Nagyvázsony - Kinizsi Castle

In Nagvázsony the fortification is relatively well preserved, having been converted in the early 15th C, into a residential castle. In 1472 King Matthias I presented the castle together with the surrounding estates to Pál Kinizsi, a former miller's boy, born in Nagvázsony. Kinizsi had won the king's favor through his victorious leadership of the royal army, the so-called "Black Troops". Kinizsi had the castle extended to its present form. During the wars of the following centuries it withstood numerous attacks; in the middle of the 17th C both castle and village became the property of the counts of Zichy. The Zichys' loyalty to the emperor prevented the castle from being destroyed by Habsburg troops at the beginning of the 18th C