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  • Comment: It would be helpful to the readers (including the reviewers) if the references were formatted to make it clear what the sources are. For instance, references 3, 4, and 5 all refer to "Hadtortenelmi-Kozlemenyek-2013-4". In the source list, we find Hadtörténeti Intézet és Múzeum Folyóirata (which, if we can believe Google Translate, means "Journal of the Institute and Museum of Military History" – but we can't trust Google Translate without human verification). Following the link in that source, we get to a publication called Hadtörténelmi Közlemények, published by Hadtörténeti Intézet és Múzeum Folyóirata. But it takes a bit of effort for a non-Hungarian speaker to get that connection, and we still don't know just what the source is.
    My best guess is that it's a journal published by that institute and museum, and that the information is found in issue 4 from 2013. But that's still just a guess – and the page numbers are all wrong, because that journal issue starts on page 963. The minimum of information we'd need would also include the name of the author, and the title of the article within the journal. Assuming that this is a journal, the quickest way to include a correct citation would be for you to copy the "Most common fields" code from Wikipedia:Template index/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference#Citing a journal and add it to the draft with the relevant info. Note that "title" is the title of the article in the journal, not the name of the journal (which goes in the "journal" field). bonadea contributions talk 07:30, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
Nicholas Monoky de Monok
Baron Monoky de Monok
Coat of arms
Tenure1625-1644
PredecessorOffice Created
SuccessorMátyás Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály
Full name
monoki Monoky Miklós
Years active1590s-1644
Bornca. 1570
Monok, Kingdom of Hungary
ResidenceMonok
Wars and battles
Noble familyMonoky
Issue
  • John
  • Anna
  • Elizabeth
  • Susanna
FatherJohn Monoky de Monok
OccupationMilitary Officer

Baron Nicholas Monoky de Monok (Hungarian: monoki Monoky Miklós) was a member of the ancient Monoky family of Zemplén County.[1] He was born in the late 16th century to John Monoky de Monok, a prominent soldier who served as Captain of Fülek (Fiľakovo) Castle until his death in 1598.[2] Nicholas had several siblings, including an elder brother Michael (d. 1592) and a younger brother Francis, who served as Alispán of Abaúj.

Military Career

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Nicholas Monoky came of age during the Long Turkish War and the following era of rebellions in Royal Hungary. His military career began under Prince Stephen Bocskai’s revolt (1604–1606) against Habsburg rule. In 1605, Nicholas served as a hajdú captain under General Francis Rhédey, one of Bocskai’s allies.[3] A 1605 muster at Korpona describe Nicholas was a passionate huntsman, Francis Rhédey described him with the quote, “I hunt according to the example of Esau,” (“Ézsau példájára űzöm a vadászatot”).[3] By 1607, after Bocskai’s peace with the Habsburgs, Nicholas had risen to become the Captain of Ónod Castle[1] and came to become a trusted confidant of Prince Gabriel Báthory of Transylvania.[4] Later, when Prince Gabriel Bethlen launched his campaign against Habsburg King Ferdinand II in 1619 as part of the Thirty Years’ War, Nicholas joined the Bethlen's forces. By 1620, he was in charge of 700 horsemen and held the rank of a főkapitány (chief captain) of the Upper Hungarian county militias beyond the Fatra Mountains.[5] Follow the Peace of Nikolsburg in 1621, Nicholas realigned his allegiance to the Habsburg king.

Political and Court Life

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On 16 August 1625, King Ferdinand II signed a charter elevating Nicholas to the rank of hereditary Baron of Hungary along with the privilege of using red sealing wax.[2]

Let this be known among the soldiers, and let your good name be with the many: by your brave deeds, reconciling hearts in field campaigns on land and sea, serving alternately as leader and as captain—when the fortress of Lata of Satarchiensis lay threatened with demolition by the bey Mehemet—when our most serene patron, the late Prince Archduke Maximilian of Austria, summoned as general of the war-host to Eger County to confront the enemy, you advanced to meet him with your utmost strength and military effort; and on account of these distinguished exploits, at the recommendation of the most magnificent Nicolaus Palki (then general of the lands beyond the Danube), you were brought by ship in view of the Order’s standards, with universal praise, into the personal favor of His Highness.

— King Ferdinand II of Hungary granting Nicholas Monoky baronial status, 1625, Libri Regii (Királyi Könyvek), National Archives of Hungary

In earlier years, Prince Bethlen appointed him to high command during the 1619–1620 campaign. Letters from Bethlen’s chancery in late 1620 mention Nicholas among the princely counselors (“fejedelmi tanácsosok”), who were deliberating strategy and negotiating with Habsburg envoys.

Legacy

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Nicholas fought in many defining struggles of the early 17th century and was a confidant of leaders in both Habsburg Hungary and the Principality of Translyvania.

He married Anna Csetneki in the early 17th century and had issue,[2]

The mainline Monoky estates became one of the early assets of the Andrássy family, which rose to great prominence in Hungary in the following centuries. The Monoky Castle in Monok remained associated with the Andrássy family.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Monoky család. (Monoki. †) | Nagy Iván: Magyarország családai | Kézikönyvtár". www.arcanum.com (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2025-06-20.
  2. ^ a b c Ráth 1860, p. 554.
  3. ^ a b Hadtortenelmi-Kozlemenyek-2013-4, p. 99.
  4. ^ Hadtortenelmi-Kozlemenyek-2013-4, p. 98.
  5. ^ Hadtortenelmi-Kozlemenyek-2013-4, p. 101.

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