 István György Tóth historian tells about the letter of Mustafa, Beg of Koppány, for Ádám Batthyány, Chief Captain of Transdanubia, dated June 18, 1637, in which the Turkish chieftain complains that Hungarian nobles from the Balaton Uplands and Zala - the "Keszthelyi", "Devecseri", "Zalavári" etc.families - brutally excised the locals of Somogyegres.In the letter he asks the chief captain, who is also the owner of the village, not to allow these families to launch raids in the region.