Career
When he had to hand over Munkács in 1622 to Gabriel Bethlen because of the Peace of Nikolsburg, he was compensated by the Emperor with 2 new lordships, namely Fraknó (today: Forchtenstein, Austria) and Kismarton (today: Eisenstadt, Austria). The Emperor made him in 1625 Palatine of Hungary, the highest political function in the country. Ha was the father of Ladislaus Esterházy and the later Prince Paul I Esterházy of Galántha.