GEORGE was FRANCIS II., Prince of vania, born in 1676. His father, FRANCIS I., was elected Prince of Transylvania, but never assumed the office, and died soon after his son's birth. FRANCIS II. was a Protestant, married a princess of Hesse, and in 1701 was imprisoned on an accusation of conspiracy to incite rebellion, but he escaped to Poland, and headed an insur rection in Hungary Leopold 1. (1703). at the time when prince was engaged in the War of the Spanish Succession. Ile soon gained possession of Hungary and Transylvania, his operations being facilitated by subsidies ob tained by Louis XIV. In 1705 the insurgent parts of Hungary united themselves in a con federation, and placed BilkiIczy at the head. He had previously been chosen Prince of Transylvania. In 1708 he was defeated by the Austrians; dissensions sprang up in the confederation, and during his absence in Poland (1711) a treaty of peace was negotiated between Austria and the confederation at Szahniir. This
treaty Francis Rilkoczy never acceded to. He lived in exile in France and Turkey, and died at Rodosto, on the Sea of Marmora. April S. 1735. Consult his Memoires sur les n'rolutions de Hongrie (The Hague, 1739).
RiiKoCZY MARCH. A military air by an unknown composer, popularized by the army of Francis Enkoczy II. of Transylvania. The nun garians adopted it as their national march, and, like the "Marseillaise" in France, it has been placed under the ban of the Austrian (A:vertu:lent at various periods of political excitement. The air most generally known in Germany and else where out of as the 115kiwzy March, which is introduced by Berlioz in his Damnation de Faust, is a weak paraphrase of the original version of Rueziska.