Ferenc Geszti

Ferenc Geszti (Hungarian language: Franciscus Gezthy, Hungarian language: Geszti Ferenc/Gezthy Ferencz, Romanian language: Ghesti Freanț , Serbo-Croatian language: Franjo Gesti; 1545–11 May 1595) was a Transylvanian nobleman, the captain of Déva. He belonged to the Geszti family (also Gezthy, Gezti, Gesty, de Gezth). He was a Calvinist. In the beginning of the Long Turkish War (1593–1606) he was one of the main Transylvanian commanders. He and Đorđe Palotić, the Ban of Lugos, helped some Ottoman Christian mutineers at the frontier in the winter of 1593–94; these later grew in numbers and initiated the Uprising in Banat (1594).

References

• Magyarország családai: czimerekkel és nemzékrendi táblákkal. Kiadja Ráth Mór. 1868. pp. 370–. https://books.google.com/books?id=NvkUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA370. 
• Mihály Balázs; Gizella Keserű (2000). György Enyedi and Central European Unitarianism in the 16-17th Centuries. Balassi Kiadó. ISBN 978-963-506-352-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=FPsmAQAAIAAJ.