Ernő Kiss [SEP] place of death
Ernő Kiss
Ernő Kiss (13 June 1799, in Temesvár – 6 October 1849, in Arad) was a honvéd (Hungarian Army) lieutenant-general. He was executed for his part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and he is considered one of the 13 Martyrs of Arad. Ernő Kiss was from a Transylvanian family with Armenian roots.
Family.
He was born into a wealthy family partly of Armenian origin. His grandfather was Izsák Kiss who by redeeming the Saxon tithes in Transylvania made useful services to the
treasury. In 1782 for this he earned for himself and his heirs two estates in Torontál County which after his death in 1807 went to the family. His father was Ágoston Kiss and his mother was Anna Bogdanovics who after had been early widowed married later with Ernő Leuven. He had two siblings: Gergely who died in 1815, and a sister Mária who became the wife of István Pejachevich.
His wife was Krisztina Horváth, they had three daughters:
- Ernesztin, who died at the age of seven,