GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
Maria Theresia, Princess Batthyány-Strattmann, née Countess Coreth
OUR HISTORY. OUR VALUES. CARRIED FORWARD.
WORN, TREASURED, PASSED ON
OUR STORY
HERITAGE
GRANDMOTHER
Antonia, Princess Batthyány-Strattmann, née Princess Windisch-Graetz
FOUNDER
Countess Katalin Batthyány
Antique jewellery is deeply personal to us. Each piece carries a memory, a story, a person who once wore it. We believe this matters for everyone, not only families with centuries of history behind them: a piece passed down through a family is never simply an object. It carries the weight of who wore it before you, and the belonging that comes with keeping something within a family.
“One of my fondest childhood memories is going through my mother’s jewellery box and listening to the story behind each piece: who it belonged to, what the occasion was, the materials and gemstones, how old each one was. I would try them on, wearing a piece of my ancestors’ memory, imagining how they must have felt wearing them.”
PATH TO HOUSE OF BATTHYÁNY
A CAREER IN JEWELLERY
From the jewellery houses of London to a gallery of our own.
HOUSE OF BATTHYÁNY
Founder and Curator
2026
A gallery where antique jewellery, treasured for centuries, awaits its next chapter.
MAYFAIR
Jewellery & Watches Trade
LONDON
First-hand experience of how pieces are bought, sold and authenticated.
SOTHEBY’S INSTITUTE OF ART
LONDON
MA in Art Business
Formal training in provenance, valuation and the market.
CHRISTIE'S
LONDON
Jewellery Department
Two years in a leading fine jewellery house, learning to read a piece the way a historian reads a document.
CHRISTIE'S
LONDON
Jewellery Department
Two years in a leading fine jewellery house, learning to read a piece the way a historian reads a document.
SOTHEBY'S INSTITUTE OF ART
LONDON
MA in Art Business
Formal training in provenance, valuation and the market.
MAYFAIR
LONDON
Jewellery & Watches Trade
First-hand experience of how pieces are bought, sold and authenticated.
HOUSE OF BATTHYÁNY
2026
Founder and Curator
A gallery where antique jewellery, treasured for centuries, awaits its next chapter.
THE FAMILY
ALMOST A THOUSAND YEARS.
Our roots reach back almost a thousand years, but our name begins with Katalin Batthyány. She married Miklós of Kővágóörs, and in 1398 King Sigismund gave their son György the Batthyány estate. From that day the family carried its name. In 1500 King Vladislaus II granted us our coat of arms.
Later, our family rose to the rank of counts and princes. Among its members were soldiers, statesmen, saints and collectors, including Hungary's first prime minister, Count Lajos Batthyány, and the beatified doctor of the poor, Prince László Batthyány-Strattmann.
A family like this leaves things behind: books, letters, portraits and jewels. We believe that every one of them carries a story, and that these stories are worth passing on. Some of them we tell in our Journal.
The family motto, Fidelitate et Fortitudine, meaning “with loyalty and bravery”, serves as a moral standard and guiding principle for us.
The crest carries the family’s two main colours: dark blue and a golden yellow. At the top, a pelican sits in her nest with her three young, feeding them with her own blood, a traditional symbol of selflessness and loyalty. Lower on the shield, a lion stands before a cave, holding a sword in its mouth, marking the family’s defence of the nation and its reigning monarch. King Vladislaus II gifted this coat of arms to Boldizsár I Batthyány on the 12th of December, 1500.
THE CERTIFICATE
EVERY PIECE COMES WITH ONE.
Each piece leaves us with a handwritten certificate, sealed with our family crest. It describes the jewel and its period, so that it can be passed on together with its story.