There are several Szekler legends about the family, one of them dating back to ‘Rabonban Zadirham’ who was a warlord and religious leader of the tribes in pagan times.

The Ugron’s are first mentioned in documents around the 13th century; some sources suggest that they are related to the first Hungarian royal house, but this has not been definitely confirmed. The first uninterrupted documentation of the family begins with László Ugron who lived in the early 14th  century.

Pál Ugron – ‘dictus magnus’ - living in the early 17th century, was the tutor of Gábor Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania, who created “the golden age of Transylvania” during his rule by building a strong and independent state which protected the borders of Europe from the Ottoman Empire.

Júlia Ugron de Ábranfalva was married to Count Zsigmond Mikes, living at the Mikes Estate in Zabola. They were the grandparents of Count Imre Mikó, one of the most respected politicians in Transylvania.

The members of the Ugron family played an important role through the centuries in  Transylvanian and later in Hungarian history and public life, as landlords, soldiers, politicians, ambassadors etc.

Due to the Romanian Agrarian Reform in 1920 and later the communist dictatorship, all the properties of the family were confiscated in Transylvania and in Hungary as well. After World War II some members of the family had to flee from Transylvania, while others were sent to prison camps in the Soviet Union or were imprisoned as political enemies of the communist regime in Hungary.