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My great grandfather Michal Kurucz was born in the village of Niedecki Zamok, Poland. This is a village directly below the Castle at Niedecki. Most family members worked for the Baron who owned the castle. The castle has been restored and may be visited.
Origin of the KURUCZ family name:
A TALK WITH THE GUIDE AT THE NIEDZICA CASTLE - FRANTISEK SEDLAK
"Several times the castle was captured by the Hungarians. One of the camps - Jan Zizka's camp - had been here for three years. The camp was renamed - a camp TABORE. The up rising of the partakers of various rebellions began about 1670. Perhaps they are the descents of the Kuruc family. Tököly's Kurucs they were named. And the family is really named after them. They were very able-bodied men. They captured the castle several times. It was a very difficult task to capture it because there was some trenches with water around the castle."
"Old people say the Kuruc family name came from the rebellions of Tököly's uprising in the 17th century. It was about 1670. Some of the rebels (known as the Kurucs) stayed here. They were very big and strong men. "
The second reference: A History of the Habsburg Empire 1526-1918 by Robert A Kann, page 73. a general revolutionary peasant force, the Kurucok, emerged from these actions and remained at least as guerillas in being for a generation.
"Kurucok'(1) -Yet a general revolutionary peasant force 1620 - 1720 led by Imre Thokoly a noble from Upper Hungary." (1) The name derives either from the Latin curx (cross), the peasant revolting in the name of the cross, or from the turkish word Khurudsch (the rebel) "
page 121
The rising of the Kurucoks under the leadership of Francis Rakoczy II culminating in the revolutionary Hungarian - Transylvanian diet of Onod of 1707 led to defeat in the peace of Szatmar of 1711, spelling disaster for the cause of unfree peasants in reconquered Hungary and Transylvania
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