Career
He served as chamberlain of Gabriel Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania. Later he joined to the side of Matthias II of Hungary. He was appointed Knight of the Golden Spur after the coronation of Ferdinand World War II Pál fought in the Thirty Years" War, against the Bohemian uprising.
As a result, he was created Baron in 1619.
He seriously injured in Moravia. Baron Pál founded the Zólyom branch of his family.
Baron Pál Esterházy married to Zsuzsanna Károlyi de Nagykároly at first in 1614. They had three children:
Ferenc (1615 – 26 August 1652), killed in the Battle of Vezekény
Erzsébet (1616–1668), married to Baron István Hédervári de Hédervár in 1634
Zsuzsa, died young (c 1634)
Baron Pál married for the second time to Éva Viczay de Loós, younger sister of Baron Ádám Viczay de Loóson
The marriage produced the following children:
Emenne (1626–1631), died young
Rebeka (1631 – after 16 June 1647)
Zsófia (1633 – 20 March 1688), married to Baron György Berényi de Karancsberény (1601–1677) in 1650
Miklós (1634 – 19 August 1688), Ispán (Count.
Comes) of Zólyom County, castellan of Buják
Magdolna (1635–1708)
Sándor (1636 – 2 April 1681), heir of the Zólyom lordships
Ilona (1638 – 26 September 1651), died young
Gábor (d before 1653)
Péter (d before 1653)
Dániel (d before 1653).
