House of Goëtzën

The House of Götzö (Portuguese: Casa de Götzö, Hungarian: Götzö-ház, German: Haus Goëtzën) is a noble family, macronationally connected to the Hungarian nobility and micronationally connected to the Kingdom of Ruthenia, Karnia-Ruthenia and the Occidian Empire. An Hungarian family from Biharkeresztes, the family immigrated to Brazil following the defeat of Austria-Hungary on World War I. The family settled in São Paulo were they have remained to this day. The last member of the family is the Oscar I, son of the last living member of the family in female line, the Archduchess Denise of Karnia-Ruthenia. The last member of male line, Wladimir von Goëtzën, older brother of Archduchess Denise, died without issue in 1990's.

History
The House of Götzö officially states since the late XIX century they descended from the line of Attila, King and chieftain of the Hunnic Empire and that have a close connection to the House of Árpád. In fact, the first verified ancestor of the house is shared with the Arpads, Ügyek, Chieftain of Scythia. In any case, studying the other relations of the family, other interesting characters appears, as Rudolf of Rheinfelden, the first anti-king in the history of the Holy Roman Empire, Manuel Erotikos Komnenos, ancestor of the Komnenos dynasty, Rurik, Prince of Ladoga and Novgorod and founder of the House of Rurik and Chościsko, Duke of the Polans and founder of the House of Piast. Despite the royal connections, the family always belonged to lower nobility, never possessing any other title higher then count and always being attached to the Hungarian Crown, serving from Stephen I of Hungary to Charles IV of Hungary - first and last Kings of Hungary. This notable achievement was highlighted with two of the ancestors of the house serving as Palatine of Hungary from 1275 to 1283, the highest-ranking office in the Kingdom of Hungary, representatives of the monarchs. Thier power eventually faded, but supported the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and the Habsburgs through the First World War and after the war, during the Easter Crisis and the March on Budapest. After the failure of the attempts to restore the Habsburgs, the family left Hungary in 1921 and never returned. They settled in São Paulo, Brazil. In November 2014, In January 2016, the King of Ruthenia ordered the creation of a new coat of arms, that uses elements of the original, but also other elements to strengthen their ties with their Hungarian origins. Many of the elements also represent connection with the House of Árpád, since genealogical research point the Árpáds as ancestors of the ruling house of Karnia-Ruthenia, through the marriage of Mary of Hungary, daughter of Ladislaus I of Hungary, with Prince Iaroslav of Volhinia. After the Karno-Ruthenian Compromise of 2016, the cadet branch of the House of Götzö, the House of Götzö-Thomaz-Rocha acquired imperial rank, and on 16 July 2016, had their titles established by Imperial and Royal Decree n. 34/2016, and from that moment on "His Imperial and Royal Highness, Archduke of Karnia and Prince of Ruthenia", also adding the title of "Prince of Hohenstenberg".