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- Louis I, the King of Hungary and Croatia and King of Poland, was considered for centuries in Hungarian historiography as the most powerful monarch of Hungary. His long-reign was marked with several campaigns including against Naples.
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The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen I at Esztergom around the year 1000; his family (the Árpád dynasty) led the monarchy for 300 years.
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Louis I, the King of Hungary and Croatia and King of Poland, was considered for centuries in Hungarian historiography as the most powerful monarch of Hungary. His long-reign was marked with several campaigns including against Naples.
- Saint Stephen I. The founder of the Kingdom of Hungary, Stephen, was the first King of Hungary, and his long reign laid down the foundations of the Christian kingdom that was to last for nearly a millennia.
- Bela IV. Known as the second founder of the kingdom, Bela was the king of Hungary when the Mongols invaded the country in 1241-42. Thanks to his conflicts with the country's barons, he failed to mobilize the entirety of his kingdom's workforce against the Mongols and suffered a devastating defeat at the Battle of Mohi in 1241.
- Charles I. The last decades of the 13th century saw Hungary plunged into anarchy under the rule of a series of short-lived and weak kings who followed Bela IV on the throne, royal power was fatally weakened, and the barons became strong enough to rival their ruler.
- Sigismund of Luxembourg. Charles was followed on the throne by his son Louis. Unfortunately for the kingdom, Louis had no sons of his own to follow him and the period following Louis’s death saw the kingdom plunged into anarchy once again as different groups of nobles supported different candidates for the throne.
- Stephen I of Hungary. Stephen I of Hungary’s year of birth is not known but is suspected to have been around 975 AD. He was the last Grand Prince of Hungarians between 997 and 1000 and the first King of Hungary from around 1001 until he died in 1038.
- Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor. This was one of the most charismatic kings that ever ruled Hungary, he was so friendly that he even took part in tournaments in the kingdom.
- Charles I of Austria. Charles I of Hungary was the last emperor of Russia, the last King of Hungary, the last king of Bohemia, and the last House of Habsburg-Lorraine Monarch before Austria Hungary was dissolved.
- Béla IV of Hungary. Béla was the eldest of his father’s children and because of that, he was a group of noblemen from his father King Andrew II in 1214.
The last strong Hungarian king was Matthias Corvinus (r. 1458–90), the son of John Hunyadi. His accession represented the first time in the history of the medieval Hungarian kingdom that a member of the nobility without dynastic ancestry mounted the royal throne.
Rákóczi, who belonged to one of the most powerful Hungarian noble families in the kingdom, and his forces (known as Kuruc) gained control over most of the realm from the Habsburgs and their Hungarian allies (known as Labanc) for various periods of time between 1703 and 1711 (see Kuruc vs. Labanc).
