Pál Tomori [SEP] position held
Pál Tomori
Pál Tomori (c. 1475 – 29 August 1526) was a Catholic monk and archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary. He defeated an Ottoman army near Sremska Mitrovica () in 1523.
Pál Tomori was elected commander-in-chief (jointly with György Szapolyai) of the Hungarian army in the battle of Mohács in 1526. He died there while trying to stop fleeing soldiers.
Legends.
Many legends and stories exist about him. These include that his wife was killed, causing him to become a
not pay taxes), the Székelys refused to give oxen to the royal officials. The commander of the royal army, Pál Tomori, could only suppress the riot with the assistance of Saxon troops. András Lázár convoked a new general assembly to Agyagfalva (now Lutiţa in Romania), which banished those who had conspired against the monarch and confiscated their landed property.
The leader of the great uprising of the Hungarian peasants in 1514, György Dózsa, was of Székely origin, but the Székely commoners did not support the rebels