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Miklós Bercsényi
Count Miklós Bercsényi () ( Hrádok, Kingdom of Hungary, September 1665 – Tekirdağ, 6 November 1725) was a Hungarian military officer and chief general during Rákóczi's War of Independence (1703–1711). Biography He was the son of General Count Miklós Bercsényi (1633–1689) and Countess Maria Elisabeth Katharina von Rechberg and Rothenlöwen (1684–1794). He attended school with the Jesuits, studied philosophy at the University of Nagyszombat, in present-day Slovakia, and completed his training at the court of Palatine of Hungary Paul I, Prince Esterházy. After the liberation of Vienna, he served in the Imperial Army and participated in the wars against the Turks. Captain of Vágsellye in 1685, he distinguished himself at the Siege of Buda (1686), was appointed Captain-in-Chief of Szeged, and was promoted to the rank of colonel. Both he and his father received the title of Count on 14 September 1687, from Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Hungary. Miklós B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis II Rákóczi
Francis II Rákóczi (, ; 27 March 1676 – 8 April 1735) was a Hungarian nobleman and leader of the Rákóczi's War of Independence against the Habsburgs in 1703–1711 as the prince () of the Estates Confederated for Liberty of the Kingdom of Hungary. He was also Prince of Transylvania, an Imperial Prince, and a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Today he is considered a national hero in Hungary. His name is historically also spelled Rákóczy, in , in , in , in (, ), in , in . Although the Hungarian parliament offered Rákóczi the royal crown, he refused it, choosing instead the temporary title of the "Ruling Prince of Hungary". Rákóczi intended to bear this military-sounding title only during the anti-Habsburg war of independence. By refusing the royal crown, he proclaimed to Hungary that it was not his personal ambition that drove the war of liberation against the Habsburg dynasty. Childhood He was the richest landlord in the Kingdom of Hungary and the count (' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
17th-century Hungarian People
The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCI), to December 31, 1700 (MDCC). It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French ''Grand Siècle'' dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, the world's first public company and megacorporation known as the Dutch East India Company, and according to some historians, the General Crisis. From the mid-17th century, European politics were increasingly dominated by the Kingdom of France of Louis XIV, where royal power was solidified domestically in the civil war of the Fronde. The semi-feudal territorial French nobility was weakened and subjugated to the power of an absolute monarchy through the reinvention of the Palace of Versailles from a hunting lodge to a gilded prison, in which a greatly expanded ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Nobility
The Kingdom of Hungary held a Nobility, noble class of individuals, most of whom owned landed property, from the 11th century until the mid-20th century. Initially, a diverse body of people were described as noblemen, but from the late 12th century only high-ranking royal officials were regarded as noble. Most aristocrats claimed ancestry from chieftains of the period Principality of Hungary, preceding the establishment of the kingdom around 1000; others were descended from western European knights who settled in Hungary. The lower-ranking castle warriors also held landed property and served in the royal army. From the 1170s, most privileged laymen called themselves Royal servant (Kingdom of Hungary), royal servants to emphasize their direct connection to the monarchs. The Golden Bull of 1222 established their liberties, especially tax exemption and the limitation of military obligations. From the 1220s, royal servants were associated with the nobility and the high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Generals
Hungarian may refer to: * Hungary, a country in Central Europe * Kingdom of Hungary, state of Hungary, existing between 1000 and 1946 * Hungarians/Magyars, ethnic groups in Hungary * Hungarian algorithm, a polynomial time algorithm for solving the assignment problem * Hungarian language, a Uralic language spoken in Hungary and all neighbouring countries * Hungarian notation, a naming convention in computer programming * Hungarian cuisine Hungarian or Magyar cuisine (Hungarian language, Hungarian: ''Magyar konyha'') is the cuisine characteristic of the nation of Hungary, and its primary ethnic group, the Hungarians, Magyars. Hungarian cuisine has been described as being the P ..., the cuisine of Hungary and the Hungarians See also * * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th-century Rebels
The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the Atlantic Revolutions. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures. The Industrial Revolution began mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. The European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as part of the Age of Sail. During the century, slave trading expanded across the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, while declining in Russia and China. Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1725 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – Johann Sebastian Bach, J. S. Bach leads the first performance of his Chorale cantata cycle, chorale cantata Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41, ''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'', BWV 41, which features the trumpet fanfares from the beginning also in the end. * January 6 – Johann Sebastian Bach, J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, ''Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen'', BWV 123, a Chorale cantata cycle, chorale cantata for Epiphany (holiday), Epiphany. * January 15 – James Macrae, a former captain of a freighter for the British East India Company, is hired by the Company to administer the Madras Presidency (at this time, the "Presidency of Fort St. George"), and begins major reforms. The area administered is most of Southern India, including what is now the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, parts the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Odisha and the un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1665 Births
Events January–March * January 5 – The '' Journal des sçavans'' begins publication of the first scientific journal in France. * February 15 – Molière's comedy '' Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre'', based on the Spanish legend of the womanizer Don Juan Tenorio and Tirso de Molina's Spanish play '' El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra'', premieres in Paris at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal. * February 21 – In India, Shivaji Bhonsale of the Maratha Empire captures the English East India Company's trading post at Sadashivgad (now located in the Indian state of Karnataka). * February – In England, Dr. Richard Lower performs the first blood transfusion between animals. According to his account to the Royal Society journal ''Philosophical Transactions'' in December, Dr. Lower "towards the end of February... selected one dog of medium size, opened its jugular vein, and drew off blood, until its strength was nearly gone. Then, to m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krisztina Csáky
Krisztina Csáky (1654–1723) was a Hungarian countess. She participated in Rákóczi's War of Independence in 1703–1711. Life Born in Szepes as the eldest daughter of Istvan Csáky and Margit Lonay. Her father was Lord Chief Justice and Captain-General of Upper Hungary. Other influential family members included her maternal grandfather Zsigmond Lónyay who had been elected Palatine. First marriage On the 21 Juli 1669, Krisztina was married to the ten year older Sándor Erdődy,High sheriff of Vas County, with whom she had a son Sandor and three daughters Margaretha, Erzsébet and Juliana. In 1670 when Krisztina was about 17 years of age and pregnant with her first child Sandor, her mother died in childbed. Her father would go on to marry twice more giving her several half-siblings. Erdődy died in 1681 Second marriage After the death of her first husband she married sometime after 1682, the half-uncle of her husband the influential nobleman and Nikola/Miklós Drašk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zichy Family
The House of Zichy (of Zich and Vázsonykő) is the name of an ancient Magyar family of the Hungarian nobility, conspicuous in Hungarian history from the latter part of the 13th century onwards. History The first authentic ancestor of the Zichy bore the name of Gal (Gál) Zayk, and Zayk was the surname of the family until it came into possession of Zich in the 14th century. They first came into great prominence in the 17th century, being given countly rank in 1679 in the person of the imperial general Stefan Zichy (d. 1693). His descendants divided, first into two branches: those of Zichy-Palota and Zichy-Karlburg. The Palota line, divided again into three: that of Nagy-Lang, that of Adony and Szent-Miklos, and that of Palota, which died out in the male line in 1874. The line of Zichy-Karlburg (since 1811 Zichy-Ferraris) split into four branches: that of Vedrod, that of Vezsony, and those of Daruvar and Csics, now extinct. Notable members * Count Károly Zichy (1753–1826) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladislas Ignace De Bercheny
Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny () (August 3, 1689 in Eperjes, Sáros County, Kingdom of Hungary (today Prešov, Slovakia) – January 9, 1778 in Luzancy, Kingdom of France (today France) was a Hungarian-born soldier who became Marshal of France. Life Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny was born in 1689, the son of Hungarian noble and army commander Miklós Bercsényi, who was a friend of Francis II Rákóczi. Bercheny spent his childhood in Vranov, Brunovce and Tovarníky . After his mother's death in 1691, he lived with relatives in Hlohovec until 1695 when his father remarried to Krisztina Csaky who raised him and his sister at the castle in Užhorod. He was educated at the Jesuit grammar school at the age of ten. After his father fled to Poland in 1701, twelve-year-old Ladislas was transferred to the Jesuit grammar school in Košice. Bercheny started his military career in the Bodyguard of prince Rákóczi. After the Prince's failure to achieve Hungarian independence in 1711, Berc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orșova
Orșova (; ; ; ) is a port city on the Danube river in southwestern Romania's Mehedinți County. It is one of four localities in the Banat historical region situated just above the Iron Gates where the Cerna River meets the Danube. History * The locality was the site of a Roman port in Dacia Malvensis, and the site of the Roman city and fort of Dierna * In 1925, a confusion by the scholar Nándor Fettich misplaced the important Magyar burial site discovered at Cheglevici into the Orșova region. Later, the location of that discovery, testifying to the presence of the Magyars since the early 10th century, was clarified for the archeological community. * King Ladislaus I of Hungary decisively defeated the Cumans near Orșova in 1091. * It was a major border fortification in the Middle Ages. * The city was captured by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1522. * Orșova became part of the Habsburg monarchy in 1687 at the start of an Ottoman-Habsburg War, but Ottoman forces recaptur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
