Ladislaus Esterházy
Ladislaus Esterházy Count von Galánta (born December 31, 1626 , † August 25 or 26, 1652 in Vezekény ) was a Hungarian general in the Turkish Wars .
Life
Count Ladislaus succeeded his father Count Nikolaus in 1645 as head and majorate since his older brother Stephan had died in 1641.
In 1649, when he was a majorate, the final claim to power over Eisenstadt , which his father had already sought. Eisenstadt, however, was only assigned to it by the Emperor in 1622 as a pledge and not as a fief. As early as 1645, Esterházy had taken on his first political offices, for example as a member of the Hungarian Reichstag or as the successor to his father's Obergespan of Ödenburg County .
The count was married to the Hungarian countess Eleonóra Batthyány, but the marriage remained childless. He fell at the age of 26 in 1652 in the Battle of Vezekény (Slovak: Veľké Vozokany, Hungarian: Nagyvezekény) against the Turks .
From a military point of view, this battle was completely insignificant in the war of the Holy Roman Empire against the Turks on Hungarian soil. But it was a deep turning point for the Esterházy family , because not only the head of the Forchtenstein line, Count Ladislaus, but also three of his cousins from the other two lines fell.
Even today, two oversized paintings (one of the battle and one of the funeral ceremonies), as well as numerous other memorabilia (helmets, breastplates ...) commemorate the four fallen from the Esterházy family.
The new head of the Forchtenstein line was Count Paul, his youngest brother, who was to go down in history as Paul I as the first prince of the Esterházy magnate family.
Web links
- Count Ladislaus on esterhazy.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ladislaus Esterházy (1626–1652) on uni-klu.ac.at, accessed on March 28, 2013.
- ^ Count László Esterházy de Galántha (1626-1652). at http://de.esterhazy.net , accessed June 10, 2018.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Nicholas |
Majority lord of the Esterházy family 1645–1652 |
Paul I. |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Esterházy, Ladislaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Esterházy de Galánta, Ladislaus; Esterházy Count of Galánta, Ladislaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1626 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1652 or August 26, 1652 |
| Place of death | Vezekény |