Pál Pálffy ab Erdőd ( hu, erdődi Pálffy Pál, german: Paul Pálffy von Erdöd; 19 January 1592
Castle of Vöröskő,
Kingdom of Hungary – 26 November 1653
Pressburg
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,
Kingdom of Hungary) was a Hungarian noble and
Palatine of Hungary.
Life
Pál Pálffy de Erdőd, was the fourth son of Miklós Pálffy ab Erdőd and Maria von Fugger, daughter of
Markus Fugger
Markus Fugger (Marx Fugger) ''von der Lilie'' (14 February 1529 – 18 June 1597) was a German politician and businessman of the Fugger family. He was the eldest son of Anton Fugger. He achieved several high offices - chamberlain to Archduke Ern ...
from the wealthy
Fugger
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family.
[Taschenbuch für vaterländische Geschichte Band 1, Page 61.]
He was
Geheimrat, Chamberlain, the first
Perpetual count A perpetual count ( hu, örökös főispán, la, supremus et perpetuus comes)Nemes 1989, p. 81. was a head or an ''ispán'' of a county in the Kingdom of Hungary (“Lord Lieutenant”) whose office was either hereditary or attached to the dignity ...
of
Pozsony County and Captain of the
Royal Castle (in Pressburg, today
Bratislava
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,
Slovakia). Between 1646 and 1649 he was
Judge royal under Emperor
Ferdinand III. In 1649 he became
Palatine of Hungary and in 1650 Knight in the
Order of the Golden Fleece
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.
He married on 26 July 1629 with Franziska Khuen von Belasi (died 1672) and had three children:
* János III Antal (1642–1694), Perpetual count of Pozsony County
* János IV Károly (1645–1694), Fieldmarshal in Milano
* Mária Magdolna (died 1684), married August von Zinzendorf and Fernando degli Obizzi, no issue.
References
External links
*
Taschenbuch für die vaterländische Geschichte, Wien 1828
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Hungarian nobility
1580s births
1653 deaths
Knights of the Golden Fleece
Palatines of Hungary
Judges royal
Masters of the cupbearers