Memorial plaque of the Draskóczy family

The Draskóczy family is one of the oldest families in Turóc County. The founding ancestor of the family was Drask, son of Dvor. ; Dvor's other son was called Mikola. ; Drask served as a castle serf under King Béla IV. In recognition of his valor during the Tatar invasion (in 1241 in the Battle of Muh), in 1242 he was granted nobility by Béla IV, and with it a land estate near Turócszentmárton. ; This fact is also attested by the "Turóci Regestrum" compiled in 1931. The original land estate was later - in 1266 - expanded by the king with another donation. The land estate also included villages, such as Draskóc and Dolina. ; Hence the full noble name of the family, Draskóczi and Dolinai Draskóczy ; The later divisions of the family made it necessary to distinguish the individual branches, so the seven branches took on seven epithets. Krasznyec or Krasznai ?, Czeper, Milkó, Ilgó, Dianisz, Ivánka and Bohunka. Of Drask's four sons, the Draskóczy family originates from István (also a soldier), László died early, András fell in the Battle of Muhi, and Lauren (homo regius, i.e. a royal man and soldier) accompanied Béla IV to Dalmatia after the loss of the Battle of Muhi and there, through his descendants, founded the Draskovich family of Counts of Trakostyan. ; The smaller settlements of the estate in the vicinity of Turócszentmárton were later merged and in 1348 it was renamed from Drask to Draskfalva and then Draskóc. In the early 1900s, the villages of Draskóc and Dolina were merged and the merged village was named Draskócvölgye. Currently Drazkovce. ; The family lived in Draskóc until the 17th century. The first major separation occurred after this, and when Sámuel Draskóczy († 1836) mortgaged the family estate in the early 1800s, the family dispersed to the southeast. According to official records, in 1910 there were still 15 Hungarian families living in Draskóc, today, as far as I know, none. Most of the descendants live in Hungary, but many live in Slovakia, Carpathian Ukraine, Germany, Switzerland, the USA, England... ; In the 18th. 19th. centuries, Sámuel Draskóczy and his descendants lived here and served the then Gömör County for 6 generations. They were leading participants in political, social, and church life and the War of Independence of 1848. The people of Harkács and Sánkfalva preserve their memory.