Lajos Ernő Batthyány de Németújvár (1696-1765)

Lajos Ernő (Louis Ernest) Batthyány (7 March 1696 - 26 October 1765) was Chancellor and Palatine of Hungary.

Lajos Batthyány was the eldest son of Count Adam Batthyány (1662–1703) and his wife, Eleonore von Strattmann (1672-1741). From 1732 to 1746 he was Chancellor of the Kingdom of Hungary, playing a significant role in the 1741 National Assembly, actively supporting the politicies of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, who had also become Queen of Hungary. In 1751 the national parliament elected him Palatine of Hungary.

Between 1754 and 1755 in Bicske built a magnificent palace that consisted of 24 rooms, all on two floors. Towards the end of his life, he became unpopular because of some of his reforms that increased taxes and made ​​harsher conditions of the serfs. At his death in 1765, in Nagykanizsa was founded a high school with his name, to which he attached 10,000 florins as a contribution. Honours [ edit | edit source ]

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