Vay Ádám (1657-1719)

I've just added one more famous Hungarian figure to my page:

Vay Ádám (1657-1719)

Ádám, the son of Vay Péter and Zoltán Anna, was born on 11 May 1657 in the family’s castle in Vay (today Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county). Two of his brothers, Ábrahám and Mihály, were later also involved in the Kuruc movements.

Ádám first studied at the Reformed College in Sárospatak, but due to illness, he left the school in 1667. He then studied at home but did not complete secondary school. In 1675, he briefly joined the Kuruc troops, but soon found himself in the Danube region, where he served at the court of Batthyány Kristóf and other lords.

He then went to Fülek, where he served as a lieutenant in the castle. Here he met Erzsébet, the daughter of the vice-captain of Fekete László, whom he married on 4 May 1679.

When the Kuruc-Turkish-Transylvanian armies took Fülek in September 1682, Vay Ádám rejoined the Kuruc forces, and Thököly Imre later made him captain of one thousand men and Kisvárda Castle’s commander.

In 1684, he was appointed by the prince as commissar of the Crimean Tatar troops assigned to the Kuruc forces, an assignment that damaged his reputation as the Tatars savagely ravaged the Upper Tisza River region.

Read more about his life on my page:

https://www.hungarianottomanwars.com/vay-adam/