Balthasar Manndorff (1574-1628) was a well known mercenary during the Thirty Years' War, Captain in the wars against Italy, and was stabbed to death in 1628 in a duel by a Mr. of Aschau.
Johann Ferdinand Reichsfreiherr von und zu Manndorff (1644-1696) and his wife Anna, born Countess of Hohenwart, left Carinthia as Protestants around 1690 and settled in Hungary (the present Austrian region Burgenland), where they acquired the castles and estates Galoshaza, Nikitsch, and Pilgersdorf.