György Dózsa, Transylvanian peasant revolt leader (born 1470)

György Dózsa

Leader of the 1514 Hungarian peasants' revolt

György Dózsa was a Székely man-at-arms from Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, who led a peasants' revolt against the kingdom's landed nobility during the reign of King Vladislaus II of Hungary. The rebellion was suppressed, and Dózsa captured, tortured, and executed by being…