page_title: Gabriel Bethlen
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Gabriel Bethlen / Death
context_page_description: Gabriel Bethlen was Prince of Transylvania from 1613 to 1629 and Duke of Opole from 1622 to 1625. He was also King-elect of Hungary from 1620 to 1621, but he never took control of the whole kingdom. Bethlen, supported by the Ottomans, led his Calvinist principality against the Habsburgs and their Catholic allies.
context_section_description: Bethlen died on 15 November 1629. His second wife, Catherine of Brandenburg, became Princess Regnant of Transylvania.
  His first wife, Zsuzsanna Károlyi, had died in 1622. 
  Bethlen's state correspondence survives as an historical document.
caption: Seal of Bethlen
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