Ursula Kanizsay

Ursula Kanizsay

Ursula ( Hungarian Orsolya ) Kanizsay (* 1521 ; † 1571 in Sárvár ) was the last descendant of the Hungarian aristocratic family Kanizsay .

She was born as the daughter of László Kanizsai and Anna Drágffy. With the death of her father in 1532, the male family died out. As the last of her family, Ursula Kanizsay could only inherit the family property by being declared a boy with the permission of King Johann Zápolya . In 1535 she married Thomas III. Nádasdy with which the ownership of the Kanizsay passed to Nádasdy, who rose to become one of the richest Hungarian magnates of his time.

In Zala county , many commented on the family, and friendly relations of Ursula Kanizsay family known. As shown by extensive correspondence with friends, Kanizsay was an educated woman. When her husband Thomas was absent or had health problems, she took over the administration in Sárvár . She also enjoyed a reputation as a good gardener.

With her death in 1571, the Kanizsay family died out for good. Ursula Kanizsay was buried in what was then the Nádasdy crypt in the old Lockenhaus monastery, which no longer exists today. Her remains are to this day in a sarcophagus in the Nádasdy crypt below the Roman Catholic parish church Lockenhaus , where she and her husband were transferred after the new crypt was built.

literature

• Vida Tivadar (szerkesztő): Szerelmes Orsikám ... A Nádasdyak és Szegedi Kőrös Gáspár levelezése, Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó (Budapest), 1988, ISBN 963-15-3736-6 (Hungarian)

Web links

• Entry about Ursula Kanizsay in the Hungarian Biographical Lexicon (MEK) of the National Széchényi Library (Hungarian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Church in Lockenhaus in: "Burgenländische Gemeinschaft", organ of the association for the care of the local ties of Burgenlanders all over the world, VII. Jg./Nr. 4, April 1962, p. 2