Comtesse Margit Batthyány (1914 – 1959):de:Margit von Batthyány, lived until the end of World War II on Castle Rechnitz (Burgenland) where she was engaged in breeding horses and maintaining a reconvalescence home for members of the SS.
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The family were first mentioned in documents in 1398 and had their ancestral seat in Güssing in the Austrian region Burgenland since 1522.
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Boldizsár Batthyány (1543 – 1590), baron, well-educated humanist, became Protestant in 1570,protector of the botanist Carolus Clusius
A short time later (1644) Ehrenreich Christoph Königsberg sold the sovereignty and the castle to Count Ádám Batthyány.
After the Batthyány Government formed, it offered him a post as Secretary of War, but he rejected it.
Its present name (Írottkő in Hungarian, Geschriebenstein in German) can be translated as written stone and is assumably derived from border stones with inscriptions between the properties of the Batthyány and Esterházy families.
Prince Alfred of Montenouvo was born at Vienna, Austrian Empire, only son of William Albert, 1st Prince of Montenuovo (1819–1895), (son of Adam Albert, Count of Neipperg and Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria) and his wife, Countess Juliana Batthyány-Strattmann (1827–1871), (daughter of Count János Baptist Batthyány-Strattmann and Countess Marie Esterházy de Galántha).
In 1838 Batthyány donated his entire library including the Rohonc Codex to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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The Batthyány family can trace its roots to the founding of Hungary in 896 AD by Árpád to one of seven princes called Urs.
The name of well-known patterns refer to the first customers (Queen Victoria, Esterházy, Batthyány, Rothschild, Apponyi).
Sándór Lajos Erdödy (b. 1802, d. 1881)joined the Batthyany and Kossuth cabinet but withdrew due to their extremist views.
In 1740, at the insistence of Counts Esterházy, Batthyány, and Draskovits, the city granted permission to all Jews of the counties of Sopron and Eisenstadt to enter the city.
Some early parks include the la Alameda de Hércules, in Seville, a promenaded public mall, urban garden and park built in 1574, within the historic center of Seville; the City Park, in Budapest, Hungary, which was property of the Batthyány family and was later made public.