Barna Attila: Lőcsei Fehér Asszony. Legenda és valóság - Győri Tanulmányok Füzetek. Tudományos Közlemények 16/2014 (Győr, 2014)
Lőcse’s White Lady and her lawsuit of high treason (Summary)
LŐCSE'S WHITE LADY AND HER LAWSUIT OF HIGH TREASON (Summary) Birth of a legend The symbolic female figure of the Rákóczi-era, Mrs. János Korponay, Julianna Géczy's legend and martyrdom merged with the figure of Loose’s white woman, created by the novelist, Mór Jókai in 1884. Jókai himself also mentions that he took the heroine's figure from an existing document, mainly from sources he got from his friend, Kálmán Thay historian and he rethought it with his novelist fantasy. The work defines the general public even today and with its strong emotional orientation and unsettling indicators it had effect even on the scientific thinking of the following decades. The general public still believes that: Julianna Géczy is Lőcse's betrayer who let the Austrian emperor’s troops into the town. She was the one who let the enemy in through a hidden channel gate with a key stolen from under her lover's pillow. "People believe this story to be a complete fiction, until, just like infidel Thomas, they put they finger into every hole." — writes Jókai. Hence, Mrs. Korponay Julianna Géczy is a real person who was born in Osgyán (today: Ozd’any, Slovakia) in the Hungarian Kingdom's part of Upper Hungary around 1860 as the daughter of Zsigmond Géczy — a Hungarian rebel colonel at the time of the Imre Thököly rebellion — and Judit Bakos. She married János Korponay, noble of Hont county in 1700. She gave birth to a boy, however, Prince Ferenc Rákóczi's anti-Austrian flag breakdown turned their family life upside down. Short after the start of the revolution, his father became a Hungarian “kuruc” rebel (name of Hungarian rebels in the 17th and 18th centuries) in September 1703. However, her husband, being part of the other political party, protected the casde of Csábrág (today: Cabrad', Slovakia) which was entrusted to him, until the February of next year (against besieger troops lead by his father-inlaw) and only pledged allegiance reluctandy to Rákóczi after that. We can note that the armed conflict had only begun, Julianna Géczy got caught in the cross fire, sometimes even meaning it word by word, as in spite
