Francis II Batthyány

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Count Franz II Batthyány

Count Franz II. Batthyány (* 1577 ; † September 13, 1625 ) was a Hungarian nobleman from the Batthyány magnate family . He was the ruler of areas that today extend over southern Burgenland and parts of Hungary and Slovenia .

Life

Wife Eva Poppel- Lobkowitz

Franz Batthyány was the only son of Balthasar III. Batthyánys and the Countess Dorothea Zrinyi . He grew up first in Güssing and later as a noble boy at the court of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague . In 1603 he was raised to the rank of baron . He was chamberlain to Emperors Rudolf II, Matthias and Ferdinand II , royal stableman (awarded in 1608) and chief appointee (awarded in 1609) of the Ödenburg county .

Batthyány was the chief field captain in Lower Hungary . In the course of the Austrian Turkish War Batthyány fought on the side of the Habsburg Monarchy against the Ottomans in 1593 near Gran , 1595 near Stuhlweissenburg and 1602 near Kanizsa . For his services in this war he was raised to the rank of count in 1603 . In 1605, the Ottomans invaded Batthyánys' dominion, devastated the country and took parts of the population into captivity. Batthyány defended its territories and received the rule of Körmend from Emperor Rudolf II .

In 1607 he married Eva Poppel- Lobkowitz (approx. 1585–1640) in Neuhaus , who came from the old Bohemian nobility . Through this marriage he came into the possession of the lordship of Neuhaus, St. Gotthard , Rakicsán and Bicske, among others . He lived with his wife in Güssing and had three sons and three daughters with her. The eldest son Balthasar (* 1607 or 1608) died at the age of 14. Ádám succeeded Franz Batthyány as the ruler and played an important role in his rulership in the course of the Counter Reformation . The youngest son Gabriel (* 1623) died at the age of eleven months. The daughters were Maria Magdalena († 1664), first married to Count Ladislaus Csáky, and Elisabeth, wife of Count Georg Erdődys , and Barbara, married to the younger Count of Forgács.

When Ferdinand II was crowned King of Hungary in 1618 , Batthyány carried the sword of Saint Stephen .

In 1620 Franz Batthyány fought, the Calvinist was at the side of the Hungarian and Protestant Gábor Bethlen in an anti-Habsburg uprising against the emperor. He saw religious freedom at risk and even deployed a Turkish aid force from Kanizsa in the fighting. After the Peace of Nikolsburg , the Archbishop of Esztergom Péter Pázmány , who was on friendly terms with Batthyány, stood up for Batthyány at the emperor and Batthyány was again accepted into the emperor's grace.

Franz Batthyány was the protector of the Protestants throughout his life. He died on September 13, 1625 in Schlaining .

literature

  • András Koltai: Adam Batthyány and his library , Amt d. Burgenland. State government, Dept. 7 - Culture, Wiss. u. Archive, main lecture Landesarchiv u. State Library, Eisenstadt 2002, ISBN 3-901517-33-2 .
  • Bibiana Kametler: Count Adam I of Batthyany. Dissertation. Vienna 1961.
  • Peter Jandrisevits : Certificates and documents on Burgenland and the surrounding area , published by Burgenland Landesarchiv , Eisenstadt 1932–1936
  • Béla Iványi: Pázmány Péter, kiadatlan levélei , (German Pázmány Péter, unpublished letters), Körmend 1943. (in Hungarian)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ castle archive Güssing, charging XXXIV, Fasc. 5, No. 1
  2. ↑ Gratian readers: Güssing and his castle lords . In: Güssinger Zeitung. No. 23, 1922
  3. ↑ a b c Bibiana Kametler: Count Adam I von Batthyany. Dissertation at the University of Vienna, Vienna 1961, p. 14ff.
  4. ^ A b c d e Batthyány family 17th century on the Batthyány family website (accessed October 7, 2010)
  5. ↑ castle archive Güssing, charging XXVII, Fasc. 1, No. 15
  6. ↑ Galla Ferenc: Harminckilenc kiadatlan Pázmány levél . (Ger. 39 unedited letters from Pázmánys), Ed. Galla Ferenc, Vác 1936, in Hungarian, letters No. 1 and No. 2
personal data
SURNAME Batthyány, Franz II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Batthyány, Count Franz II (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian magnate, member of the Batthyány magnate family
DATE OF BIRTH 1577
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1625