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FRANCIS I

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 868 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCIS I  ., See also:prince of Transylvania (1645-1676), was the only son of See also:George Rakbczy II. and See also:Sophia See also:Bathory . He was elected prince of Transylvania during his See also:father's lifetime (Feb . 18, 1652), but lost both See also:crown and father at the same See also:time, and withdrew to the See also:family estates, where, at Patak and Makovica, he kept a splendid See also:court . His See also:mother converted him to Catholicism, and on the 1st of See also:March 1666 he married See also:Helen See also:Zrinyi . In 1670 he was implicated in the Zrinyi-Frangepan See also:conspiracy, and only saved his See also:life by the interposition of the See also:Jesuits on the See also:payment of an enormous See also:ransom . See See also:Sandor Szilagyi, The Rdkoczy Family in the 17th See also:Century (Hung.) (Pest, 1861) .

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