Career
He served as Hereditary Lord Lieutenant (Count. Supremus et perpetuus comes) of Szepes County. He was commander of the Hungarian Royal Army, along with Archbishop of Kalocsa Pál Tomori, at the Battle of Mohács, where he disappeared and presumably died.
Court chaplain Miklós Tatai believed that Zápolya murdered King Louis II of Hungary, who escaped from the battle, in the house of the vicar in Dunaszekcső.
Historians do not accept this report as credible.