The House of Garay or Garai (Croatian: Gorjanski) was a Hungarian-Croatian noble family, a branch of the Dorozsma (Durusma) clan, with notable members in the 14th and 15th centuries. They were lords of Csesznek.
The family was descended from the Dorozsma kindred.[1] Béla, Duke of Slavonia, granted the eponymous domain of Gara in Valkó County (now Gorjani in Croatia) to Comes John and his brother, Stephen, in 1269.[2] The charter of grant mentioned that Stephen was the duke's swordbearer.[2] Stephen's sons, Andrew and Paul, were the ancestors of the two branches of the family.[3]
Andrew, the founder of the "Palatine" branch, did not hold offices.[2] He married an unnamed daughter of Ladislaus Nevnai and Yolanda Kórógyi.[4] Nevnai held estates in Valkó and Pozsega Counties.[4] Andrew fathered two sons, Nicholas and Paul, but the latter died young.[2] Their maternal grandmother bequeathed her estates in Baranya County to them.[4]
Andrew's brother, Paul, founded the "Bánfi" branch of the family.[4]
Nicholas I Garai (Croatian: Nikola I Gorjanski, Hungarian: Garai Miklós I), the chief governor of Pressburg, was a palatine to the King of Hungary (1375–1385). He was killed in 1386.
The following family tree depicts the known members of the family before its split into two branches:[3] (* = born; † = died; ∞ = wife or husband; b. = before; c. = in about; m. = mentioned)
| NN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| John | Stephen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Andrew ∞N. Nevnai | Paul | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Palatine" branch | "Bánfi" branch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The following family tree depicts the known members of the "Palatine" branch of the family:[5][6] (* = born; † = died; ∞ = wife or husband; b. = before; c. = in about; m. = mentioned)
| Andrew ∞N. Nevnai | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nicholas I Garai | Paul | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nicholas II Garai 1∞Helena of Serbia 2∞Anna of Celje | Elisabeth ∞Simon Szécsényi | Helen ∞Nicholas II Szécsi | Dorothea ∞Nicholas Frankopan | John Garai ∞Hedwig of Masovia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (1) Nicholas III Garai ∞Margaret Cseh | (2) Ladislaus Garai ∞Alexandra of Cieszyn | (2) Dorothea 1∞Ladislaus Kanizsai 2∞Raynald Rozgonyi | (2) Barbara ∞John Korógyi | Catherine ∞Nicholas Bebek | Dorothea Tvrtko II of Bosnia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Job Garai ∞Euphrosina Újlaki | Anne ∞Emeric Hédervári | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
