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Topic: South England flood of February 1287

Imre Thököly, the scion of a rich …

Years: 1680 - 1680

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.