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- BIOGRAPHY
Rudolf, Freiherr Khuen von Belasi zu Lichtenberg, was born on 27 June 1535, the son of Jakob Khuen von Belasi and Maria Magdalena Fuchs von Fuchsberg. With his wife Magdolna Pálffy ab Erdöd, daughter of Peter, Baron Pálffy ab Erdöd, and Zsofia Sersffy de Szerdahely, and older sister of the powerful and highly respected Hungarian politician and military commander Miklos II, Graf Pálffy ab Erdöd, he had two children, Johann and Anna Susanna, who would have progeny. Anna Susanna married Leonhard Helfried, Graf von Meggau.
Rudolf was a privy councillor and master of the horse for emperors Maximilian II and Rudolf II. On 8 May 1573 Maximilian II raised Rudolf, his brothers Johann and Jakob, and their first cousin Blasius, son of their uncle Mathias, and their descendants, to the status of Freiherr, as 'Khuen von Belasi zu Lichtenberg, Freiherren auf Neuen Lempach' (Neulengbach in Lower Austria, which had been mortgaged to Rudolf in 1567).
Rudolf died in Vienna on 29 June 1581, and was buried in the family crypt he founded in the Church of St. Dorothea in Vienna. His widow married János Balassa de Gyarmat; she died on 4 February 1623.
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