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From: "Laszlo B. Apathy III" <>
Subject: [HUNGARY-L] FYI: BARDOS Family
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 20:50:39 -0500


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An old "Missing Links" from Julie Case Vol 5 #4. 27 Jan 2000.

WHAT'S IN A NAME? THE STORY OF THE HUNGARIAN SURNAME BARDOS

by Dennis Bardos,Ph.D. <>

In the year of 1647 the Ottoman Turks were trying to expand
their captured land in Hungary. Just north of the fortified town
of Eger (that was heroically defended for 40 years before it
fell), the villagers, among them a young peasant lad named Peter
and his four brothers succeeded in stopping a Turkish advance
and beheaded the "pasha," their leader. King Ferdinand II
decorated Peter a hero and granted a title of nobility, naming
him "Bardos," Hungarian for "The One With The Battle-ax."

Peter Bardos and his brothers lived in the village Lenarddaroc,
about 20 miles north of Eger, Hungary. The crest with the "Bard"
on top of it (stylized as a broad-bladed sword) can still be
seen in the tiny church painted on the wall. The cemetery is
absolutely full of Bardos tombstones and there are more than 200
Bardoses still living there. Some use a differentiating name
also, like Barna-Bardos, Barci-Bardos, Bartok-Bardos, or
Deak-Bardos, to designate various branches of the extensive
family. Our family comes from the Deak-Bardos branch.

There are an estimated 600-700 Bardoses living today, mostly in
Hungary and in central Europe, who can trace their ancestry to
the family. There is a small group of perhaps 80 Bardos, on the
island of Rhodos in Greece who may be the descendants of Bardos
refugees of the turbulent 1848-49 war years. There are some 100
Bardos families in the U.S.A. (collected from phone books), most
of whom are of Hungarian origin. For further information, you
may contact me.

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