The House of Pálffy, also known as Pálffy von Erdőd, Pálffy de Erdőd, or Pálffy of Erdőd, is the name of an old Hungarian noble family, later incorporated into Austrian nobility. Members of the family held significant positions in the Habsburg monarchy.
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Stephan II [István] Count Pálffy [Palfy, Balvi] of Erdöd June 1585 Bibersburg-29.5.1646 Vienna], successor of his father Nicholas II [10.9.1552 Csábrágh-23.4.1600 Cervený Kameň, married to Maria Magdalena Fugger von Kirchberg und Weißenhorn [30.4.1566-295.1646], a daughter of Baron Markus Fugger [Marx Fugger) von der Lilie [14.2.1529-18.6.1597) in Augsburg[4] and Countess Sybilla von Eberstein [1531-1589], as High Count of Pressburg, also Crown Guardian and Imperial Councillor, was in 1634 in the raised to the rank of Hungarian count.
He was an imperial colonel of the light cavalry. In 1632 he had raised 1,000 Hungarian throws.
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Sigismund of Luxembourg was prince-elector of Brandenburg from 1378 until 1388 and from 1411 until 1415, king of Hungary and Croatia from 1387, king of Germany from 1411, king of Bohemia from 1419, king
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Alfonso II called the Chaste or the Troubadour, was the King of Aragon and, as Alfons I, the Count of Barcelona from 1164 until his death.:
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Subject nationality: Hungary
Subject gender: Male
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Count Palatine Wolfgang of Zweibrücken (German: Pfalzgraf Wolfgang von Zweibrücken; 26 September 1526 – 11 June 1569) was member of the Wittelsbach family of the Counts Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken from 1532. With the support of his regent, his uncle Rupert (later made the Count of Veldenz), Wolfgang introduced the Reformation to Zweibrücken in 1537.
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Archduchess Magdalena of Austria was a member of the House of Habsburg, and the founder and first abbess of the convent in Hall in Tirol.
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Eleonora Gonzaga, was by birth Princess of Mantua, Nevers and Rethel from the Nevers branch of the House of Gonzaga and by marriage Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia.
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Count Johann von Werth, also Jan von Werth or in French Jean de Werth, was a German general of cavalry in the Thirty Years’ War.
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Pope Urban VIII was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death in 1644. He expanded the papal territory by force of arms and advantageous politicking, and was also a prominent patron of the arts and a reformer of Church missions
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