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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.
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Louis II of Hungary (1506–1526), King of Hungary and...
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Louis I, also Louis the Great ( Hungarian: Nagy Lajos;...
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Mar 22, 2024 · Louis II (born July 1, 1506—died Aug. 29, 1526, Mohács, Hung.) was the king of Hungary and of Bohemia from 1516, who was the last of the Jagiełło line to rule those countries and the last king to rule all of Hungary before the Turks conquered a large portion of it. The only son of Vladislas II of Hungary and Bohemia, Louis was sickly as a ...
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Sep 5, 2022 · September 5, 2022. On the partly cloudy summer’s day of 29 August 1526, 30,000 troops led by Louis II, the king of Hungary and of Bohemia, waited near Mohács, a hamlet in southern Hungary. Spread out over six kilometres on a riverside plain of the Danube, they stood ready to prevent the armies of Suleiman I – the Ottoman Sultan commonly ...
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Jul 18, 2016 · Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia the young king, who died at the Battle of Mohács, painted by Titian. Wikipedia / Public Domain. Louis II of Hungary’s reaction was too slow. It took him months to gather an army. It was in July, and the forces of Suleyman were already closing on Belgrade when Louis began preparations.
Aug 8, 2016 · Louis II, 1506–26, king of Hungary and Bohemia (1516–26), son and successor of Uladislaus II.He was the last of the Jagiello dynasty in the two kingdoms. In the face of intensified attacks by Sultan Sulayman I, Louis hastily sought (1526) to unite Hungary and Christendom behind him, but only the pope sent help.
Vladislaus II, also known as Vladislav, [1] [2] Władysław [3] or Wladislas [4] ( Hungarian: II. Ulászló; 1 March 1456 – 13 March 1516), was King of Bohemia from 1471 to 1516 and King of Hungary and of Croatia from 1490 to 1516. As the eldest son of Casimir IV Jagiellon, he was expected to inherit Poland and Lithuania.
