Primor Bakk V. István Dr. - as elder son - moved from Transylvania’s Szentkatolna, he moved to Hungary and married here. On 25. of October in 1918. he worked in the Hospital called Szent István as surgeon doctor and he was dead in Budapest by Spanish flu. By him there were finished the 451 years spent in Sekelland / Secelland.

His son primor Szentkatolna’s Bakk István Endre was already born in Nyíregyháza of Hungary in 1916. By the Trianon there was found the family in Transylvania. The wife of Bakk István called Füstér Julianna Terézia together with her son and her mother - called Radoszta Julia - settled down in Transylvania’s Kolozsvár. The princely and countly Füstér family originated from Catalonia. The Füstér families are known in Spain from the 13. century.

By the Füstér family there were built castles: at time of I. Jakab’s kingdom (2. of February in 1208. - 27. of July in 1276.) in Aragónia, Valencia and Mallorca, they were owners in the island called Baleár Mallorca, furthermore in provinces called Valencia, Alicante, Barcelona, Castellón too. By the Füstér family there were built castles at time also III. Alfonz (4. November 1265 - 18. Juny 1291.) Aragonia’s king: in 1248 in Catalonia’s Xativa and Peniscola, in 1263. in Alcoy, furthermore in 1290. Cocentaina, in 1296. in Albaida, in 1300. in Saint Mateu, in 1306. Valencia too. One of the branch of the family went in Hungary - by helping of a Franciscan monk become monk from governior called Capistran Saint János, who went in Hungary together with his ordered crusader army - where he founded his family. The later descendant of this Füstér family called Vál’s Füstér Ferenc commissioned officer of Ürmény’s state’s judge Füstér Julianna Terézia - doughter of Füstér Imre who had furniture factory - connected to this family and her husband was a doctor called primor Szentkatolna’s Bakk István.

In 1941. Bakk István Endre turned back in Hungary. He knew about the past of his family, they had the king’s Scythian past of ancient times. There was the collection of laws of Hungarian kingdom, that was called Tripartitum / Treble book / Hármas könyv: III. part., 4. address / czim: „About the Transylvania’s Scythians we called them Seceler / Sekeler. Without them in Transylvania’s territories there were Scythians - separated from those Scythians who firstly arrived in Pannonia - gone in Transylvania, they were privileged nobles, we called them Seceler in Hungarian language and in wrong student’s language Siculus’s; Their laws and habits were totally different; in fighting, warring they were wery experienced; They divided the inheritances and offices (as old habit) among themselves by progenies, descendants and branches of descendants….”

Bakk István Endre aversed from all of the Hungary’s kingdom without the king and after it following all of political forms. He didn’t fill up offices and wasn’t member of Parties so the Fascist Party and Communist Party yet.

The historical families, upper middle-classes and industrialists concerned by the nationalization after 1945. were disregarded at Opposition and National Roundtable-discussions between the 1988 - 1990. Unspokenly there were maden into it privation of nationalized possessions, on the backgrond of those important points there were formed single topics left out the members represented the past before 1945.

Joined to deciding of members of CILANE Bakk István Endre painter-artist - our relative - found the Bakk Endre Canon Found in 11. of October in 1990. Bakk Endre Canon had written the history of Bak and Jancsó families, by which was included the age of time of Bakk family in Secelland from 1467- until the 1883. By Bakk Endre there wasn’t written about the ancient historical past of Seceler so about the origin of our family yet. At that time Habsburg power atministration and the empire way there were powered by the Germanizeing, that’s why this question was left open in connecting to the historical directing, as by him there was written: he left this question for the after-ages. He talked about the history of the family’s name only on average. About Bakk family there were written in the big encyclopedias Révai and Pallas too.

That time arrived: when there was important the history in the United Europe because of that: by it there were given the present political and relation-system. We had to present our historical past, the familiy’s past in the whole extended Bakk’s family-history. We had to write: The Bakk family by its historical past and more than its 850 years is the same as the European dinasties, we musn’t act under the effects of the changing historical periods and the effects of the social ages powering of discrimination.

The Bakk family is Renaissance aristocratic family by its Scythian past - but not by the King’s will-. At time of III. Béla from 1172. Bakk nationality started by Mok palatine of Hungary. The branches of Bakk families in the Hungarian history were the followings: Count’s Bak (Karlovics II. János ban 1521.); Ban’s (Korbávia’s Bakk was Dalmatian and Croatian ban in 1259.); there had primor’s titles (Hatolyka’s Bak II. György 1602.) and they took outstanding role at Renaissance age of Hungary: Berendi’s Bak János baron (1444.); Ugocsa’s and Erdőd’s Bak comes’ at time of IV. Béla king in 1264.; Bak Ung’s comes at time of Károly Róbert in 1321.

The members of count (comes) Bakk family practiced totally free landowner’s power as owners of the territories (liberi domini) - from the years of 1300 eternal, taken out from the county’s authority -. The special territories of countships at the members of Bakk family remained for the longest time in Croatia. In Hungarian kingdom there weren’t come into being lot’s of county, we could mentioned the followings: Secelland for the king’s Scythian Seclers and among the private counties the Korbávia’s Bakk county; Zagorje’s Cille’s’ county - which was given the Vitovecz János by Matthias king in 1463-; Bazini’s, Szentgyörgyi’s, Beszterce’s, Szepese’s of Szapolya’s’ county and Hunyad’s county of Corvin János. At the other counties we don’t know surely: the naming of comes maybe had meaning of county or simply bailiff of estate. But by the 15. law of 1495. there were stopped this special right / title to use for counts and for everybody, by this there were ment all of the listed counts.

In the 14. century the designation of „barons / bárók” there were used only exclusively for the head / high office-holders of the country. On the 18. of Apryl in 1444. in Buda there were forced the decree of I. Ulászló by the Parliament, In this there was found the register of all of the participants of Diet. By the Parliament of this feudal age in 1444. there was contained the heads of the country (counts) and names of aristocratics took part in, among the others the names of Hunyadi János and Bakk János too. At the age of Hunyadis and Jagellos there were understand not only them, but also the members of the highest aristocratical families, who were guarantied for the keeping of the Sankt Pölten’s armistice as „natural counts” (barones Naturles) of the country in 1487. After Matthias king there was written more definitely their separated situation of the members of count Bakk family as high / head orders against the king by the 25. law of 1495., furthermore there were regulated the high aristocratics as order. In this there was obliged the king: before calling in the Parliament he had to call in one the members of count Bakk family, the prelates and aristocratics to discuss the objects of the Parliament together by the senior civil servants and counsellors. By the law of 22. 1498. the barons were authorized to keep own banderium, they were lined up as barons and as separated order before the delegates of the other members of the Upper House (proceres) and the county’s nobles delegates in the Parliament of the year 1500.

There was written in the law of 10. 1500.: The prelates and barons had right to the place in the king’s council. This right was forced by the law 39. 1518. in which there were listed and said the names of members of smaller council: the right of the other counsellors remained in good state of preservation. At the end of the 15. century there were also the laws about the influence on the country’s things of the barons. As by all of the right’s developing, in this case the facts came before the laws. This right of barons - in this age they were also named consiliariuses - were acknowledged by everybody and included in our constitution at the beginning of the 16. century. Taking part in High Court of Kings, namely the King’s Council by the Bakk family was not only the family’s taking, it was the taking also of the king, where by the Bakk family together with other barons / counts (baro naturales) were permitted the enforcement of those king’s orders, which were suits them too. Although the participion right of Bakk family in the King’s Council wasn’t regulated yet, but the Bakk family took care of that, their sons took part in the Coucil also in their life. By this the taking part in the Council there was maden to be traditional. In this age the King’s Council was power of legislature. that’s why in the next age when there were collected the laws, the resolutions of the king’s council were maden into this collection. At that time the different ligas of barons wanted reserve this right of the king’s council for themseves. Among these efforts there were the most interesting of the Dragon’s order’s. Korbávia’s Bak János from the Bakk family - he was the table-master of Zsigmond’s king - was the founding member of Dragon order founded in 1408. By the form of the Dragon order it wasn’t league, but by its found-rules and by its mentality it was league. There were written as fundamental rules: The king had to consult the things of country together with five members of the order. By this effect as showing of the direction there was developing the separated institute, so called the smaller king’s council to preserve their influence on, that’s why they were continually stayed in the king’s yard. The king’s council in a wider sence was the directing, and the smaller king’s council was the executive. The wider sence was the lawgiver’s king’s council, the smaller was the office-holder’s king’s council. This was said by the 7. law of the 1446., there had to be elected into the smaller council next to the governor: palatine of Hungary, judge of country, two prelates, two barons and next to them there had to be also elected six nobles.

See at Hunyadi János about all of these : The permanent members of government’s council were two persons Berend’s Bak János and Orbova’s László. In the council there were had bigger power by Bakk family, together with aristocratics and barons as Parliament had, furthermore the calling in of Parliament was dependent on them. In that case if by the Parliament called in there was decided that which wasn’t good for them that the king’s sanction was vetod by them. In the 15. century there wasn’t maden different between the Council’s and Parliament’s decisions. There wasn’t maden different between the king’s orders and the king’s Council’s decisions. Essentially there weren’t differents between the decisions of Parliament - those arrangements we could name the king’s orders - and the Council’s decisions. The validity of two of them was depended on consent of councillors called barons. That’s why that decisions which were thorugh only the king’s Council as I. law 1404., the 1405. decretum minus of 4. law. 1411. That’s why there were often collected also taxes by found of decretum maden in this form. From 1439. the king together of members of Bakk family and with some of aristicrats there were imposed a tax on. By Matthis king there was Bakk family also initiated in the work of collecting of tax: Berend’s Bak Boldizsár dictator of Trencsény in 1484. In 1439. by members of Bakk family together the aristocrats and prelates united in the king’s Council there was contracted for that: the king had to impose the same tax on the people of the other countries against the Turkishes war. This was the system of the collection of taxes under the ruling of Matthias king.

In the Middle Ages the members of Bakk family were born legislators as aristocrats at that time, when the nobles went personally in the Parliament. But this right of them were evidently, when the separated discussion of aristocrats there were become privilege and were written by the law, morever at that time, when the sending of delegates went onto the place of personal appearance of nobles. Members of Bakk family studied in European Universities of Middle Ages: Paris’s Sorbon University, furthermore Bologna’s University, Vienna’s University and Krakkow’s University. After the Middle Ages they worked in Hungarian Kingdom, so in Secelland they worked as aristocratic jurist dinasty in the interest of Hungarian Nation.

Primor Szentkatolna’s Bakk István PhS