Bernhard I. Thurzo

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Bernhard I. Thurzo von Bethlenfalva (* around 1500 in Augsburg , † 1551 in Grafenegg ) was an Austrian nobleman.

family

His grandfather Johann I. Thurzo was in intensive business dealings with the Fuggers and was considered to be one of the most powerful entrepreneurs in Europe, his father Georg I. Thurzo was the chief mint master of Hungary and married to Anna Fugger, Ulrich Fugger's daughter .

Bernhard was the counselor and cupbearer or truchess of Ferdinand I.

He was married to Katharina von Neidegg, a daughter of Hans X. von Neidegg zu Ranna . In 1536, Bernhard I. Thurzo bought the castle and estate of Grafenegg, with which he founded the Grafenegger line of the Thurzo family, which died out with his son Bernhard II in 1596. His daughter was Borbála von Thurzo von Bethlenfalva, who was with Hans III. married by Pécs and inherited.

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Individual evidence

  1. Commentary on the parish church of St. Ulrich, Haitzendorf on oeaw.ac.at