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Elefánthy
The House of Elefánthy (also spelled ''Elefánty'') were one of the oldest noble families in the Kingdom of Hungary. At their peak during the Middle Ages the family rose to an influential and wealthy position.
==Origins==
The exact origins of the family are unknown. Some authors believe the Elefánthy to be a branch of the Ludány kindred, which itself was a branch of the genus Hont-Pázmány.〔Miroslav Plaček; Martin Bóna: Encyklopédia slovenských hradov (Slovart, 2007)〕 The eminent 18th century polymath Matthias Bel, in his ''Notitia Hungariae novae historic-geographia'', writes that a 12th-century ancestor of the family was part of King Coloman’s delegation to Sicily to propose a royal marriage. This ancestor was gifted an elephant in Sicily, which he brought back and presented to the King, who in return gave him the original estates in Nyitra County.〔Erik Fügedi: The Elefanthy: The Hungarian Nobleman and His Kindred (Central European University Press, 1998)〕
A more recent theory as to the unique name and coat of arms of the family suggests that Elefánth could have been a personal name, derived from the French Oliphant, an ivory horn made popular in court circles during the Middle Ages from the knightly romance Chanson de Roland.〔Erik Fügedi: The Elefanthy: The Hungarian Nobleman and His Kindred (Central European University Press, 1998)〕 An ancestor of the family may have been named after some such splendid hunting horn.
An extensive study of the family name by Endre Toth concluded that it originates from the personal, German name of ''Helfant''. Due to the age of the family, Toth suggests that the ancestor of the family came from Bavaria at the time of Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians or Stephen I of Hungary.〔(TÓTH ENDRE: Az Elefánt helynév eredetérıl ).〕
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