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Ladislaus V, more commonly known as Ladislaus the Posthumous (Hungarian: Utószülött László; Croatian: Ladislav Posmrtni; Czech: Ladislav Pohrobek; German: Ladislaus Postumus; 22 February 1440 – 23 November 1457), was Duke of Austria and King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia.
Ladislaus V, more commonly known as Ladislaus the Posthumous ( Hungarian: Utószülött László; Croatian: Ladislav Posmrtni; Czech: Ladislav Pohrobek; German: Ladislaus Postumus; 22 February 1440 – 23 November 1457), was Duke of Austria and King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia.
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Ladislaus the Posthumous was Duke of Austria and King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. He was the posthumous son of Albert of Habsburg with Elizabeth of Luxembourg. Albert had bequeathed all his realms to his future son on his deathbed, but only the estates of Austria accepted his last will.
In Hungary, he was succeeded by his former rival, the child-king Ladislaus the Posthumous. Appearance and personal life. According to 19th-century sources based on medieval chronicles, Władysław was of medium height, with a swarthy (olive) complexion, dark hair, dark eyes, and possessed a graceful gaze.
Ladislaus III fell against the Turks in the Battle of Varna in present-day Bulgaria in 1444. It was then that Ladislaus, now aged four, was recognized as king. Actual power, however, lay in the hands of the regent János Hunyadi, who officially represented the child-king but was in fact the driving force behind Ladislaus’s waning influence on ...
Ladislaus ‘Postumus’ Duke of Austria (nominally from birth, de facto from 1452); as László V king of Hungary (crowned in 1440, not recognized by the Estates until 1444); as Ladislav I Pohrobek king of Bohemia (crowned in 1453).
