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Gabriel Bethlen
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Elected King of Hungary, Prince of Transylvania and Hungarian Protestant military leader (1580–1629)
Key facts
- Reign
- 25 August 1620 – 31 December 1621
- Predecessor
- Matthias II
- Successor
- Ferdinand II
- Born
- 1580, Marosillye, Principality of Transylvania
- Died
- 15 November 1629 (aged 49), Gyulafehérvár, Principality of Transylvania
- Spouse
- Catherine of Brandenburg
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gábor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Principality of Transylvania
- Place of birth
- Ilia
- Place of death
- Alba Iulia
- Spouse
- Catherine of Brandenburg
- Sibling
- Stephen Bethlen
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Apostolic King of Hungary
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Religion
- Reformed Christianity
- Family
- Bethlen family
- Noble title
- Graf
- Conflict
- Thirty Years' War
- Image
- Gabriel Bethlen.png
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- Commons category
- Gábor Bethlen
- date of death
- 1629-11-15
- date of birth
- 1580-11-15
- place of burial
- St. Michael's Cathedral
- name in native language
- Bethlen Gábor
- Commons Creator page
- Gabriel Bethlen
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Encyclopedic overview
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Gabriel Bethlen (Hungarian: Bethlen Gábor; 1580 – 15 November 1629) 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.
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