Erzsébet Czobor

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

Erzsébet Czobor
Baroness of Czoborszentmihály
Baroness Erzsébet in her bier
Full name Baroness Erzsébet Czobor de Czoborszentmihály
Born	1572
Died	31 March 1626 Szomolány, Kingdom of Hungary (today: Smolenice, Slovakia)
Noble family	House of Czobor House of Thurzó
Spouse(s)	Count György Thurzó de Bethlenfalva (1592–1616)
Issue Imre
Father	Baron Imre Czobor de Czoborszentmihály
Mother	Borbála Perényi de Perény

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

References

1. Marek, Miroslav. "Thurzó family". Genealogy.EU.
2. Marek, Miroslav. "Czobor de Czoborszentmihály family". Genealogy.EU.

Sources

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