[The female ancestor of the Thökölys: Baroness Susanne Dóczy of Nagylucse (1565–1596) and her family] Antiqua et non obscura familia. In: KÓNYA, P. (ed.): Imrich Thököly – Jeho život, povstanie a doba / Imre Thököly – His life, uprising and age. Prešov, 2023. 58–92. (original) (raw)

2023, GYULAI, Éva: Antiqua et non obscura familia – A Thökölyek ősanyja: nagylucsei Dóczy Zsuzsanna bárónő (1565–1596) és családja. In: KÓNYA, Peter (ed.): Imrich Thököly – Jeho život, povstanie a doba / Thököly Imre – Élete, felkelése és kora. Prešov, 2023. 58–92.

Great-grandmother of the Thökölys: Baroness Susanne Dóczy of Nagylucse (Veľká Lúča) We know that Sebastián Thököly, barely ten years after his ennoblement, married a very young and natural-born baroness, Zuzana Dóczy, who was born in the manor house in Žarnovice, together with both brothers, and where her half-siblings Anna and Barbora Szárkándy also lived. The funeral sermon of the preacher Sebastian Lahm from Kežmarok, published in 1600 in Heidelberg, tells a lot about the life of Zuzana Dóczy. The booklet also contains a strange poem, paraphrasing a letter written by Zuzana Dóczy on her deathbed to her distant husband, which she did not manage to finish due to the ongoing childbirth. Sebastian Lahm dedicated the sermon to Stefan Thököly, then studying abroad. During childbirth, Zuzana Dóczy was visited by the Jäger captain Pavel Nyáry and only after his departure she gave birth to a live child. However, she died during the postpartum period, three weeks after giving birth, on June 20 or 22, 1596. Only four of her children survived to adulthood. Zuzana Dóczy died at the age of 31. Her husband had a monumental marble tomb made for her in then Evangelical church in Kežmarok, which was later converted into a side altar after the catholicisation of the church. The tombstone inscription also lists the names of her deceased and living children and immortalises Sebastian Thököly as the lord of Kežmarok. Other verses heroically describe the joint family coat of arms of the Thököly and Dóczy families. Keywords: Zuzana Dóczy, Thököly family, Kežmarok, nobility, evangelicals.