Most specialists agree that the family died out in the Middle Ages.[2] Zoltán W. Vityi says that the noble Szilágyis of Horogszeg who lived in
Nyírgelse and
Nyírmihálydi (in
Szabolcs County in Hungary) in the 1930s were descended from the medieval noble family.[2]
^(Hungarian) Engel, Pál (1996). Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1301–1457, I. ("Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1301–1457, Volume I"). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. p. 29. Budapest.
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