Miklós Pálffy

Count Miklós Pálffy ab Erdöd (4 September 1710 – 6 February 1773) was a Court Chancellor and Judge Royal.

Early life Pálffy was born in Vienna on 4 September 1710. He was the son of Count Lipót I József Ignác Kálmán Pálffy (1681–1720) and Countess Mária Antonia Ratuit de Souches.

His father was the eldest son of Count Miklós Pálffy, who was also Judge Royal and the 99th Palatine of the Kingdom of Hungary, and Baroness Katharina Elisabeth von und zu Weichs.

Countess Mária Antónia Jozefa Janka Pálffy (b. 1733), who died young. he married Princess Maria Theresia Anna of Liechtenstein, a daughter of Prince Emanuel of Liechtenstein and Countess Maria Anna Antonia von Dietrichstein-Weichselstädt, in 1763. Countess Mária Anna Jozefa Franciska de Paula Pálffy (1747–1799), who married Count János Baptist Esterhazy de Galántha, youngest son of Count Miklós Esterházy. Count Pál János József Ferenc Benedek Nepomuki János Pálffy (1752–1752), who died in infancy. Countess Franciska Seraphina Mária Janka Jozefa Francika de Paula Pálffy (1753–1778), who married Lajos, 3rd Prince Batthyány-Strattmann, eldest son of Ádám Wenzel, 2nd Prince Batthyány-Strattmann and Countess Mária Terézia Illésházy de Illésháza. Countess Mária Terézia Janka Jozefa Franciska de Paula Mária Anna Pálffy (1760–1833), who married Count István Zichy de Zich et Vásonkeö, a brother of Count Károly Zichy.

Pálffy died in Vienna on 6 February 1773.

Descendants

Through his daughter Franciska, he was a grandfather of Fülöp "Philip", 4th Prince Batthyány-Strattmann (1781–1870)