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| | Louis II -- Encyclopdia Britannica |
 | | Louis II king of Hungary and of Bohemia from 1516, who was the last of the Jagiello line to rule those countries and the last king to rule all of Hungary before the Turks conquered a large portion of it. | | | Louis, the son of King Charles II the Bald, was made king of Aquitaine under his father's tutelage in 867. | | | Louis Skidmore, Nathaniel Owings, and John Merrill formed an architectural firm that after World War II became the leading American designer of skyscrapers and other... |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Louis II (of Hungary and Bohemia) |
| | Louis II (of Hungary and Bohemia), in Hungarian, Lajos II (1506-1526), king of Hungary (1516-1526) and Bohemia (1509-1526), son and successor of King... | | | Mohács, Battle of: death of Louis II of Hungary | | | Hungary : World War II : rescue of Jews: Raoul Wallenberg |
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| | STEPHEN GÁL: HUNGARY AND THE ANGLO-SAXON WORLD |
| | Archbishop Lucas Bánffy, an intimate of King Géza II of Hungary, belonged,in Paris, to the circle of John Salisbury, Thomas Becket, and Walter Mapes. | | | In those days the King of Hungary was still at the height of his power, and the kings of England and of France solicited his intervention in his capacity of ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. | | | Kossuth stayed in the States from December 1851 until June 1852, the various stages of his tour being New York, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Cleveland, St. Louis and New Orleans. |
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| | Andrew II |
| | Saint Elizabeth, daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary - Elizabeth, Saint, 1207–31, daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary and wife of Landgrave Louis... | | | He was the father of St. Elizabeth of Hungary and of Bela IV, his successor. | | | Louis I, king of Hungary - Louis I or Louis the Great,1326–82, king of Hungary (1342–82) and of Poland... |
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| | Louis II - TheBestLinks.com - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia, Louis the German, TheBestLinks.com:Disambiguation, Ludwig II of Bavaria, ... |
| | Louis II - TheBestLinks.com - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia, Louis the German, TheBestLinks.com:Disambiguation, Ludwig II of Bavaria,... | | | Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (1506-1526, reigning 1516-1526) | | | Louis II, Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia, Louis the German... |
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| | Bl. Louis of Thuringia |
| | As was customary among rulers, great or small, in those days, Herman arranged a political betrothal between Louis (aged 11) and Elizabeth, daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary (aged 4), without in any way consulting the little fiancé and fiancée. | | | Blessed Louis of Thuringia was the mate of one of the greatest of lay women saints, Elizabeth of Hungary. | | | But one of the principal factors in making a saint out of Elizabeth of Hungary had been the holiness of her husband. |
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| | elizabeth_of_hungary.txt |
| | She was the daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Andechs-Meran, born in 1207 in Pressburg (Bratislava or Saros-Patak), Hungary. | | | In June of 1227, Louis went on Crusade with Emperor Frederick II in April and in September of that year died from the plague. | | | The two fell in love and despite attempts by members of the court to have Elizabeth returned to Hungary. |
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| | The Titles of the European Rulers |
| | The Pope opposed the election of Andrew III (+1301), and claimed the right to chose the Kings of Hungary. | | | Charles (II) "the Short" of Anjou (+1386), the former Duke of Durazzo and King of Naples, was crowned King of Hungary after Queen Mary I was forced to renounce the throne (1385). | | | In 1292 Charles Martel of Anjou (+1295), the first son of Charles II (+1309), King of Naples, and Mary of Hungary (+1323), was crowned King of Hungary by the Pope's legate. |
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| | Courtly Lives - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor |
| | Maximilian II was the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and King of Bohemia and Hungary. | | | Isabella married Christian II (1481-1531) of Denmark in 1515. | | | The little prince, Louis, was adopted by Maximilian, as his son, in 1515. |
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| | St Elizabeth of Hungary - Generous in her charity for the poor |
| | Elizabeth was born in the year 1207 to Andrew II of Hungary and his wife, Gertrude of Andechs-Meran. | | | To obtain a favorable political alliance, Elizabeth was promised in marriage to Louis (Ludwig), the eldest son of Landgrave Herman of Thuringia and Hesse (now Germany). | | | Vatican II - Impartially discusses what happened at Vatican II -- mostly quotes from the men that were there! |
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| | Titles of European hereditary rulers |
| | In 1347 King Louis I (+1382) invaded the Kingdom of Naples to avenge the murder of his younger brother, Andrew (+1345), consort Joan I, Queen of Naples. | | | The Pope opposed the election of Andrew III (+1301), and claimed the right to chose the Kings of Hungary. | | | The Hungarians who opposed Charles I Robert supported the claims of Wenceslas III, King of Hungary, and then Otto, Duke of Bavaria. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Leopold II, Holy Roman emperor, king of Bohemia and Hungary (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | Leopold II 1747–92, Holy Roman emperor (1790–92), king of Bohemia and Hungary (1790–92), as Leopold I grand duke of Tuscany (1765–90), third son of Maria Theresa. | | | Although he hoped to avoid war with revolutionary France, Leopold instigated (1791) the Declaration of Pillnitz, by which the emperor and the king of Prussia stated that if all other European powers would join them, they were prepared to restore Louis XVI to his lawful powers by force. | | | Having reached an agreement (1790) with Frederick William II of Prussia, who wished to prevent Austrian expansion in the east and was about to side with the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) in its war against Russia and Austria, Leopold abandoned his alliance with the Russian czarina, Catherine II. |
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| | St. James letter |
| | Born in 1207, she had the good fortune of being the daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary. | | | This allows the parish to do in a small way what Elizabeth of Hungary did so well in her time. | | | When she was just 4-years old, her father promised her in marriage to Louis IV of Thuringia. |
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| | thePeerage.com - Name Index 57 |
| | Ladislas I 'the Saint', King of Hungary d. | | | 12th Earl of (William Alexander Louis Stephen) b. | | | 6th Baronet, of Upper Canada (Stephen John) b. |
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| | Charles II of England - encyclopedia article about Charles II of England. |
| | In exchange, Charles agreed to supply Louis with troops and to convert himself to Roman Catholicism "as soon as the welfare of his realm will permit." Louis was to provide him with 6,000 troops to suppress those who opposed the conversion. | | | Charles Edward Stuart Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Silvester Maria Stuart (December 31, 1720 – January 31, 1788), was the exiled claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland, commonly known as "Bonnie Prince Charlie". | | | Charles II's eldest son, the Duke of Monmouth, led a rebellion against James II, but was defeated at the battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685, captured, and executed. |
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| | Ferdinand I, Holy Roman emperor. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | When Anna’s brother Louis II, who succeeded to the thrones of Bohemia and Hungary on his father’s death (1516), was killed at the battle of Mohacs (1526), Ferdinand claimed the succession. | | | In the same year Ferdinand married Anna, daughter of Uladislaus II, king of Hungary and Bohemia, in fulfillment of a treaty (1515) between his grandfather, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and Uladislaus II. | | | He was succeeded by his son, Maximilian II, who had been crowned king of Bohemia (1562) and king of Hungary (1563) and had been elected king of the Romans (1562) before Ferdinand’s death. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Naples |
| | Louis of Hungary came to avenge his brother's death, and drove Joanna from Naples; but he was obliged to return to his country, and after a long war Joanna was restored (1352). | | | Louis III (of Anjou) declared war against her in 1420, on which account she adopted Alfonso V, son of Ferdinand of Aragon and Sicily; but as that prince wished the immediate possession of the kingdom, Joanna adopted Louis III, and after his death in 1434 his brother, René. | | | Alfonso II, knowing the hatred in which he was held, abdicated in favour of his son Ferdinand II; vainly, however, for almost without striking a blow, Charles became master of the kingdom. |
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| | Louis II of Hungary - InfoSearchPoint.com |
| | Louis II of Bohemia was born in 1506 as the son of Ladislaus II of Hungary and Bohemia Jagiello, who died in 1516. | | | The minor Louis II accended to the throne of Hungary and Bohemia upon his father's death. | | | Louis had been adopted by emperor Maximilian I in 1515. |
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| | Ottomans |
| | Son of ibrahim and brother and successor of Suleyman II; his army defeated with great loss at Slankamen (1691) by Louis William I of Baden, resulting in loss of Hungary; further losses to Holy League were complicated by internal unrest. | | | Son of Bayezid II, whom he dethroned in order to seize power; crushed the Shi ite threat of Esma il I by defeating him at Battle of Chaldiran (1514); annexed the Anatolian Kurdish and Turkmen principalities; conquered sections of Persia (1514) and annexed Syria (1516) and Egypt (1517). | | | In league with Janissaries and religious conservatives, overthrew cousin Selim III (1807); ended Selim' s reforms; killed Selim to prevent his restoration; deposed and later murdered on orders of brother and successor Mahmud II. |
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| | Ataman Hotel - Sultan Sleyman the Magnificent |
| | At Mohcs, in August 1526, Sleyman broke the military strength of Hungary, the Hungarian king, Louis II, losing his life in the battle. | | | The vacant throne of Hungary was now claimed by Ferdinand I, the Habsburg archduke of Austria, and by John (Jnos Zpolya), who was voivode (lord) of Transylvania, and the candidates of the native party opposed to the prospect of Habsburg rule. | | | Belgrade fell to him in 1521 and Rhodes, long under the rule of the Knights of St. John, in 1522. |
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| | War Timeline |
| | Louis XIV of France, Elector of Bavaria Joseph Ferdinand, and Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. The dying Charles II of Spain names Philip of Anjou-becomes Philip V (grandson of Louis XIV of France) as his successor. | | | Begins with the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. | | | Romania, Hungary, Finland, and Bulgaria allied with Germany for invasion of USSR which was halted by the USSR winter (1941-1942) |
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| | boys clothing: European royalty -- Turkey |
| | The Jagiellan Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia and most of the Hungarian nobels were killed at the Battle and Louis' brother-in-law, Ferdinand of Austria, future Emperor and brother of the Emperor Charles V, pressed claims to both crowns for the Hapsburgs, ending an independent Hungarian crown. | | | The Austrian reconquest of Hungary begins in 1686 and is completed in 1697, the Austrian Hapsburgs having already inherited the Hungarian crown as a result of Louis II's death at the Battle of Mohács.. | | | The Ottomans suffer another naval defeat at the hands of Venice and Malta, this time in the Dardanelles in 1656. |
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| | Hungary. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | However, as a result of the separation of non-Hungarian territories after World War I, the great slaughter of the Jews in World War II, and the exchange after the war of Slavic and Romanian minorities for their Magyar counterparts, Hungary is today essentially homogeneous. | | | Louis II was defeated and killed by the Turks under Sulayman the Magnificent in the battle of Mohács in 1526. | | | In 1222 the lesser nobles forced the extravagant Andrew II to grant the Golden Bull (the “Magna Carta of Hungary”), which limited the king’s power to alienate his authority to the magnates and established the beginnings of a parliament. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Toulouse |
| | The See of Toulouse was for a time made illustrious by St. Louis (1296-97), son of Charles II, King of Naples and the Two Sicilies, and of Mary, daughter of the King of Hungary: he was nephew of St. Elizabeth of Hungary and grand-nephew of St. Louis King of France. | | | Louis had resigned to his brother Robert all rights over the Kingdom of Naples, and had accepted from Boniface VIII the See of Toulouse after donning the habit of St. Francis. | | | The marriage (1249) of Jeanne, daughter of Raymond VII, with Alphonse de Poitiers, brother of King Louise IX, led to the uniting in 1271 of the County of Toulouse to the Crown of France, and Toulouse became the capital of the Province of Languedoc. |
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| | Salles des Croisades 3 |
| | "Courageous defense of Louis VII, King of France, having lost his escort, in the gorges of Laodicaea in Asia Minor, against Turkish soldiers, 1148" | | | "King Louis VII of France, at the head of lthe army of French crusaders, forces passage of the Meander River in Anatolia, and defeats a Turkish army, 1148" | | | "Marguerite de France (sister of King Philip Augustus), Queen of Hungary (widow of King Bela III of Hungary) herself leads the Hungarians on Crusade, 1196" |
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| | Hungary |
| | However, as a result of the separation of non-Hungarian territories after World War I, the great slaughter of the Jews in World War II, and the exchange after the war of Slavic and Romanian minorities for their Magyar counterparts, Hungary is today essentially homogeneous. | | | Louis II was defeated and killed by the Turks under Sulayman the Magnificent in the battle of Mohács in 1526. | | | In 1222 the lesser nobles forced the extravagant Andrew II to grant the Golden Bull (the “Magna Carta of Hungary”), which limited the king's power to alienate his authority to the magnates and established the beginnings of a parliament. |
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| | Ottomans |
| | Son of ibrahim and brother and successor of Suleyman II; his army defeated with great loss at Slankamen (1691) by Louis William I of Baden, resulting in loss of Hungary; further losses to Holy League were complicated by internal unrest. | | | Son of Bayezid II, whom he dethroned in order to seize power; crushed the Shi ite threat of Esma il I by defeating him at Battle of Chaldiran (1514); annexed the Anatolian Kurdish and Turkmen principalities; conquered sections of Persia (1514) and annexed Syria (1516) and Egypt (1517). | | | In league with Janissaries and religious conservatives, overthrew cousin Selim III (1807); ended Selim' s reforms; killed Selim to prevent his restoration; deposed and later murdered on orders of brother and successor Mahmud II. |
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| | Charles III of Naples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | On the death of Louis I of Hungary, Charles claimed the Hungarian throne as the senior Angevin male, and ousted Louis' daughter Mary of Hungary in December, 1385. | | | However, Joan's adopted heir Louis I of Anjou took possession of the Counties of Provence and Forcalquier and marched on Naples to claim the kingdom, but was defeated by Charles. | | | As the great-grandchild of King Charles II of Naples, he was a second cousin to Queen Joan I (both agnatically) and also adopted by her as a child, since he was the only male of the senior Angevin line of Sicily. |
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| | Mary of Hungary -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Many noblemen of Hungary were opposed to them and they helped (A river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston) Charles of Durazzo (Charles III of Naples, Charles II of Hungary) to become King of Hungary in 1385. | | | Mary of Hungary (in Hungarian and Slovakian: Mária) was the second of three daughters of (Click link for more info and facts about Louis I the Great of Hungary) Louis I the Great of Hungary from the House of (A resident of Anjou) Angevin ((A former province of western France in the Loire valley) Anjou). | | | Mary became Queen of Hungary after her father's death in 1382 (her elder sister Catherine died four years earlier). |
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| | 1403 articles on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Louis III LOUIS III [Louis III] 1403-34, king of Naples (1417-34; rival claimant to Joanna II), duke of Anjou, count of Provence, son and successor of Louis II. | | | Beyazid I BEYAZID I [Beyazid I], 1347-1403, Ottoman sultan (1389-1402), son and successor of Murad I. He besieged Byzantine Emperor Manuel II at Constantinople, then overcame the Turkish rulers in E Anatolia and defeated the army of Sigismund of Hungary (see Sigismund, Holy Roman emperor) at Nikopol. | | | Murad II MURAD II [Murad II] 1403-51, Ottoman sultan (1421-51), son and successor of Muhammad I to the throne of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). |
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