From 1324 the village belonged to the Šimoni family — Simonyi in Hungarian — who either took their name from it or gave it theirs; that is usually how nobles and villages worked. Papal tithe registers of 1332 to 1337 record a parish church here dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Those registers are among the most useful documents historians have for medieval Slovakia: to tax the clergy properly, Rome had every parish written down, and so we know which villages already had a church and which did not.Od roku 1324 patrila dedina rodine Šimoniovcov — po maďarsky Simonyi — ktorá si od nej vzala meno, alebo jej svoje dala; tak to medzi šľachtou a dedinami zvyčajne chodilo. Pápežské desiatkové registre z rokov 1332 až 1337 tu uvádzajú farský kostol zasvätený Panne Márii. Práve tieto registre patria k najužitočnejším prameňom pre stredoveké Slovensko: aby Rím mohol riadne zdaniť kňazov, dal spísať každú faru — a tak dnes vieme, ktoré dediny už kostol mali a ktoré nie.
