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GEORGE I

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GEORGE I ., See also:prince of Transylvania (1591-1648), who began his career as See also:governor of Onod, was the youngest son of See also:Sigismund Rak6czy (1544-1608), who shared in the insurrection of See also:Stephen See also:Bocskay against the See also:Emperor See also:Rudolph II., and was for a See also:short See also:time prince of Transylvania. In 1616 he married his second wife., the highly gifted zealous Calvinist, Susannah Lorantffy, who exercised a See also:great See also:influence over him. He then took a leading See also:part in the See also:rebellion of See also:Gabriel See also:Bethlen, who made him commandant of Kassa, and was elected prince of Transylvania on the 26th of See also:November 163o by the See also:diet of See also:Segesvar. He followed the policy of Gabriel Bethlen, based on the See also:maintenance of the See also:political and religious liberties of the Hungarians. His See also:alliance with Gustavus See also:Adolphus of See also:Sweden for that purpose was no See also:secret at See also:Vienna, where the See also:court estimated at their right value R6,k6czy's hypocritical assurances of pacific amity. On the 2nd of See also:February 1644, at the solicitation of the See also:Swedish and See also:French ambassadors, and with the consent of the See also:Porte, he declared See also:war against the Emperor See also:Ferdinand III. Nearly the whole of imperial See also:Hungary was soon in his hands, and Ferdinand, hardly pressed by the Swedes at the same time, was compelled to conclude (See also:Sept. 16, 1645) with Rakbczy the See also:peace of See also:Linz, which accorded full religious See also:liberty to the See also:Magyars, and ceded to R6.k6czy the fortress of Regec and the See also:Tokaj See also:district. On the See also:death of See also:Wladislaus IV. (1648) Rak6czy aimed at the See also:Polish See also:throne also, but died before he could accomplish his See also:design. His See also:capital, Gyula Fehervar, was a great See also:Protestant resort and See also:asylum. See Secret See also:Correspondence of the See also:Age of George See also:Rake,czy I.

(Hung.), ed. Agoston Otvos (Klausenburg, 1848) ; Rdkdczy's Correspondence with Pdzmany, Esterhazy, &c. (Hung.), ed. Antal See also:

Beke (See also:Budapest, 1882) ; See also:Sandor Szilagyi, The Rdkoczy See also:Family in the 18th See also:Century (Hung.) (Pest, 1861).

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