Father: József
Mailáth
Mother: Kata Lőrinczy de Lőrincz
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Sisters: Angelica, Clára, Barbara-Ursula, Julia
Brothers: Anthony (Antal),
Francis (Ferenc), George (György) (I)
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Names: József Mailáth
Born: 1735
Place: Nagyszombat, Pozsony county, Hungary (now called Trnava, Slovakia)
Died: 17 December 1810
Place: Nustár, Szerém county.
Mail: tmajlath@melbpc.org.au
HTTP: http://geocities.datacellar.net/Heartland/Bluffs/9548/
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Additional information by Joseph Mailáth
: JEMailath@aol.com
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Excellentissimus
ac Illustrissimus Dominus
IOSEPHUS MAILÁTH DE SZÉKHELY
S.C. et R.A.M. actualis intimus Status Consiliarius, liberi
Portus et Urbis Fluminensis, ac totius
Litoralis Hungarico-maritimi I-us Gubernator, liberarum
maritimo-commercialium Urbium
Flumen et Buccari Capitaneus civilis et Commendans militaris, nec
non I. Comitatus
Szeverinensis supremus Comes.
Mailáth József was born in 1735 and began his official career in local government first as a notary, later as a member of the Diet. In 1767 he became a Councilor to the Royal Treasury.
From 1776 to 1783 he was Governor of the Adriatic sea port of Fiume in Modrus Fiume county of historical Hungary now called Rijeke, Croatia. The grey area on the map below was Croatia before 1920. Fiume town hall and its tower can be seen in the background of his portrait above. The Flumen mentioned above in the inscription is the Latin name for Fiume.
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The town of Fiume and its harbour around 1910 (click on map for a larger view) :-
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From 1783, he was appointed a Senior Official in the Royal Hungarian and Transylvanian Chancellery rising to the position of Imperial Minister of State.
On 9 May 1785 József was elevated to the rank of Count "primogeniture" and on 5 June 1794 with unrestricted succession. His children János and József received nobility in 1794. His third son Károly (Charles) received it in 1808.
In 1806, József was awarded
the St.
Stephen Cross
- a high distinction, for 50 years of civil service.
The Apostolic Order of St. Stephen
was founded by the Empress Maria Theresa on 5 May, 1764 to reward civil
merit by members of the Hungarian nobility with at least four
quarterings of nobility.
It kept to its original purpose to the end of the Empire and is the rarest of the great Austro-Hungarian orders since it never became a common reward for service.
There is a manor house in Törökbálint, a small village near Budapest in the hills surrounding Buda, called "Mailáth Kastély".
The house and surrounding estate was originally a Jesuit monastery and after the dissolution of the order, Joseph (II) purchased the house with all the estate in 1776 and converted it into a manor house. The estate and house passed onto his son John, the poet and historian who pawned it during 1843 against a loan from Anthony Festetics. Later the house and estate belonged to Rezső Meller. Today, the house is a sanatorium.
In the nave of the manor house chapel, which is not in use as such any longer and which more than likely originated from the time of the Jesuit Fathers who had occupied the house, there are two memorial plaques with the following inscription (translated from the Hungarian):
"Count
Joseph Mailáth de Székhely senior
Privy Counselor's wife
nee Countess Anna Sándor
died 21 August 1808 in her 49th. year
this memorial was erected by her sorrowful daughter
Countess Emeric Batthjány nee Elizabeth Countess
Mailáth de Székhely"
"Amália
Countess Mailáth de Székhely
died 29 May 1812, in her 16th. year
this memorial was erected by her sorrowful sister
Countess Emeric Batthjány nee Elizabeth Countess
Mailáth de Székhely"
The county coat-of-arms are from the site by András Szeitz and Don Mabry.
Last updated 20 June 1999 by T. Majlath.(tmajlath@melbpc.org.au)
A part of the FAMILY WEB Project.
