wounded several times.After the war, he resumed his diplomatic activities and persuaded the Hungarian and Croat nobility to accept the Pragmatic Sanction. In the Austro-Turkish War, 1737–1739, he received command of an army corps of 30,000 men, but saw no action. After the death of Emperor Charles VI in 1740, he became protector of the young Empress Maria Theresa and her councilor, mainly in Hungarian affairs. He became Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece and Palatine of Hungary. Pálffy remained for the rest of his life a confidant of the Empress, who called him affectionately Vater Palffy. He died in 1751. Personal life He married Countess Teréz Czobor de Czoborszentmihály on 4 October 1687, the couple had several children. After the death of his first wife, he married Countess Maria Julia von Stubenberg on 28 August 1741. This marriage was without children. External links Biography (in German) 1664 births 1751 deaths 17th-century Hungarian people 18th-century Hungarian people Hungarian nobility Field marshals of Austria Bans of Croatia Palatines of Hungary Judges royal Burials at St. Martin's Cathedral, Bratislava Knights of the Golden Fleece of Austria Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718) Rákóczi's War of Independence