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3 unusual facts about Gabriel Báthory


Gabriel Báthory

Gabriel sent András Ghiczy as a messenger to Constantinople to thank the Sultan for the support, but on the way Ghiczy joined the Prince's opposition at Kronstadt and travelled on as a messenger of the Three Nations to ask the Sultan to depose the despotic Prince.

Joined by Radu Mihnea of Wallachia, Crimean Tatars and another army from Hungary, they reached Transylvania in October.

Moldavian Magnate Wars

Bethlen had been appointed to the office after the Sultan's removal of Gabriel Báthory (ordered to the troops of Iskender Pasha in 1613).



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