Michael I. Apafi

Michael I. Apafi (* 1632, † April 15, 1690 in Fagaras ) was Prince of Transylvania.

Life

He descended from the ancient Transylvanian noble family Apafi. In 1653 he married the Hungarian magnate daughter Anna Bornemissza which, in addition to his chancellor Michael Teleki (Hungarian Mihaly Teleki ) exercised great influence on the rather weak ruler. He accompanied in his youth the Prince George II Rákóczi on his campaign in Poland and came after his defeat in 1658 in Tatar captivity. He then lived on his inheritance to Ebesfalva (Romanian Ibaşfalău, German Elisabeth city). On September 15, 1661, he was of Ali Pasha of Silistra, used as a prince of Transylvania, by the force of Ali Pasha, convened parliament. Apafi was the opponent to the Habsburg emperor Leopold I supported Prince Johann Kemény. After he had lost in the battle of Nagyszőllős on January 23, 1662 battle and his life, Michael Apafi took over large parts of Transylvania the rule. Until the defeat of the Turks before Vienna in 1683 Michael Apafi was a staunch ally of the Turks. Then he tried the new power situation adjust and entered into negotiations with the Emperor in Vienna. 1687 finally an agreement with Vienna was concluded that Reserve left him authority over his country, but one with which the supremacy of the emperor had to be recognized. In his last years, Michael Apafi fell into a depression, he sought to escape in his watch collection and his library, while the country was at war. He ruled until his death in 1690th for his succession to the competing supported by the Turks Emmerich Thokoly and be elected by the Landtag son Michael II Apafi.

Swell

• Meyers encyclopedia, published by the Bibliographical Institute, Transylvania ( story), p 943, Leipzig and Vienna, Fourth Edition, 1885 to 1892
• Illustration by Mathias van Somer of 1665: Michael Abaffi Princeps Transylvaniae ( digitized )