Liviu, Marta - Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Andrid. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2011)
Date istorice - Történelmi adatok
historical information. Such a family is Zoárdfi of Andrid, descendant of the Hontpázmány kindred. The family was first mentioned in relation with Andrid in the last years of the fourteenth century, and preserved their ownership until the family ceased to exist in the mid-fifteenth century. The daughter of the last male descendant of the family, Margaret, inherited the family possessions from Andrid of the Zoárdfi family, which, according to medieval law, would belong to her husbands family. Following this matrimonial alliance, the Szepessy nobles became owners of one part of Andrid and they took over the name of the village, too: Szepessy of Andrid. Towards the end of the Middle Ages, families began to individualize in the village by names and, in 1592, disappeared the last nobles called “of Andrid”. At the end of the Middle Ages and during the early modern period, Andrid was a prosperous village with a population overcoming the average of the neighboring towns: in 1570, the number of serfs and peasants in the village was around 400-500, while the tax paying nobles were 103. Andrid, therefore became a typical settlement of small nobles, where the property of the most important landowner did not overcome three or even four plots. The high number of residents was due primarily because of the benefits of the swamp area, which provided resources for feeding livestock in all seasons, raw materials for constructions and additional sources of income. A difficult period in the life of Andrid was represented by the end of the 16th century and the first decade of the next century, when the Ottoman raids became more and more frequent in the surrounding area of the Principality of Transylvania as a result of the lasting conflict of the Fifteen year War between the Ottomans and Habsburgs. The population, robbed by the scattered troops, took refuge probably in the less exposed areas; therefore the number of people in Andrid was reduced to the half: in 1597, 53 families of serfs Biserica ortodoxă din Andrid Az érendrédi ortodox templom The Orthodox church of Andrid 23
