Count Francis Rhédey de Kis-Rhéde (''c''. 1610 – 13 May 1667) was a Hungarian noble, who reigned as

Prince of Transylvania The Prince of Transylvania ( hu, erdélyi fejedelem, german: Fürst von Siebenbürgen, la, princeps Transsylvaniae, ro, principele TransilvanieiFallenbüchl 1988, p. 77.) was the head of state of the Principality of Transylvania from the last d ...

between November 1657 and January 1658.

Biography

He was born as the son of Count Francis Rhédey de Kis-Rhéde (1660-1621) and his wife, Katalin Karolyi (1588-1635), widow of István Bánffy de Losonc and future wife of Stefan Bethlen de Iktár, Prince of Transilvania. As a high-ranking nobleman he served in the Transylvanian army for several years as deputy commander in the service of Prince

George II Rákóczi en, George II Rákóczi, house=Rákóczi, father=, mother= Zsuzsanna Lorántffy, religion=CalvinismGeorge II Rákóczi (30 January 1621 – 7 June 1660), was a Hungarian nobleman, Prince of Transylvania (1648-1660), the eldest son of George I ...

. Francisco Rhédey was elected Prince of Transylvania for a brief time while George Rákóczi was on a military campaign in Poland. Very upset because Rákóczi had not requested authorization from the sultan to start the military campaign, the Grand Vizier

Köprülü Mehmed Pasha Köprülü Mehmed Pasha ( ota, كپرولی محمد پاشا, tr, Köprülü Mehmet Paşa; or ''Qyprilliu'', also called ''Mehmed Pashá Rojniku''; 1575, Roshnik,– 31 October 1661, Edirne) was the founder of the Köprülü political dynas ...

, forced the Grand Assembly to elect Francis Rhédey prince of Transylvania instead of Rákóczi. Soon Rhédey was officially elected as Transylvanian Prince on 2 November 1657, but on 9 January 1658 he resigned in favor of George Rákóczi II, who had returned to Transylvania. Rhédey later was a member of the Great Council during the government of Prince

Michael I Apafi Michael Apafi ( hu, Apafi Mihály; 3 November 1632 – 15 April 1690) was Prince of Transylvania from 1661 to his death. Background The Principality of Transylvania emerged after the disintegration of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary in the sec ...

. He died on 13 May 1667.

Personal life

He was married to Druzsiána Bethlen de Iktár, daughter of his stepfather, Prince Stefan by his first wife, Katalin Csáki de Mihály. They had one son, Count László Rhédey de Kis-Rhéde (1636-1663).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rhedey, Francis 1610 births 1667 deaths Year of birth uncertain Francis Monarchs of Transylvania People from Oradea 17th-century Hungarian people