Ladislaus Esterházy

Ladislaus count Esterházy (* 1626; ? 1652) was Austria-Hungarian Field gentleman into that Turk wars.

Life

Count Ladislaus was the oldest son of the count Nikolaus Esterházy. Its older brother Stephan Esterházy died already 1641.

Off 1645 it was inheritance of its father, the count Nikolaus Esterházy. Ladislaus became new head of the family.

Into its term of office as an entailed property gentleman the final acquisition of the rule falls Iron city, those had aimed at its father so much. Its father had it 1622 only as pledge property from the emperor receive, not as Lehen.

But count Ladislaus Esterházy was not a long regent, because it fell already 1652 in that Battle of Vezekény against those Turk. Ladislaus Esterházy did not leave descendants.

The battle of Vezekény

This battle was not important of the war Austria against the Turks. But for the family Esterházy it was a deep cut, because the family head count Ladislaus Esterházy did not only fall in this battle, but also three further cousins of it. In this allegedly small battle, one speaks even only of a skirmish, became thereby a large part of one the most powerful Magnatenfamilie Hungary extinguished.

Today an oversize battle painting reminds, the funeral ceremonies, as well as numerous other erinnerungsstuecke to the four pleasures from the family Esterházy. The head of the family, as well as the office of the entailed property gentleman took over the youngest brother Ladislaus Esterházys, as Paul I. Prince Esterházy as a first prince from the Magnatenfamilie Esterházy history to enter should.