The first member of the family was Stephen I, a well-trained diplomat of Charles I of Hungary since the 1300s, who was fluent in French and Italian, despite his commoner or lower noble status.
[2] Accordingly, Stephen's father Paul supported Charles Martel and acknowledged his claim to the Hungarian throne against Andrew III.
According to this theory, Stephen raised in the Neapolitan court as Martel's son Charles surrounded himself with Hungarian tutors, pages and courtiers.
Gaining pardon later, Nicholas and John was able to recover a portion of their property but gradually impoverished and forced to mortgage their inherited estates.
[8] Nicholas I's only daughter Dorothea I married Paul Perényi from the Rihnó branch, who acquired most of the Sáfár estates from his brothers-in-law.