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See also:ZRINYI, MIKLOS, See also:COUNT (1508—1566) , Hungarian See also:hero, was a son of Mikl6s Zrinyi and Ilona Karlovics. He distinguished himself at the See also:siege of See also:Vienna in 1529, and in 1542 saved the imperial See also:army from defeat before Pest by intervening with 400 Croats, for which service he was appointed See also:ban of Croatia. In 1542 he routed the See also:Turks at Somlyo. In 1543 he married See also:Catherine Frargipan, who placed the whole of her vast estates at his disposal. The See also:Emperor See also:Ferdinand also gave him large possessions in See also:Hungary, and henceforth the Zrinyis became as much Magyar as Croatian magnates. In 1556 Zrinyi won a See also:series of victories over the Turks, culminating in the See also:battle of Babocsa. The Croatians, however, overwhelmed their ban with reproaches for neglecting them to fight for the See also:Magyars, and the emperor simultaneously deprived him of the captaincy of Upper Croatia and sent 1o,000 men to aid the Croats, while the Magyars were See also:left without any help, where-upon Zrinyi resigned the banship (1561). In 1563, on the See also:coronation of the Emperor See also:Maximilian as See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Hungary, Zrinyi attended the ceremony at the See also:head of 3000 Croatian and Magyar mounted noblemen, in the vain See also:hope of obtaining the dignity of See also:palatine, vacant by the See also:death of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Nadasdy. Shortly after marrying(in 1564) his second wife, Eva Rosenberg, a See also:great Bohemian heiress, he hastened -southwards to defend the frontier, defeated the Turks at Segesd, and in 1566 from the 5th of See also:August to the 7th of See also:September heroically defended the little fortress of Szigetvar against the whole See also:Turkish See also:host, led by See also:Suleiman the Magnificent in See also:person, perishing with every member of the See also:garrison in a last desperate sortie.
See F. Salamon, Ungarn See also:im Zeitalter der Tiirkenherrschaft (See also:Leipzig, 1887) ; J. Csuday, The Zrinyis in Hungarian See also:History (Hun .) See also:Szombathely. 1884, 8vo. (R. N. B.
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