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NADASDY, TAMAS I

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 148 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NADASDY, TAMAS I ., See also:COUNT, called the See also:great See also:palatine (1498-1562), Hungarian statesman, was the son of See also:Francis I. Nadasdy and was educated at See also:Graz, See also:Bologna and See also:Rome. In 1521 he accompanied See also:Cardinal See also:Cajetan (whom the See also:pope had sent to See also:Hungary to preach a crusade against the See also:Turks) to Buda as his interpreter. In 1525 he became a member of the See also:council of See also:state and was sent by See also:King See also:Louis II. to the See also:diet of See also:Spires to ask for help in the imminent See also:Turkish See also:war. During his See also:absence the See also:Mohacs See also:catastrophe took See also:place, and Nadasdy only returned to Hungary in See also:time to escort the See also:queen-widow from See also:Komarom to See also:Pressburg. He was sent to offer the Hungarian See also:crown to the See also:archduke See also:Ferdinand, and on his See also:coronation (Nov. 3rd, 1527) was made commandant of Buda. On the See also:capture of Buda by See also:Suleiman the Magnificent, Nadasdy went over to See also:John Zapolya. In 1530 he successfully defended Buda against the imperialists. In 1533 his See also:jealousy of the dominant See also:influence of Ludovic Gritti caused him to See also:desert John for Ferdinand, to whom he afterwards remained faithful. He was endowed with enormous estates by the See also:emperor,; and from 1537 onwards became Ferdinand's See also:secret but most influential counsellor. Subsequently, as See also:ban of Croatia-Slavonia, he valiantly defended that border See also:province against the Turks.

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education, and the school which he founded at Uj-Sziget, where he also set up a See also:printing-See also:press, received a warm eulogy from See also:Philip See also:Melanchthon. In 1540 Nadasdy was appointed grandjusticiar; in 1547 he presided over the diet of See also:Nagyszombat, and finally, in 1559, was elected palatine by the diet of Pressburg. In his declining years he aided the heroic Miklos See also:Zrinyi against the Turks. See Mihaly Horvath, The See also:Life of See also:Thomas Nddasdy (Hung.) (Buda, i838); T. Nadasdy, See also:Family See also:correspondence of Thomas Nadasdy (Hung.) (See also:Budapest, 1882). (R. N.

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