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Miklós Zrínyi

Died in 1664

Miklós Zrínyi was born on 3 May 1620 into a family of Croatian-Hungarian magnates. Orphaned early, he was raised under the guardianship of Cardinal Péter Pázmány and studied with the Jesuits in Graz, then in Vienna and Nagyszombat, before a journey to Italy. Having become ban of Croatia around 1647-1648, he fought the Ottomans and in 1664 led a winter campaign as far as the bridge of Osijek. Also the author of military and political treatises, he died on 18 November 1664, killed by a wild boar while hunting; an assassination has been suspected.

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