Imre Thököly, the scion of a rich…
1680 CE
Imre Thököly, the scion of a rich Protestant family in Royal Hungary, had moved to Transylvania after his father was executed for having had a role in the Hungarian magnates' conspiracy against the Habsburg emperor Leopold I (1670).
His family properties sequestered, he has become a leader of the Hungarian Protestant resistance to the continuing repressive Habsburg policy.
Thököly is in 1680 elected commander in chief of the malcontents.