Mihály Csáky

[3] Mihály studied at the University of Kraków, with the subsidization of his distant relative, Bishop of Transylvania János Gosztonyi between 1521 and 1525.

After that he chose the ecclesiastical career and served in, according to his biographer, Zsigmond Jakó, John Sigismund Zápolya's royal court.

The Diet of Torda (today: Turda, Romania) in 1548 established the council to limit the power of the Frater.

Martinuzzi was hostile to him, because Csáky was a partisan of Isabella, on the other hand the councilor gradually tilted towards, in spite of his former position at the Roman Catholic Church, the Lutheran doctrine.

When Isabella and his son, John Sigismund returned to home in 1556, Csáky began to create the Transylvanian Chancellery, which had been advocated formerly by the Diet of Kolozsvár (today: Cluj-Napoca, Romania) in 1550.

He supported Gáspár Heltai's efforts to translation into Hungarian language of the Bible with large amount of money.

After the election of voivode Stephen Báthory (who later became Prince of Transylvania and King of Poland), Mihály Csáky lost his office and all of his political influence.

He collected a huge fortune towards the end of his life: he acquired the estates of the extinct Czibak family in Bihar County and the Huszt Castle.