Franz III. Nádasdy (Hungarian - ''Nádasdy III. Ferenc''; 14 January 1622 – 30 April 1671) was a chief judge and general in Hungary. He was one of the leaders of the
Magnate conspiracy
The Magnate conspiracy, also known as the Zrinski- Frankopan Conspiracy ( hr, Zrinsko-frankopanska urota) in Croatia, and Wesselényi conspiracy ( hu, Wesselényi-összeesküvés) in Hungary, was a 17th-century attempt to throw off Habsburg a ...
against
Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. After the conspiracy was revealed, he and two other leaders (
Petar Zrinski
Petar IV Zrinski ( hu, Zrínyi Péter) (6 June 1621 – 30 April 1671) was Ban of Croatia (Viceroy) from 1665 to 1670, general and a writer. A member of the Zrinski noble family, he was noted for his role in the attempted Croatian-Hungarian Ma ...
and Petar's brother-in-law
Fran Krsto Frankopan
Fran Krsto Frankopan ( hu, Frangepán Ferenc Kristóf; 4 March 1643 – 30 April 1671) was a Croatian baroque poet, nobleman and politician. He is remembered primarily for his involvement in the failed Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy. He was a ...
) were all executed.
Life
He was descended from two royal houses. He not only descended from a son of
Edward I of England
Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he ruled the duchies of Duchy of Aquitaine, Aquitaine and D ...
who had settled in Hungary, but also the grandson of
Ferenc Nádasdy. His grandmother
Elizabeth Báthory
Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed ( hu, Báthori Erzsébet, ; sk, Alžbeta Bátoriová; 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the family of Báthory, who owned land in the Kingdom of ...
(the infamous ''Bloody Countess of Csejte Castle'') came from the powerful
Báthory family.
Nádasdy converted to Roman Catholicism on 25 November 1643 in order to marry Countess Anna Júlia
Esterházy
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(1630–1669), daughter of
Nikolaus, Count Esterházy
Baron, later Count Nikolaus Esterházy de Galántha ( en, Nicholas Esterházy of Galántha) (Galanta, 8 April 1583Großhöflein, 11 September 1645) was the founder of the West-Hungarian noble House of Esterházy which became one of the grandes ...
, on 6 February the following year.
[Chronik Neufeld III, Neufeld an der Leitha 2007, S. 13.] After the Hungarian Diet in
Pressburg
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decided upon the return of the County of Hornstein to the
Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephe ...
, Nádasdy ordered Rudolf von Stotzingen to dismiss his mercenaries.
Bibliography (in German)
* ''Genealogisches Taschenbuch der deutschen gräflichen Häuser aus dem Jahr 1825.'' Gotha 1825
* Albert Gernot Absenger: ''Chronik Neufeld III, Verdichtung der gesamten Ortshistorie als Folge- und Erweiterungsband von Lang- und Kurzfassung der 2002 erschienen chronikartigen Darstellung'' Stadtgemeinde Neufeld an der Leitha, Neufeld an der Leitha 2007.
* Kálmán Benda:
Nádasdy, Ferenc Graf', in: ''Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas''. Bd. 3. München 1979, S. 284 f.
References
External links
Nádasdy-Familienseite* Heimatmuseum Rother Hof Pottendorf
''Nadasdy''(aufgerufen am 25. Oktober 2014)
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1622 births
1671 deaths
Hungarian nobility
Counts
17th-century executions
People executed by Austria
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People from the Habsburg monarchy