Erzsébet Czobor Explained

Erzsébet Czobor
Baroness of Czoborszentmihály
Full Name:	Baroness Erzsébet Czobor de Czoborszentmihály
Noble Family:	House of Czobor House of Thurzó
Father:	Baron Imre Czobor de Czoborszentmihály
Mother:	Borbála Perényi de Perény
Spouse:	Count György Thurzó de Bethlenfalva (1592–1616)
Birth Date:	1572
Death Date:	31 March 1626
Death Place:	Szomolány, Kingdom of Hungary (today: Smolenice, Slovakia)
Issue:	Imre

Baroness Erzsébet Czobor de Czoborszentmihály (1572 – 31 March 1626) was the second wife of Palatine György Thurzó.^[1]

Biography

Her parents were Imre Czobor, who served as Palatinal Governor of Hungary between 1572 and 1581, and his third wife, Borbála Perényi de Perény.^[2]

Thurzó and Erzsébet married on 2 February 1592 in Sasvár (today part of Šaštín-Stráže, Slovakia). They had several children:

• János, died young
• Borbála, she married twice:
  • 30 September 1612: Count Kristóf Erdődy de Monyorókerék et Monoszló (d. 1621)
  • 29 January 1629 (Zólyom): Count János Draskovich de Trakostyán, Palatine of Hungary (1646–1648)
• Ilona, married to Count Gáspár Illésházy (d. 1648)
• Imre (11 September 1598 – 19 October 1621), Perpetual Ispán (Count; comes) of Árva County and Rector of the University of Wittenberg (1616–1621), the last male member of the Thurzó family
• Mária, married to Mihály Vízkelethy in 1618
• Katalin (d. 1647), married to Baron István Thököly de Késmárk (1581–1651) in 1620, paternal grandmother of Count Imre Thököly
• Anna, married to Baron János Szunyogh de Jeszenicze et Budatin (d. 1641) in 1622
• Erzsébet

Sources

• Miklós Kubinyi: Bethlenfalvi gróf Thurzó Imre 1598–1621, Budapest, Méhner Vilmos kiadása, 1888

Notes and References

1. Web site: Marek . Miroslav . Thurzó family . Genealogy.EU.
2. Web site: Marek . Miroslav . Czobor de Czoborszentmihály family . Genealogy.EU.