György Cseszneky

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Count György Cseszneky was a Hungarian nobleman from the 16th century and a member of the Cseszneky family .

When Ludwig II (Bohemia and Hungary) fell against the Ottomans in the Battle of Mohács (1526) , György Cseszneky was bailiff of the castles of Tata (Hungary) and Komárom , today Komárno , Slovakia . In the contest for the Hungarian throne between Johann Zápolya and Archduke Ferdinand I (HRR) von Habsburg, he supported Ferdinand's concerns. When Gáspár Ráskai, Zápolya's commander, besieged the castle of Tata, Cseszneky had to finally give up the castle. He went to Pozsony, today's Bratislava , to ask Maria of Castile , Ferndinand's sister and widow of Ludwig II., For help. In 1528 he and Thomas III besieged . Nádasdy the Győr Castle in Ferdinand's place. Queen Maria appointed him judge at the royal court of Győr. When Emperor Charles V (HRR) banished Garcilaso de la Vega into exile on an island on the Danube in 1532 , Cseszneky was responsible for supplying it. Cseszneky later became a supporter of Protestantism and an advocate of the Lutheran faith. Ferdinand I gave him the title of Hungarian magnate, gave him the right to use red sealing wax and gave him various properties, including the villages of Kisbabot, Enese, Rábacsécsény and Utal.

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SURNAME Cseszneky, György
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH before 1526
DATE OF DEATH after 1532