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István Esterházy (1572–1596)
István Esterházy de Galánta (4 March 1572 – 26 October 1596) was a Hungarian nobleman and soldier, son of Vice-ispán (Viscount; ''vicecomes'') of Pozsony County Ferenc Esterházy. One of his brothers was Nikolaus, Count Esterházy, who served as Palatine of Hungary. István participated, along with his father, in the 1596 campaign against the Ottoman Empire. They served in the army under commander Count Miklós Pálffy (1552–1600). István Esterházy was killed in the Battle of Keresztes The Battle of Keresztes (also known as the Battle of Mezőkeresztes) () took place on 24–26 October 1596. It was fought between a combined Habsburg monarchy, Habsburg-Principality of Transylvania (1571–1711), Transylvanian force and the Ot ... on 26 October 1596. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Esterhazy, Istvan 1572 births 1596 deaths Hungarian soldiers Istvan 16th-century Hungarian nobility Hungarian military personnel killed in action ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Esterházy
A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.Schoenauer, Norbert (2000). ''6,000 Years of Housing'' (rev. ed.) (New York: W.W. Norton & Company). Houses use a range of different roofing systems to keep precipitation such as rain from getting into the dwelling space. Houses generally have doors or locks to secure the dwelling space and protect its inhabitants and contents from burglars or other trespassers. Most conventional modern houses in Western cultures will contain one or more bedrooms and bathrooms, a kitchen or cooking area, and a living room. A house may have a separate dining room, or the eating area may be integrated into the kitchen or another room. Some large houses in North America have a recreation room. In traditional agriculture-oriented soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferenc Esterházy (1533–1604)
Ferenc Esterházy de Galántha (; 1533–1604) was a Hungarian noble, who served as Ispán, Vice-ispán (Viscount; ''vicecomes'') of Pozsony County since 1579. He was the ancestor of the wealthy and prestigious House of Esterházy. His parents were Benedek Eszterhas, Benedek Zerhas de Zerhashaz (or Eszterhas), from the kindred of Salamon, and Ilona Bessenyei de Galántha. He was the first from his family who used the title of "Galántha" (''galánthai'') when he inherited the lordship of Galanta, Galánta (today: ''Galanta, Slovakia'') from his mother. Following his father's death in 1553, he built a Renaissance architecture, Renaissance-style mansion in 1600. Another, Gothic Revival architecture, Neo-Gothic castle situated in the town built by two of his sons, Dániel Esterházy (1585–1654), Dániel and Pál Esterházy (1587–1645), Pál in 1633. Ferenc participated in the Long War (Ottoman wars), 1596 campaign against the Ottoman Empire. He served in the army under commander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsófia Illésházy
Zsófia Katalin Illésházy de Illésháza (1547–1599) was a Hungarian noblewoman, the sixth and youngest child of Tamás Illésházy and his second wife, Zsófia Földes. Her father functioned as Vice-ispán (Viscount; ''vicecomes'') of Pozsony County. Her elder brother was Baron István Illésházy, who served as Palatine of Hungary between 1608 and 1609. Family In 1566, she married Ferenc Esterházy de Galántha (1533–1604), the first member of the prestigious House of Esterházy. They had the following children: * Magdolna (26 January 1567 – 1 September 1616), married to László Kubinyi de Felsőkubin et Nagyolaszi (d. 1598) * Ferenc I (b. 18 July 1568), died young * Tamás (8 May 1570 – 1615 or 1616) * István (4 March 1572 – 26 October 1596), died in the Battle of Keresztes * János (b. 1574), died young * Ferenc II (b. 1576), died young * Farkas (1577 – 25 August 1643) * Zsófia (29 October 1578 – 7 May 1620), married to Márton Révay de Riva et Treboszt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mezőkeresztes
Mezőkeresztes is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary in the continent of Europe near Mezőkövesd and Eger. Location south from county seat Miskolc. Can be reached by car on highway M3. The train station ''Mezőkeresztes–Mezőnyárád'' is away from the town itself, towards Mezőnyárád. History The area around it has been inhabited since the Migration period, Great Migration. In the 14th century it belonged to the Castle of Diósgyőr, Diósgyőr estate. King Ladislaus the Posthumous, Ladislaus V granted market town status to Mezőkeresztes. In 1596, there was a great Battle of Keresztes, Battle of Mezőkeresztes, where Mehmed III, a sultan of the Ottoman Empire defeated the Habsburg and Transylvanian forces. During the battle the Sultan had to be dissuaded from fleeing the field halfway through the battle. After the end of the Ottoman era, the town prospered but in the 19th century it lost its importance and became a village. In 1950, oil resource ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Hungary (1538–1867)
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946 and was a key part of the Habsburg monarchy from 1526-1918. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen I at Esztergom around the year 1000;Kristó Gyula – Barta János – Gergely Jenő: Magyarország története előidőktől 2000-ig (History of Hungary from the prehistory to 2000), Pannonica Kiadó, Budapest, 2002, , pp. 37, 113, 678 ("Magyarország a 12. század második felére jelentős európai tényezővé, középhatalommá vált."/"By the 12th century Hungary became an important European factor, became a middle power.", "A Nyugat részévé vált Magyarország.../Hungary became part of the West"), pp. 616–644 his family (the Árpád dynasty) led the monarchy for 300 years. By the 12th century, the kingdom became a European power. Due to the Ottoman occupation of the central and southern t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ispán
The ispánRady 2000, p. 19.''Stephen Werbőczy: The Customary Law of the Renowned Kingdom of Hungary in Three Parts (1517)'', p. 450. or countEngel 2001, p. 40.Curta 2006, p. 355. (, , and ),Kirschbaum 2007, p. 315. deriving from title of župan, was the leader of a castle district (a fortress and the royal lands attached to it) in the Kingdom of Hungary from the early 11th century. Most of them were also heads of the basic administrative units of the kingdom, called County (Kingdom of Hungary), counties, and from the 13th century the latter function became dominant. The ''ispáns'' were appointed and dismissed by either the king of Hungary, monarchs or a high-ranking royal official responsible for the administration of a larger territorial unit within the kingdom. They fulfilled administrative, judicial and military functions in one or more counties. Heads of counties were often represented locally by their deputies, the vice-ispánsRady 2000, p. 41. (,Nemes 1989, p. 21. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pozsony County
Pozsony county was an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now mostly part of Slovakia, while a small area belongs to Hungary. In 1969, the three villages that remained in Hungary were combined to form Dunasziget. Its name changed along with that of the city of Pressburg (, today's Bratislava). Its names around 1900 were ''Pozsony vármegye'' in Hungarian language, Hungarian, ''Prešpurská župa'' in Slovak language, Slovak and ''Preßburger Gespanschaft'' in German. Geography The county shared borders with the Austrian land of Lower Austria and the Hungarian counties Nyitra county, Nyitra, Komárom county, Komárom, Győr (county), Győr and Moson. It was situated between the river Morava (river), Morava in the west, the river Danube in the south, and the river Váh () in the east. The southern part of the Little Carpathians divided the county into two. It also covered most of the island known today as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolaus, Count Esterházy
Baron, later Count Nikolaus Esterházy de Galántha () ( Galanta, 8 April 1583 Großhöflein, 11 September 1645) was the founder of the West-Hungarian noble House of Esterházy which became one of the grandest and most influential aristocratic families of the Kingdom of Hungary. Life Nikolaus's parents were Protestants, and he himself followed them at first, but he subsequently became a Catholic and, along with Cardinal Pázmány, his most serious rival at court, became a pillar of Catholicism, both religiously and politically. At court, he opposed the two great Protestant champions of the period, Gabriel Bethlen and George I Rákóczi. Matthias II made him a baron (1613), count of Bereg (1617), and lord-lieutenant () of the county of Zólyom and (1618). His political ideal was the consolidation of the House of Habsburg as a means towards freeing Hungary from domination by the Ottoman Empire, and the Habsburg noted him because of his zeal to that end. He himself, on one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palatine Of Hungary
The Palatine of Hungary ( or , , ) was the highest-ranking office in the Kingdom of Hungary from the beginning of the 11th century to 1848. Initially, Palatines were representatives of the monarchs, later (from 1723) the vice-regent (viceroy). In the early centuries of the kingdom, they were appointed by the king, and later (from 1608) were elected by the Diet of the Kingdom of Hungary. A Palatine's jurisdiction included only Hungary proper, in the Kingdom of Croatia until 1918 the ban held similar function as the highest office in the Kingdom (after the king himself), monarch's representative, commander of the royal army and viceroy (after the union of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia with Hungary in 1102). Title The earliest recorded Medieval Latin form of the title was ''comes palatii'' ("count of the palace"); it was preserved in the deed of foundation of the Tihany Abbey, issued in 1055. A new variant ''(comes palatinus)'' came into use in the second half of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long War (Ottoman Wars)
The Long Turkish War (, ), Long War (; , ), or Thirteen Years' War was an indecisive land war between the Holy Roman Empire (primarily the Habsburg monarchy) and the Ottoman Empire, primarily over the principalities of Wallachia, Transylvania, and Moldavia. It was waged from 1593 to 1606, but in Europe, it is sometimes called the Fifteen Years' War (), reckoning from the 1591–1592 Turkish campaign that captured Bihać in the Kingdom of Croatia. In Turkey, it is called the Ottoman–Austrian War of 1593–1606 (). In the series of Ottoman wars in Europe, it was the major test of force in the time period between the Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573) and the Cretan War (1645–1669). The next of the major Ottoman–Habsburg wars was that of 1663–1664. Though the conflict featured a large number of costly battles and sieges, it produced little gain for either side. Overview The major participants of the war were the Habsburg monarchy, the Principality of Transylvania, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Keresztes
The Battle of Keresztes (also known as the Battle of Mezőkeresztes) () took place on 24–26 October 1596. It was fought between a combined Habsburg monarchy, Habsburg-Principality of Transylvania (1571–1711), Transylvanian force and the Ottoman Empire near the village of Mezőkeresztes () in modern-day northern Hungary. The Ottomans routed the Habsburg-led army but due to their own losses were unable to Pyrrhic victory, exploit their victory. Background On 23 June 1596, the Ottoman army marched from Istanbul, Constantinopole. Commanded by Sultan Mehmed III, the army marched through Edirne, Filibe (now known as Plovdiv), Sofia, and Niš to arrive at Belgrade on 9 August. On 20 August, the army crossed the Sava, River Sava by bridge and entered the Archduchy of Austria, Austrian territory of Siren. A war council was called at Slankamen Castle, and it was decided that they would begin a Siege of Eger (1596), siege on the Hungarian fort of Eger (Erlau). The fort controlled the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1572 Births
Year 1572 ( MDLXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 16 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is tried for treason, for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. He is executed on June 2. * February 13 – Elizabeth I of England issues a proclamation which revokes all commissions, on account of the frauds which they had fostered. * February 19 – Harrow School is founded, with a royal charter from Queen Elizabeth I of England. * February 28 – In what is now the Rajasthan state in India, Maharana Pratap is crowned as the new Rana of Mewar at the Kingdom's capital at Udaipur after the death of his father, Udai Singh II. * March 2 – Mem de Sá, the Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil, dies after 14 years in office. He is succeeded by Lourenço da Veiga. * March 11 – Pope Pius V issues the papal bull ''Supremi omnipotentis Dei'', granting an indulge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
