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{{Short description|Hungarian noblewoman (1659–1716)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Countess Éva Thököly de Késmark
| honorific-suffix    = [[Esterházy|Princess Esterházy of Galántha]]
| image               = File:Portrait of Éva Thököly 1690.jpg
| caption             = Countess Éva Thököly, wife of Prince Paul I of Esterházy, 1690.
| office              = [[Esterházy|Princess Esterházy of Galántha]]
| term_label          = Tenure
| term_start          = 8 December 1687
|term_end             = 21 August 1716
| predecessor         = ''position established''
| successor           = Donna Anna Margherita Tizzone Biandrata
| birth_name          = Countess Éva Thököly de Késmárk
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1659|02|01|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Kežmarok]], [[Kingdom of Hungary]]
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|1716|08|21|1659|02|01|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Lanzendorf]], [[Holy Roman Empire]]
| spouse              = [[Paul I, Prince Esterházy|Paul I, 1st Prince Esterházy of Galántha]]
| children            = 7
| parents             = Count István Thököly<br>Countess Mária Gyulaffy
}}
'''Countess Éva Thököly de Késmárk''' (1 February 1659 in [[Kežmarok]], [[Kingdom of Hungary]] – 21 August 1716 in [[Lanzendorf]], [[Holy Roman Empire]]),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thököly, Eva (1659–1716) – Kaiserhof |url=https://kaiserhof.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/12928/Th%25C3%25B6k%25C3%25B6ly,_Eva_(1659%25E2%2580%25931716) |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=kaiserhof.gwi.uni-muenchen.de}}</ref> was the second wife of [[Paul I, Prince Esterházy]] (married on August 9, 1682).<ref name="Nagy">{{Cite book |last=Nagy |first=Iván |url=https://mek.oszk.hu/09300/09379/pdf/mo_csaladai_11.pdf |title=Magyarország családai czimerekkel és nemzedékrendi táblákkal |year=1865 |volume=11 |location=Pest |pages=287–289 |language=hu |trans-title=Hungarian families with crests and genealogical tables}}</ref> Éva was the youngest daughter of Count {{ill|István Thököly|hu|Thököly István (főúr, 1623–1670)}} and {{ill|Mária Gyulaffy|hu|Gyulaffy Mária}}.<ref name="Nagy" /> She is the sister of [[Emeric Thököly|Imre Thököly]], Prince of [[Transylvania]].<ref name="Nagy" /> Through her marriage, she became the first Princess Esterházy of Galantha in 1687.
==Life==
Éva Thököly was born on February 1, 1659, in Kežmarok. She was born as the sixth child, the youngest of his two sisters. She was a half-orphan from the age of nine months, when he lost his twenty-two-year-old mother.<ref name="Nagy" />
Her father, István Thököly, was a member of the anti-[[Habsburg]] conspiracy organized by Palatine [[Ferenc Wesselényi]] from 1664, which he supported with large sums of money. Therefore, when the conspiracy was liquidated in 1670. At the end of November, the imperial troops led by General Heister besieged him in [[Orava Castle]]. After a two-week siege, the defenders were forced to give up the castle on December 10, after the seriously ill, István Thököly died in the excitement of the siege on December 4. After the death, his son, [[Emeric Thököly|Imré]], his followers escaped from the castle and took refuge in Likava Castle in the [[Liptó County]], together with his two sisters, Katalin and Mária. However, Éva lived through the siege of the castle by her father's side, and after the surrender of the castle, the occupying German troops imprisoned them for a while.
==Marriage==
Éva Thököly was 23 years old on 9 August 1682 when, in [[Kismarton]], she married [[Paul I, Prince Esterházy|Prince Pál Esterházy]],<ref name="Nagy" /> who had been elected [[Palatine]] by the Sopron Parliament the previous year. The marriage could only take place with the permission of the [[Vienna|Viennese]] court, as the young woman was the brother of Imre Thököly, who around this time established his [[Turkey|Turkish]] vassal principality in the eastern part of the Highlands. Through this marriage, most of the Thököly estates came into the possession of the Esterházy family.<ref name=EuWeb>{{Cite web |last=Marek |first=Miroslav |url=http://genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/esterhazy1.html |title=Esterházy de Galántha family |accessdate=23 February 2010 |publisher=GENEALOGY.EU|url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100128084218/http://genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/esterhazy1.html |archivedate=28 January 2010 }}{{Self-published source|date=August 2012}}</ref>
Seven children were born from the marriage, but only two of them reached adulthood:<ref name=EuWeb/>
*Count István Esterházy of Galántha (1683–1683)
*Princess Mária Terézia Anna Esterházy of Galántha (1684–1755)
*Princess Katalin Roza Esterházy of Galántha (1685–1686)
*Princess Franziska Jozefa Esterházy of Galántha (1686–1688)
*{{ill|Joseph I, 3rd Prince Esterházy of Galántha|hu|Esterházy József Antal}} (1688–1721)
*Prince Tamas Ignac Esterházy of Galántha (1689–1689)
*Prince Zsigmond Lipot Esterházy of Galántha (1692–1693)
Palatine Pál Esterházy died on March 26, 1713, in Kismarton. After that, the widowed Countess lived in complete seclusion, mostly spending time in Vienna and Kismarton. At the age of 57, she died on August 21, 1716, in [[Lanzendorf]], a suburb of Vienna. She was buried next to her husband in the family crypt of the Franciscan monastery in Kismarton.
== References ==
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Viskolcz, Noémi. Az öntörvényű palatinusné : Thököly Éva : (1659-1716). Budapest, 2024. ISBN 978-963-636-359-8
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