Individual Details
Baron Miklós II Pálffy ab Erdöd
(10 Sep 1552 - 23 Apr 1600)
- Baron 1581; Count 1599
Miklos was born in Csábrágh on 10 September 1552, the son of Baron Peter Pálffy ab Erdöd and Sophie Dersffy de Zerdahely. On 5 June 1583 he married Maria Magdalena Fugger, daughter of Marx (Marcus) Fugger, Herr zu Kirchheim und Weissenhorn, and Gräfin Sibylla von Eberstein. They had nine children of whom three sons and three daughters would have progeny.
Next to István Illéshazy, Miklos was the most powerful and highly respected Hungarian politician and military commander in Hungary at the end of the 16th century. He was respected partly because he was educated in the imperial court, and partly because his wife Maria Fugger originated from the most powerful banking family of the age. A descendant of a family of the lower nobility from county Poszony, he rose to high positions, and became a count, then one of the most powerful and wealthy noblemen of the country.
Miklos was a chamberlain (1581-1600), then captain-general of Komárom (1584-1589), Érsekújvár (1589-1600) and Esztergom (1595-1600). In the winter of 1593-1594 he reoccupied the Turkish fortresses of county Nógrád, which was the most important Christian success of the Fifteen Years' War (1591-1606). He gained his European fame by taking back Györ on 29 March 1598 with Graf Adolf von Schwarzenberg. He was one of the few Hungarian noblemen in the 16th and 17th centuries who were respected by the Lower-Austrian and Czech nobility, and he became an honorary citizen of the empire.
Miklos died on 23 April 1600 at Biebersburg (Vörösskö) in Hungary.
Miklos was born in Csábrágh on 10 September 1552, the son of Baron Peter Pálffy ab Erdöd and Sophie Dersffy de Zerdahely. On 5 June 1583 he married Maria Magdalena Fugger, daughter of Marx (Marcus) Fugger, Herr zu Kirchheim und Weissenhorn, and Gräfin Sibylla von Eberstein. They had nine children of whom three sons and three daughters would have progeny.
Next to István Illéshazy, Miklos was the most powerful and highly respected Hungarian politician and military commander in Hungary at the end of the 16th century. He was respected partly because he was educated in the imperial court, and partly because his wife Maria Fugger originated from the most powerful banking family of the age. A descendant of a family of the lower nobility from county Poszony, he rose to high positions, and became a count, then one of the most powerful and wealthy noblemen of the country.
Miklos was a chamberlain (1581-1600), then captain-general of Komárom (1584-1589), Érsekújvár (1589-1600) and Esztergom (1595-1600). In the winter of 1593-1594 he reoccupied the Turkish fortresses of county Nógrád, which was the most important Christian success of the Fifteen Years' War (1591-1606). He gained his European fame by taking back Györ on 29 March 1598 with Graf Adolf von Schwarzenberg. He was one of the few Hungarian noblemen in the 16th and 17th centuries who were respected by the Lower-Austrian and Czech nobility, and he became an honorary citizen of the empire.
Miklos died on 23 April 1600 at Biebersburg (Vörösskö) in Hungary.
Events
| Birth | 10 Sep 1552 | Csábrágh | |||
| Marriage | 5 Jun 1583 | Augsburg - Maria Magdalena Fugger | |||
| Death | 23 Apr 1600 | Biebersburg |
Families
| Spouse | Maria Magdalena Fugger (1566 - 1646) |
| Child | Countess Sofia Maria Pálffy ab Erdöd (1596 - 1668) |
| Child | Count István II Pálffy ab Erdöd (1585 - 1646) |
| Child | Baroness Katalin Pálffy ab Erdöd ( - 1639) |
| Father | Péter I. Pálffy ab Erdöd ( - ) |
| Mother | Zsófia Dersffy ( - ) |