politician
Gabriel Bethlen.
Elected King of Hungary, Prince of Transylvania and Hungarian Protestant military leader (1580–1629)
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About Gabriel Bethlen
Gabriel Bethlen was Prince of Transylvania from 1613 to 1629 and Duke of Opole from 1622 to 1625. He was also King-elect of Hungary from 1620 to 1621, but he never took control of the whole kingdom. Bethlen, supported by the Ottomans, led his Calvinist principality against the Habsburgs and their Catholic allies.
Everything about Gabriel Bethlen →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Prince of Transylvania, Apostolic King of Hungary
- Citizenship
- Principality of Transylvania
- Born
- 1580, November 15, 1580
- Died
- November 15, 1629