Imre Thököly
| Imre Thököly (Tököly) | |
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| Prince of Transylvania | |
| Reign | 22 September 1690 - 25 October 1690 |
| Predecessor | Michael I Apafi |
| Successor | Francis II Rákóczi |
| Prince of Upper Hungary | |
| Reign | 1682–1685 |
| Born | 25 September 1657 Késmárk/Käsmark, Kingdom of Hungary, Habsburg Monarchy (now Kežmarok, Slovakia) |
| Died | 13 September 1705 (aged 47) İzmit, Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey) |
| Burial | İzmit (1705) Kežmarok since 1906 |
| Spouse | Ilona Zrínyi |
| Issue | Erzsébet Thököly |
| House | Thököly |
| Father | István Thököly |
| Mother | Mária Gyulaffy |
| Religion | Lutheran Protestant |
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Count Imre Thököly de Késmárk (Thököly/Tököly/Tökölli Imre in Hungarian, Mirko (Emerik) Thököly in Croatian, Tökeli Emre in Turkish,Tekeli or Tekelija in Serbian; Imrich Tököli in Slovak, Emmerich Thököly in German; 25 September 1657 – 13 September 1705) was a Hungarian noble, leader of an anti-Habsburg uprising, Prince of Transylvania, and (briefly) vassal king of Upper Hungary.
Imre Thököly was born at Késmárk, Royal Hungary (today Kežmarok in Slovakia) in September 1657. He lost both parents while still a child. He studied at the Lutheran college in Eperjes (today Prešov, Slovakia) at a time when anti-Habsburg rebels and Protestants were constantly in arms against imperial troops in Upper Hungary (present-day eastern Slovakia).
In December 1670, when his father István Thököly--a participant of the anti-Habsburg Wesselényi conspiracy--was killed by imperial troops when protecting his Árva castle (Slovak: Orava, now in northern Slovakia), he fled from the castle to Transylvania, where he took refuge with his kinsman Mihály Teleki, chief minister of Michael Apafi, prince of Transylvania. Here Thököly came into contact with refugees from Royal Hungary, who had great hopes of the high-born, highly gifted youth who was also a fellow sufferer, a large portion of his immense estates having been confiscated by the Emperor. The discontent reached its height when Emperor Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (27 February 1673) suspended the Hungarian constitution, appointed Johan Caspar Ampringen dictator, deprived 450 Protestant clergy of their living and condemned 67 more to the galleys.
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