Balassa Bálint szobor - Balassa Bálint szobor

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A stately statue opposite the chapel and at the back the Basilica

The statue at the foot of the castle of Esztergom commemorates the poet who died here.

Statue of Bálint Balassa, Hungarian poet and national hero. Considered the founder of Hungarian lyric poetry, and the first writer in Hungarian language of international significance. He died during the siege of Esztergom by the Turks in 1594.

Well, the slightly overexposed statue of one of my ancestors came from the important originally Franco-Franconian family BALAS de Villa Bala, Vice-Dukes of Transylvania. The Balas family, along with the Arpad and Abba families ... has been the founding family of Hungary since the 10th century. For example, they joined today's eastern Slovakia to Hungary. They built castles (7 castles around Žilina, castles in Castrum Novum, Zvolen, Orava Castle, Blue Stone ... in Veszprém, Transylvania) and founded villages and towns. Valentinus Balas in Hungary known as Balassa and Balassi Bálint was originally the heir of many titles (de Villa Bala, de Arva, de Modrý Kameň, de Zvolen, de Balassa Gyarmat, de Budatin etc ....) as the family owned property throughout Hungary was important fighter. He fought in several important battles in Hungary and Poland. It was here in Esztergom that he ripped off both legs in battle. He studied in Germany, Italy and Jágr. He spoke several languages, including German, Slovak, Latin, Polish, Turkish and Hungarian. He is the author of poetry, but he mainly hires the compositions HYMNUS SECUNDUS in Latin, which later in the 19th century of the national revival of Hungary received a Hungarian text. The hymn has become the anthem of the Balas family for centuries and is still with the Latin text to this day. Valentinus Balas is buried in Slovakia in a village in a church in Hybe.