Stephen III Báthory ( hu, Báthory István) (died 11 November 1444,
Varna) was a Hungarian nobleman and commander. His most prestigious position was
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 ...
.
Stephen belonged to the
Ecsed branch of the
Báthory family. His parents were John V Báthory and Catherine, daughter of John Zanti. His older brother
Bartholomew I Báthory fell in 1432 fighting against the Hussites. Stephen first appears in 1419 as ''dapiferorum regalium magister'' (master of the royal stewards), and later as a
judge royal
The judge royal, also justiciar,Rady 2000, p. 49. chief justiceSegeÅ¡ 2002, p. 202. or Lord Chief JusticeFallenbüchl 1988, p. 145. (german: Oberster Landesrichter,Fallenbüchl 1988, p. 72. hu, országbÃró,Zsoldos 2011, p. 26. sk, krajinskà ...
.
In 1435 he was appointed Palatine of Hungary by King
Sigismund Sigismund (variants: Sigmund, Siegmund) is a German proper name, meaning "protection through victory", from Old High German ''sigu'' "victory" + ''munt'' "hand, protection". Tacitus latinises it '' Segimundus''. There appears to be an older form of ...
. Sigismund's short-lived successor, King
Albert of Habsburg awarded him with the castle Bujak.
In 1444 he was the flag-bearer of
Władysław, King of Poland and Hungary, in the
Battle of Varna
The Battle of Varna took place on 10 November 1444 near Varna in eastern Bulgaria. The Ottoman Army under Sultan Murad II (who did not actually rule the sultanate at the time) defeated the Hungarian– Polish and Wallachian armies commanded ...
, in which he fell alongside his King.
Stephen was married twice:
#Ursula, daughter of George de Kis Tapolcsa
#Barbara, widowed Csapy
After his death, his second wife Barbara went to court against Christine, the widow of Stephen's younger brother
Thomas
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People
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* Thomas the A ...
, with which she disputed a mill's revenue.
Stephen fathered nine children:
*Catherine, who married George of Marczal
*
Ladislaus (d. 1474), supreme count of the counties
Szatmár and
Szarand
*
Andrew III Báthory (d. 1495), who was confirmed in his possession of Bujak. He is the only one among Stephen's son to produce male issue.
*
Stephen V Báthory
Stephen Báthory of Ecsed ( hu, Báthory István, ; ro, Ștefan Báthory; 1430–1493) was a Hungarian commander, 'dapiferorum regalium magister' (1458–?), judge royal (1471–1493) and voivode of Transylvania (1479–1493). ...
(d. 1493), served first as royal judge, excelled as a military commander and was made
Voivod of Transylvania, the first of a long line of Báthory rulers of that country.
*Peter Báthory
*
Thomas II Báthory, whose daughter married into the Zanoler family
*
Paul I Báthory, surnamed ''the Mute''
*
Nicolaus III Báthory (d. 1506) was bishop first of
Syrmia and after 1474 of
Vác
Vác (; german: Waitzen; sk, Vacov; yi, ווייצען) is a town in Pest county in Hungary with approximately 35,000 inhabitants. The archaic spelling of the name is ''Vácz''.
Location
Vác is located north of Budapest on the eastern bank o ...
,
renaissance
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The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD ...
scholar and advisor to King
Matthias Corvinus
Matthias Corvinus, also called Matthias I ( hu, Hunyadi Mátyás, ro, Matia/Matei Corvin, hr, Matija/MatijaÅ¡ Korvin, sk, Matej KorvÃn, cz, Matyáš KorvÃn; ), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490. After conducting several m ...
*Margaretha, who married first Nucgaek Szilággi, and then Paul Banfi.
References
*Moritz Wertner, "
Urgeschlechter in Siebenbürgen. 10. Gutkeled: a) Báthory", in Archiv des Vereins für siebenbürgische Landeskunde. Neue Folge, Bd. 29, Heft 1 (1899), Hermannstadt 1899 – quoted in Michael Farin, ''Heroine des Grauens. Elisabeth Báthory''. Munich: P. Kirchheim, 2003. .
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Judges royal
Hungarian politicians
Hungarian generals
1444 deaths
Year of birth unknown