Talk:Hunyadi

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Is that speed skater really related to the Hunyadi family we're speaking about here? Alensha 23:41, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Let me point to contradiction between the article 'Hunyadi' - which says "The Hunyadi family is sometimes referred to as Corvin in Romanian" - and article 'Matthias Corvinus of Hungary', which says: "The later epithet Corvinus was coined by Matthias' biographer Antonio Bonfini, who claimed that the Hunyadi family (whose coat of arms depicts a raven—corvus in Latin) descended from the ancient Roman gens of the Corvini." The Corvin name is widely used in Hungarian (just think of Matthias' famous library Corvina). Some more research into the question is recommended, but the Romanian etymology certainly needs to be corrected to Latin in the 'Hunyadi' article. (By user Korovioff, Jan 28, 2006)

I'm deleting the "Hunyadi family" section, due to irrelevant information. If there's a coherent previous version that's better than the current one, please revert to that. -SCarter —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.121.198.15 (talk) 05:45, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Just because someone has the Hunyadi surname it doesn't mean that he or she is descended from or related to the historic Hunyadi family. Many Hungarian serfs/peasants adopted the names of their feudal landlords over the centuries and this explains why there are people with the family name of Hunyadi. This practice of adopting the names of noble families by their serf tennants is somewhat similar to African-American slaves being given the family names of their owners, thus many African-Americans today have the surname of a family that had owned one or more of their slave ancestors.

I agree with the above contributer who feels like I do that the Hunyadi family section of the article has irrelevant information. The Hunyadi family from Tennessee are not the only Hunyadis in the United States or Hungary for that matter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gyula (talk • contribs) 02:39, 24 March 2008 (UTC)