About: Szécs (genus)

Szécs (Seech or Scheech) was the name of a gens (Latin for "clan"; nemzetség in Hungarian) in the Kingdom of Hungary. The kindred owned lands exclusively in Komárom and Esztergom Counties. As there is no such place name (Szécs) in this region, it is presumable the kindred took its name after their founder who perhaps lived at the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries. The kindred's ancient lands, Hetény (today Chotín in Slovakia), Födémes and Szőlős were still royal estates in the first half of the 13th century. Thus historian Krisztina Tóth considered the ancestor(s) of the Szécs clan belonged to the social status of royal servants who owned possession and was subordinate only to the king. For his service, they elevated to the nobility by the second half of the century.