Pál Kinizsi

Pál Kinizsi (1432–1494) was the most celebrated general of Matthias Corvinus's Black Army, of obscure origins, holder of Nagyvázsony castle from 1472. In October 1479 he and István Báthory won a decisive victory over an Ottoman invasion at the Battle of Breadfield in Transylvania.

From 1484 he was Count of Temes and Captain-General of the southern marches, and he never lost a battle in his career. After Matthias died in 1490 he backed Vladislas II and crushed the Black Army's mutinous remnants. He married Benigna, daughter of Blaise Magyar, suffered a stroke and died in 1494.