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Louis of Hungary. Louis of Hungary may refer to: Louis I of Hungary (king 1342–1382) Louis II of Hungary (king 1516–1526)
Louis I. Louis I may refer to: Louis the Pious, Louis I of France, "the Pious" (778–840), king of France and Holy Roman Emperor. Louis I, Landgrave of Thuringia (ruled 1123–1140) Ludwig I, Count of Württemberg (c. 1098–1158) Louis I of Blois (1172–1205) Louis I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (1173–1231)
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In 1945, Hungarian and German forces in Hungary were defeated by advancing Soviet armies. [5] Approximately 300,000 Hungarian soldiers and more than 600,000 civilians died during World War II, including between 450,000 and 606,000 Jews [6] and 28,000 Roma. [7] Many cities were damaged, most notably the capital Budapest.
King Louis II of Hungary ( Nádasdy Mausoleum, 1664) After his father's death in 1516, the minor Louis II ascended to the throne of Hungary and Croatia. Louis was adopted by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1515. When Maximilian I died in 1519, Louis's cousin George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, became his legal guardian.
Louis I the Great Croatian: Ludovik I) (March 5, 1326, Visegrád – September 10, 1382, Nagyszombat/Trnava) was King of Hungary, King of Croatia, Dalmatia, Jerusalem and Sicily from 1342 and of King of Poland from 1370. Louis was the head of the senior branch of the Angevin dynasty. He was one of Hungary 's most active and accomplished ...
The capital Budapest was encircled by the end of the year, and it would fall in Feb 1945. By Apr 1945, all of Hungary would fall under Soviet control. Between 100,000 and 170,000 ethnic Germans were deported during these final days of war to be forced laborers in the Soviet Union; thousands of them would not survive the ordeal.
Louis I, also Louis the Great or Louis the Hungarian, was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370. He was the first child of Charles I of Hungary and his wife, Elizabeth of Poland, to survive infancy. A 1338 treaty between his father and Casimir III of Poland, Louis's maternal uncle, confirmed Louis's right to inherit the Kingdom of Poland if his uncle died without a ...
