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GEORGE II

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GEORGE II ., See also:prince of Transylvania (1621-166o), was the eldest son of George I. and Susannah Lorantffy. He was elected prince of Transylvania during his See also:father's lifetime (Feb. 19, 1642), and married (Feb. 3, 1643), See also:Sophia See also:Bathory, who was previously compelled by his See also:mother to reject the See also:Roman faith and turn Calvinist. On ascending the See also:throne (Oct. 11, 1648), his first thought was to realize his father's See also:Polish ambitions. With this See also:object in view, he allied himself, in the beginning of 1649, with the Cossack See also:hetman, Bohdan See also:Chmielnicki, and the hospodars of See also:Moldavia and Wallachia. It was not, however, till 1657, as the ally of Gustavus See also:Adolphus, that he led a See also:rabble of 40,000 semi-savages against the Polish See also:king, See also:John Casimir. He took See also:Cracow and entered See also:Warsaw with the Swedes, but the moment his See also:allies withdrew the whole See also:scheme collapsed, and it was only on the most humiliating terms that the Poles finally allowed him to return to Transylvania. Here (Nov. 3, 1657) the See also:diet, at the command of the See also:Porte, deposed him for undertaking an unauthorized See also:war, but in See also:January 1658 he was reinstated by the Medgyes Diet. Again he was deposed by the See also:grand See also:vizier, and again reinstated as if nothing had happened, but all in vain.

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Turks again invaded Transylvania, and R6.k6czy died at Nagyvarad of the wounds received at the See also:battle of Gyula (May 166o). See Imre See also:Bethlen, See also:Life and Times of George Rak6czy II. (Hung.) (Nagy-Enyed, 1829); Life (Hung.) in See also:Sandor Szilagyi's Hungarian See also:Historical See also:Biographies (See also:Budapest, 1891).

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