Alexander Károlyi
| Sándor Károlyi | |
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| Native name | Sándor Károlyi de Nagykároly |
| Born |
March 20, 1668 Nagykároly, Kingdom of Hungary |
| Died | September 8, 1743 (aged 75) Erdőd, Kingdom of Hungary |
| Allegiance |
.svg){kind=small} Imperial Austria, until 1703 Hungary 1703–1743 |
| Other work |
Treaty of Szatmár (1711) Lord Lieutenant, Szatmár County |
Baron, later Count Sándor Károlyi de Nagykároly (German: Alexander Károly von Nagy-Károly; 20 March 1668 – 8 September 1743) was a Hungarian aristocrat, statesman and Imperial Feldmarschall. He was one of the generals of Francis II Rákóczi during the War of Independence. Later he negotiated the Treaty of Szatmár, which guaranteed autonomy to the Hungarian nobles.
He was born in Nagykároly, Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Romania) on 20 March 1668, as a son of László Károlyi and his second wife, Erzsébet Sennyey. The Károly family is one of the oldest, richest, and most famous noble families of Hungary. The Károly castle with market towns and parishes is located in Upper Hungary beyond the Tisza, in Szatmár County.
After the Battle of Vienna (1681), and the subsequent (and eventual) ejection of the Ottoman armies from Principality of Transylvania in the Second Battle of Mohács in 1687, the disintegration of the Ottoman army while it crossed the Tisza river at the Battle of Zenta, allowed Imperial Habsburg armies to conquer large areas, including most of present-day Slavonia and Transylvania came under Imperial rule. On 9 December 1687 there was organized a Diet of Pressburg and Archduke Joseph was crowned as the first hereditary king of Hungary; future Habsburgs were declared to be the anointed kings of Hungary.
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