Tamás Nádasdy

Baron Tamás Nádasdy (1498–1562), called the Great Palatine, was a Hungarian statesman educated at Graz, Bologna and Rome. Sent by Louis II to the Diet of Speyer in 1525 for help against the Turks, he returned to learn of the Mohács disaster. Appointed Ferdinand's commandant of Buda in 1527, he went over to John Zápolya and defended it against imperial troops in 1530.

He returned to Ferdinand in 1533 and later defended the southern frontier as Ban of Croatia-Slavonia. In 1540 he became Judge royal, and in 1559 was elected palatine at Pozsony. He founded a school and press at Újsziget and died in 1562.