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GEORGE II

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 868 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GEORGE II ., prince of Transylvania (1621-166o), was the eldest son of George I. and Susannah Lorantffy. He was elected prince of Transylvania during his father's lifetime (Feb. 19, 1642), and married (Feb. 3, 1643),
Sophia
  Bathory, who was previously compelled by his
mother
  to reject the Roman faith and turn Calvinist. On ascending the throne (Oct. 11, 1648), his first thought was to realize his father's Polish ambitions. With this
object
  in view, he allied himself, in the beginning of 1649, with the Cossack hetman, Bohdan Chmielnicki, and the hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia. It was not, however, till 1657, as the ally of Gustavus
Adolphus
 , that he led a rabble of 40,000 semi-savages against the Polish king, John Casimir. He took Cracow and entered
Warsaw
  with the Swedes, but the moment his
allies
  withdrew the whole
scheme
  collapsed, and it was only on the most humiliating terms that the Poles finally allowed him to return to Transylvania. Here (Nov. 3, 1657) the diet, at the command of the Porte, deposed him for undertaking an unauthorized war, but in January 1658 he was reinstated by the Medgyes Diet. Again he was deposed by the grand
vizier
 , and again reinstated as if nothing had happened, but all in vain. The Turks again invaded Transylvania, and R6.k6czy died at Nagyvarad of the wounds received at the battle of Gyula (May 166o).
See Imre Bethlen,
Life
  and Times of George Rak6czy II. (Hung.) (Nagy-Enyed, 1829);
Life
  (Hung.) in Sandor Szilagyi's Hungarian Historical
Biographies
  (Budapest, 1891).


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