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After the death of Queen
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tried to persuade Csáky to join to his court, but without any success. When
Isabella and his son, John Sigismund returned to home in 1556, Csáky began to create the Transylvanian Chancellery, which had been advocated formerly by the Diet of
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Following the disclosure of historian József Kemény, the
Romanian historiography believes him as serf-born, but another historian Zsigmond Jakó refuted that information, based on the data of Csáky archives in his study. Jakó 1997, pp.
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in the second phase of his life, but is not known precisely when he converted to
Lutheranism from Roman Catholicism. According to some foreign envoys, he assumed office in the Lutheran Church too.
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According to his contemporaries, he was a very stingy and violent man. He collected a huge fortune towards the end of his life: he acquired the estates of the extinct Czibak family in
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described him as "almighty'. Csáky did not participating in armed conflicts, but he had also influence over military affairs. After the betrayal of
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He was born into a lower noble family around 1492. His father, István Csáky (Csáki) participated in the Diet of 1505 as envoy of
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and János Károlyi. After that he chose the ecclesiastical career and served in, according to his biographer, Zsigmond Jakó,
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affairs. Sometimes he was also responsible for the finances of the principality, when the office of
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as a member of the queen's escort. Meanwhile, Martinuzzi was murdered in
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