Bernát Csányi (
fl. 1549–1581) () was a Hungarian politician and official from the old noble
Csányi family
The Csányi family or Csány was a noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary, which first appeared in the early 14th century and had estates and villages mostly in Zala County (former), Zala County.
History
The Csányi family originated from the nota ...
,
Vice-''ispán'' of
Zala.
Life
Bernát (II) Csányi was born as the eldest son of Miklós (II) Csányi (fl. 1500–41) and Lúcia Maráczy (or Maráci). His paternal grandfather was
Balázs Csányi
Balázs Csányi (; died 1532) was a Hungarian nobleman, royal counselor, who served as vice-''ispán'' of Zala County in the first decades of the 16th century.
Early life
Balázs (II) Csányi was born in the late 1460s into Csányi family, an unt ...
, royal counselor. His maternal grandparents were Ambrus Nezdei, landowner and Katalin Maráczy. Bernát married Magdolna Kövér de Bagonya, daughter of Balázs Kövér de Bagonya and Margit Hettyey de Mihályháza. Bernát Csányi and Magdolna Kövér de Bagonya had two children: György (fl. 1592–1630) and Imre; György Csányi, married Borbála Perneszy de Osztopán, then Catherine Sylvester, his brother Imre Csányi (fl. 1592), married Catherine Eördögh de Pölöskefő.
He served as
vice-''ispán'' of
Zala County
Zala (, ; ; ) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''vármegye'') in south-western Hungary. It is named after the Zala River. It shares borders with Croatia (Koprivnica–Križevci County, Koprivnica–Križevci and MeÄ ...
from 4 December 1580 to 1 November 1581. Beside that he was also tax-collector (''dicator'') of the county from 12 October 1580, along with Ferenc Szili de Isebor. Alongside Jób Kávási, Imre Pete de Hetés and Ambrus Pető de Gerse, he represented Zala County at the
Diet of 1581 in
Pressburg
Bratislava (German: ''Pressburg'', Hungarian: ''Pozsony'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Slovakia, Slovak Republic and the fourth largest of all List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. ...
(today, Bratislava,
Slovakia
Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...
), between 1 November 1581 and 19 February 1582. From 8 June 1584 to 16 November 1586, he was appointed tax-collector again.
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16th-century Hungarian people
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