hungarians had left Transylvania, mostly aristocrats, intellectuals and a significant number of farmers. Most of them moved to Hungary. Before the Romanian invasion, 1,662,000 Hungarians lived in Transylvania, 32 percent of the population.@#36|@between 1937 and 1940|The Siemens\u2013Martin steelworks was constructed on 8500 m\u00b2. After the Second World War, it became one of the largest centres of iron and steel metallurgy in Romania.@late 1950s|Thousands of migrants arrived from Wallachia and Moldova during the collectivization of the agricultural sector.@from the 1950s|800,000 Romanians were settled in Transylvania from Moldavia, but many also came from Wallachia. The aim was to Romanianize the still majorly Hungarian towns and to break up the ethnic Hungarian blocks. While previously there was a Romanian majority in only a few small towns, this has been reversed by now.@2002|7.2 million people lived in Transylvania, including 1.42 million Hungarians. There were 1.65 million Hungarians out of 5.2 million in 1910. The proportion of the Romanians increased from 53.78% to 74.69%, while the proportion of the Hungarians decreased from 31.64% to 19.6%. The proportion of the Germans dropped from 10.75% to below 1%. These changes were mainly the results of migration and the persecution of Hungarians and Saxons. Transylvania here refers to the entire territory that once belonged to Hungary, which is much larger than historical Transylvania.&studhist.blog.hu: Vajdahunyad v\u00e1ra \u00e9s a Hunyadi csal\u00e1d|https:\/\/studhist.blog.hu\/2017\/12\/19\/vajdahunyad_vara_es_a_hunyadi_csalad\nmaszol.ro|https:\/\/maszol.ro\/kultura\/122792-kincsesladank-erdely-buszke-vartornyok-es-bed-lt-kemenyek-varosa-vajdahunyad\nstudhist.blog.hu: Vajdahunyad v\u00e1ra \u00e9s Bethlen G\u00e1bor erd\u00e9lyi fejedelem|https:\/\/studhist.blog.hu\/2017\/12\/27\/vajdahunyad_vara_es_bethlen_gabor_erdelyi_fejedelem"},"castles":[{"castleId":145,"townId":70,"active":1,"name_LO":"Castelul Corvinilor","settlement_HU":"Vajdahunyad","settlement_LO":"Hunedoara","address":"Curtea Corvine\u0219tilor nr. 1-3","listorder":1,"gps_lat":"45.7491580000","gps_long":"22.8881390000","oldcounty":35,"country":4,"division":20,"cond":1,"entrance":1,"varaklink":"https:\/\/varak.hu\/latnivalo\/index\/1439-Vajdahunyad-Vajdahunyad-vara\/","homepage":"http:\/\/www.castelulcorvinilor.ro\/","openinghours":"http:\/\/www.castelulcorvinilor.ro\/info-vizitatori\/?lang=ro","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Carcea Daniel, CC BY-SA 3.0 RO \u003Chttps:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/ro\/deed.en\u003E, via Wikimedia Commons\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Castelul_Corvinilor_HD.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022512\u0022 alt=\u0022Castelul Corvinilor HD\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/b4\/Castelul_Corvinilor_HD.jpg\/512px-Castelul_Corvinilor_HD.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Castelul_Corvinilor_HD.jpg\u0022\u003ECarcea Daniel\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/ro\/deed.en\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA 3.0 RO\u003C\/a\u003E, via Wikimedia Commons","name":"Vajdahunyad Castle","seolink":"vajdahunyad-castle-castelul-corvinilor","georegion":"Hunyad","description":"","nameorigin":"","history":"#1|@#3|@11th century|King Stephen I established a royal county whose centre was the hillfort (\u00d3hunyad, Old Hunyad) on Saint Peter Hill (Szent P\u00e9ter, S\u00e2npetru) south of the present day castle. It was the military and political centre of the county led by the royal isp\u00e1n. The fort lost its significance after the Mongol invasion. The name Hunyad probably comes from a personal name with the d affix. The Vajda prefix refers to the fact that it was the estate of the vajda of Transylvania. The Romanian name comes from the Hunyadv\u00e1ra (meaning Hunyad\u2019s caste) form of the Hungarian name.@#5|@1267|Istv\u00e1n, the son of King B\u00e9la IV of Hungary, retreated to the castle of Feketehalom after the battle fought against his father at D\u00e9va, and ordered the castellan of Hunyad Castle to recruit soldiers and hurry to liberate Feketehalom besieged by the army led by L\u0151rinc son of Kem\u00e9ny. It is not certain that this referred to the hillfort of Hunyad or the stone castle already existed at this time.@#6|@14th century|The castle that is now known as Sebes Castle located in the historical Kolozs County was called Hunyad, therefore every document from the reign of the Anjou kings refer to that castle.@after 1330|According to a theory, King Charles I of Hungary ordered the construction of the stone castles of Hunyad and H\u00e1tszeg after his unsuccessful campaign against Wallachia, in order to protect the borders of Hungary, because D\u00e9va Castle to the north lay too far from the border.@October 18, 1409|King Sigismund of Hungary donated the estate to ken\u00e9z Vajk (Woyk) son of Serbe, the father of Hunyadi J\u00e1nos. Vajk fled to Transylvania from Wallachia. This estate gave the family its name. Romanians spread that Vajk was Vlach, but in fact his origin is unknown. It is also known, that he was a ken\u00e9z, a leader, and the leading class of the Vlachs (the nobility of Wallachia) was of Cuman origin at that time. His name also is of Turk origin. Cumans later assimilated to the Vlach majority of Wallachia, just like the originally Turk Bulgars assimilated to the Slavic majority. An extensive, but scarcely populated estate belonged to the castle, which didn\u2019t generate much income.@February 10, 1410|King Sigismund issued the permanent letter of donation, in which Vajk was already called Hunyadi. It is most likely the castle did not exist at that time based on the fact, that it was not mentioned in the document. The present day castle was probably built by Vajk's son Hunyadi J\u00e1nos as the centre of the estate.@1446|The castle was mentioned for the first time by written sources.@1446-1453|Hunyadi J\u00e1nos was the governor of Hungary. During this period, his wife, Szil\u00e1gyi Erzs\u00e9bet, lived in the castle. The castle was transformed and expanded around that time. The castle lay far from the battlefields of the Turkish wars at that time and was considered an aristocratic residence rather than a military fortress.@#7|@1482|King Matthias of Hungary gave the castle to his illegitimate son, Corvin J\u00e1nos, Prince of Lipt\u00f3, who was later forced to pawn it to Kinizsi P\u00e1l, the isp\u00e1n of Temes County.@1490|King Matthias died.@1494|Corvin J\u00e1nos pawned the castle to Kinizsi P\u00e1l and his wife, Magyar Benigna.@1496|Bishop Bak\u00f3cz Tam\u00e1s of Eger acquired the pawn, but he could not take the castle into his possession.@1504|Corvin J\u00e1nos died.@1505|The only son of Corvin J\u00e1nos, the child Krist\u00f3f, died. He was the last male member of the family.@1508|Erzs\u00e9bet, the daughter of Corvin J\u00e1nos also died. The castle was inherited by the widow of Corvin J\u00e1nos, Frangep\u00e1n Beatrix.@1508|Bishop Bak\u00f3cz Tam\u00e1s tried to take the castle into his possession, but Castellan Nagy Gy\u00f6rgy and his hussars drove away the chapter of Transylvania and the men of the vajda of Transylvania coming to the official registration. After that, King Ul\u00e1szl\u00f3 II of Hungary issued a letter of donation for the castle to Frangep\u00e1n Beatrix.@1509|Frangep\u00e1n Beatrix married George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, the nephew of King Ul\u00e1szl\u00f3 II.@1510|After the death of Frangep\u00e1n Beatrix, George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, inherited the Hunyadi estates.@#8|@1528|A fire devastated the castle.@17 September 1531|George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, handed the castle over to King Ferdinand I. He was a supporter of Ferdinand against King John I.@June 1534|Bishop Czibak Imre of V\u00e1rad captured the castle on behalf of King John I by siege. Czibak Imre was assassinated by Lodovico Gritti's men later that year.@1536|King John I of Hungary donated it to T\u00f6r\u00f6k B\u00e1lint of Enying.@#9|@1557|T\u00f6r\u00f6k J\u00e1nos had his adulterous wife, Kendi Anna, beheaded in the castle courtyard.@#10|@#12|@1601|Mihai Viteazul, Voivode of the Wallachia, besieged the castle without any success, although he burnt the roofs of the castle buildings.@#13|@#14|@1618|The castle was acquired by the Bethlens of Ikt\u00e1r. Prince Bethlen G\u00e1bor of Transylvania transformed the castle and reinforced it with outer defences, then gave it to his nephew, Bethlen Istv\u00e1n, in 1622 together with the estate. After the death of Bethlen Istv\u00e1n in 1632, his wife, Sz\u00e9chy M\u00e1ria, lived in the castle for a short time.@#15|@#16|@#17|@#18|@1648|Bethlen Katalin, the wife of Z\u00f3lyomi D\u00e1vid, acquired the castle.@#19|@#20|@#21|@1671|Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre acquired the estate and stayed here several times. The Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly family had estates in northern Hungary (now Slovakia) and made their fortune from the cattle trade.@#22|@#23|@#24|@1685|Prince Apafi Mih\u00e1ly of Transylvania confiscated the estate from Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre, when Transylvania broke with the Turks after they lost power in Hungary. Apafi Mih\u00e1ly I left the estate to his son Mih\u00e1ly.@#25|@August 21, 1690|Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre, the former leader of the anti-Habsburg Hungarian kuruc uprising, crossed the mountains with Turkish and Wallachian auxiliaries, attacked the imperial army of General Heisler from behind and defeated him.@September 21, 1690|The nobility of Transylvania joined Th\u00f6k\u00f6ly Imre and he was elected Prince of Transylvania in Szeben. Soon the combined armies of Castelli and Heisler pushed him out of Transylvania.@#26|@#27|@1724|The Treasury inherited the estate from Bethlen Kata, the widow of Apafi Mih\u00e1ly II.@from 1725|The offices of the estate owned by the Treasury moved to the castle.@1784|The castle was last used for military purpose, when most of the nobility of Hunyad County found refuge here from the Vlach uprising of Horea. Here they successfully repelled the attacks of the Vlachs. The little town was an industrial centre of regional importance and the seat of one of the districts of Hunyad County. In 1784, Emperor Joseph II ordered an increase in the number of border guards. The Valch serfs in Transylvania were under the misapprehension that the conscription had been started, and began to gather en masse, as the military service was the only way for the Vlach migrants that overpopulated in the Transylvanian mountains to escape the misery. The leaders of the local administration, believing that they were being bypassed by the imperial court, tried to block the process. In addition, the Vlach Orthodox priests incited the Vlach population against the Hungarians, whom they hated, and fooled the Vlachs with the myth of their Daco-Roman origin. Horea spread the word that the emperor had appointed him as the leader of the Vlachs. The enraged Vlach peasants attacked the Hungarian and Saxon citizens and began a terrible ethnic cleansing, exterminating 133 mostly Hungarian settlements and murdering thousands of people. After the mob was crushed, two of their leaders, Horea and Clo\u0219ca, were executed by the wheel in Gyulafeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r. The third leader, Cri\u015fan, cowardly committed suicide in the prison. There was no mass reprisal.@1807|King Francis I of Hungary ordered the renovation of the castle during his visit, but the constructions were ended by a fire due to lightning strike in 1818.@#28|@after 1849|After the suppression of the Hungarian War of Independence, offices operated within the centuries-old walls until 1854, when another fire destroyed the roofs of the buildings.@1868|The doctor and university professor Ar\u00e1nyi Lajos started a campaign to gather public donations for the renovation of the castle.@1870-1874|The architect Steindl Imre led the renovation of the castle in uniform Gothic style. He transformed the roofs to their present day form.@1896|The replica of Vajdahunyad Castle was inaugurated in Budapest as part of the celebration commemorating the Millennium of Hungary. It was originally built from wood, but it was rebuilt from stone in 1908 due to its success.@1907-1913|The historically correct renovation of the castle was led by M\u00f6ller Istv\u00e1n.&studhist.blog.hu: Vajdahunyad v\u00e1ra \u00e9s a Hunyadi csal\u00e1d|https:\/\/studhist.blog.hu\/2017\/12\/19\/vajdahunyad_vara_es_a_hunyadi_csalad\nmaszol.ro|https:\/\/maszol.ro\/kultura\/122792-kincsesladank-erdely-buszke-vartornyok-es-bed-lt-kemenyek-varosa-vajdahunyad\nstudhist.blog.hu: Vajdahunyad v\u00e1ra \u00e9s Bethlen G\u00e1bor erd\u00e9lyi fejedelem|https:\/\/studhist.blog.hu\/2017\/12\/27\/vajdahunyad_vara_es_bethlen_gabor_erdelyi_fejedelem"}],"sights":[{"sightId":1792,"townId":70,"active":1,"name_LO":"Biserica Romano-Catolic\u0103","address":"Strada Revolu\u021biei 5","mapdata":"1|1606|169","gps_lat":"45.7522327747","gps_long":"22.8985757571","religion":1,"oldtype":"1","newtype":"1","homepage":"https:\/\/ersekseg.ro\/hu\/templom\/649","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"","csemadoklink":"","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022\u021aetcu Mircea Rare\u0219, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:RO_HD_Hunedoara_Biserica_romano-catolica_(2).jpg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022256\u0022 alt=\u0022RO HD Hunedoara Biserica romano-catolica (2)\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6f\/RO_HD_Hunedoara_Biserica_romano-catolica_%282%29.jpg\/256px-RO_HD_Hunedoara_Biserica_romano-catolica_%282%29.jpg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:RO_HD_Hunedoara_Biserica_romano-catolica_(2).jpg\u0022\u003E\u021aetcu Mircea Rare\u0219\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\u0022\u003ECC BY-SA 4.0\u003C\/a\u003E, via Wikimedia Commons","name":"Assumption Roman Catholic Church","seolink":"assumption-roman-catholic-church","note":"","history":"The church was built in 1910 and consecrated by Fetzer Antal, Bishop of Nagyv\u00e1rad, on 26 May 1912."},{"sightId":1793,"townId":70,"active":1,"name_LO":"","address":"","mapdata":"1|370|559","gps_lat":"45.7499318739","gps_long":"22.8879279839","religion":1,"oldtype":"2","newtype":"2","homepage":"","openinghours":"","muemlekemlink":"https:\/\/www.muemlekem.hu\/hatareset\/Nepomuki-Szent-Janos-kapolna-Vajdahunyad-3123","csemadoklink":"","picture":"\u003Ca title=\u0022Giuseppe Milo, CC BY 3.0 <https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Corvin_Castle_Hunedoara_Romania_Travel_Photography_(225889455).jpeg\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg width=\u0022512\u0022 alt=\u0022Corvin Castle Hunedoara Romania Travel Photography (225889455)\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/be\/Corvin_Castle_Hunedoara_Romania_Travel_Photography_%28225889455%29.jpeg\/512px-Corvin_Castle_Hunedoara_Romania_Travel_Photography_%28225889455%29.jpeg\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","picture_ref":"\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Corvin_Castle_Hunedoara_Romania_Travel_Photography_(225889455).jpeg\u0022\u003EGiuseppe Milo\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\u0022\u003ECC BY 3.0\u003C\/a\u003E, via Wikimedia Commons","name":"Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk","seolink":"chapel-of-st-john-of-nepomuk","note":"","history":"St John of Nepomuk is the patron saint of those who travel on roads and water, so his statues are often placed on bridges. 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