Count Adam II. Batthyány ( hr, Adam Baćan, 3 June 1662 – 26 August 1703) was a Hungarian general and nobleman. He served as ban (

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) of

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from 1693 to 1703.

Career

Adam II. Batthyány was born in 1637, the son of Christoph II Batthyány and his wife Maria-Anna Horváth de Palocsa. He came from Németújvár in the frontier region of Austria and the

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen ...

. The

Batthyány Family The House of Batthyány () is the name of an ancient and distinguished Hungarian Magnate family. Members of this family bear the title Count/Countess ( Graf/Gräfin) Batthyány von Német-Ujvar respectively, while the title of Prince (Fürst) vo ...

were Hungarian aristocrats loyal to the

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who served in the Habsburg military conflicts against the

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. He and his father, a general, took part in the

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. In October 1683 he took part in the conquest of the fortress of Gran (Esztergom) with his hussars. During the siege of Buda, where he fought alongside a young Prince Eugene, Adam II and his 1200 hussars captured 12 galleys part of the Ottoman Fleet with enormous treasures. In recognition of his deeds, he was appointed the owner of a regiment and general and commander-in-chief of the border areas around Kaniza. In 1693 he became the

Ban of Croatia Ban of Croatia ( hr, Hrvatski ban) was the title of local rulers or office holders and after 1102, viceroys of Croatia. From the earliest periods of the Croatian state, some provinces were ruled by bans as a ruler's representative (viceroy) an ...

, Dalmatia and

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. For his outstanding and valuable military service to

Emperor Leopold I Leopold I (Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Franz Felician; hu, I. Lipót; 9 June 1640 – 5 May 1705) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria An ...

, Batthyány was rewarded with the

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Estate in the year 1700. He died at the age of 41 on 26 August 1703.

Family

Adam II married Countess Eleonore Strattmann (1677–1741), the daughter of Imperial Court Chancellor Count Theodor Heinrich von Strattmann, on 25 November 1692. After Theodor's death inb 1693, the Strattmann estates were combined with those of the Batthyány family. Adam and Eleonore had two children: # Ludwig Ernst Batthyány (1696–1765), Hungarian Court Chancellor and

Palatine of Hungary The Palatine of Hungary ( hu, nádor or , german: Landespalatin, la, palatinus regni Hungariae) was the highest-ranking office in the Kingdom of Hungary from the beginning of the 11th century to 1848. Initially, Palatines were repres ...

. Married to Theresia Countess Kinsky von Wchinitz and Tettau. # Karl Josef Batthyány (1697–1772), Field marshal,

and Chief Chamberlain. He took part in the campaign against the Ottoman Empire under Prince Eugene. Empress Maria Theresa elevated him to the rank of prince (imperial title) on 3 January 1764. Married to Maria Anna Barbara von Waldstein, then to Maria Theresa Countess von Strattmann, and finally to Maria Antonia Nemetujvari Countess Batthyány.

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