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When the French revolution started in February
of 1848, it also sparked revolutionarly uprisings throughout the Habsburg or Austrian Empire . In June, the Hungarians
began intensifying their demands for self-rule. Emperor Ferdinand V retaliated by cracking down and executing radical
revolutionary leaders. In December 1984, Emperor Ferdinand V abdicated and Francis Joseph became emperor of the Austrain
Empire. With Hungary as the last revolutionary force, Francis Joseph led couinterattacks against the Hungary.
In March 1849, Hungary declared itself an independent Magyar nation-state. In August 1849, Russia's Tsar Nicholas I
sent troops to aid Francis Joseph in the fight against Hungary. By year's end, the revolution was over and Hungary was
firmly under control of the Habsburg monarchy once again. To punish the Hungarians for their bid for independence,
a reign of terror engulfed Hungary.
It is speculated that during the Hungarian
war for independence and the reign of terror that followed, is when the Brenzovics family lost its status as a Hungarian
noble family. Consequenstly they lost their land, their wealth and authority and became farmers and labors. No
documented proof has been discovered, to date, to substatiate this theory one way or the other. The generations
following the war began to migrate from their Uzh [R]/Ung [H] county homeland. You will see that those Brenzovics' who
did immigrate to the U.S., did so with very little money and specified their occupations as farmers and labors upon their
arrival to the U.S. Certainly this is no indication of wealth or a position of authority. The nobility
status of the Brenzovics family endured for approximately 188 years.
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