Ádám Batthyány

Ádám Batthyány (1610–1659) was a Hungarian count of the Batthyány family.^[1] He presided over a period of religious tensions between Protestants and Catholics, which extended to his court. His father had been Calvinist, as had he, but he later became Lutheran and then in 1629 he converted to Catholicism.^[2] At court tensions over religion led Protestant servants to reportedly throw meat into wine on fast days to provoke Catholics.^[3] He also had to manage an occasionally tense border with Ottoman Empire.^[4]

Ádám Batthyány
Portrait of Ádám Batthyány, c. 1650
Born	1610 (1610)
Died	1659 (1660) (aged 49)