Ludwig Batthyány (Palatine Hill)

Count Ludwig Ernst Batthyány

Ludwig Ernst Batthyány ( Hungarian: Batthyány Lajos Ernő) (* March 17, 1696 ; † October 26, 1765 ) was the eldest son of Adam II. Batthyány (1662–1703) and Eleonore Batthyány-Strattmann , Hungarian court chancellor and palatine .

Live and act

At first he was a kk captain in the war and fought in the battle of Peterwardein and the siege of Temesvár in 1716. Finally he switched to civil service. On May 27, 1717, he married Countess Therese Kinsky (1700–1775) in Vienna. In 1737 he became the Hungarian court chancellor in Vienna. As such, he took part in the Diet of Pressburg in 1741 and took sides with Empress Maria Theresa in a fiery speech . He is head cupbearer, privy councilor and since 1744 Knight of the Golden Fleece (No 712). In 1751 he becomes the last Palatine of Hungary for the time being . In 1756 he sets up a regiment of hussars that is used in the Seven Years' War .

He chooses Bicske Castle as the administrative and head office and extensively remodeled it.

literature

Kálmán Benda: Batthyány, Lajos Graf , in: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Vol. 1. Munich 1974, p. 160 f.

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Batthyány (Palatine) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry about Ludwig Batthyány (Palatine) in the Hungarian Biographical Lexicon (MEK) of the National Széchényi Library (Hungarian)
Batthyány family site: 18th century

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Batthyány Lajos Ernő in the Deák Ferenc Megyei Könyvtár online catalog, accessed on June 28, 2012
↑ List nominal des chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or, depuis son instiution jusqu'à nos jours , in: The House of Austria and the Order of the Golden Fleece. Edited by the Ordenskanzlei. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz / Stuttgart 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-7020-1172-7 ), pp. 161–198, here p. 183.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Pálffy von Erdöd	Palatine of Hungary 1751–1765	Alexander Leopold of Austria (1766–1789 the office remained vacant)

personal data
SURNAME	Batthyány, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Batthyány, Ludwig Ernst; Batthyány, Lajos Ernő (Hungarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian court chancellor and palatine
DATE OF BIRTH	March 17, 1696
DATE OF DEATH	October 26, 1765

[Könykat-1] Batthyány Lajos Ernő in the Deák Ferenc Megyei Könyvtár online catalog, accessed on June 28, 2012

[2] List nominal des chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or, depuis son instiution jusqu'à nos jours , in: The House of Austria and the Order of the Golden Fleece. Edited by the Ordenskanzlei. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz / Stuttgart 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-7020-1172-7 ), pp. 161–198, here p. 183.