10. György Hosszútóthy (?-after 1649), captain of Veszprém.

... Autograph note concerning losses caused by the Ottoman forces of Palota and Fehérvár.
“Az Tracta alat az kiket Veszprem vara alol Palotai es Feiervari Torokok el vittek es el vaktak” (“Under this district are those whom the Turks of Palota and Fehérvár carried off and killed from beneath the castle of Veszprém”). Below this heading appear nine names, followed by a tenth entry reading: “Vittek egi Giermeket” (“They carried off a child”). At the conclusion of the note, Hosszútóthy remarks that during one raid the Ottomans committed “nem vitez emberhez illendo dolgot” (“an act unworthy of a valiant man”), when they crawled into a pigsty beneath the fortress and cut off the animals’ ears and legs.
The document is an interesting record of life along the Ottoman frontier, where raids and plundering remained an everyday occurrence even during periods of peace between the two great powers.
The Hosszútóthy family had possessed estates in Veszprém County from the fourteenth century onwards. From 1616 to 1632 György served as cavalry captain at Zalaegerszeg, then until 1638 as vice-captain of Pápa. Between 1638 and 1644 he was captain-general of Veszprém. In May 1639 he was dispatched to Bohemia with three hundred hussars from Veszprém, where he also commanded the hussars of Győr and Kanizsa. Between 1640 and 1641 he was held captive by the Ottomans in Buda, who demanded a ransom of 15,000 imperial thalers for his release. He was still alive in 1649, and with his death the Hosszútóthy family became extinct. (Géza Pálffy: A veszprémi végvár fő- és vicekapitányainak életrajzi adattára /16–17. század/. In: Veszprém a török korban. Felolvasóülés Veszprém török kori emlékeiről. Veszprém, 1998.)
1 written page.
Undated (Veszprém, c. 1640).
 
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