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Louis's birth depicted in the Illuminated Chronicle. Born on 5 March 1326, [1] Louis was the third son of Charles I of Hungary and his wife, Elizabeth of Poland. [2] He was named for his father's uncle, Louis, Bishop of Toulouse, canonized in 1317. [3]
At Wartburg Castle in 1220 at age twenty, Louis married 14-year-old Elizabeth of Hungary, [4] with whom he had three children: Hermann II, Sophie, and Gertrude, later abbess at Altenberg. He set up his court at Wartburg Castle near Eisenach.
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.
When Hungary’s Dorottya Redai and Boldizsar Nagy released their new children’s book on Sept. 21, they did not expect their initial run of 1,500 copies to sell out within two weeks. Meseorszag ...
Jadwiga with her mother and sisters, as depicted on Saint Simeon's casket in Zadar. Jadwiga was born in Buda, the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary. [1] She was the third and youngest daughter of Louis I, King of Hungary and Poland, and his second wife, Elizabeth of Bosnia.
[5] [13] At a meeting with Leopold III, Duke of Austria in early 1380, Louis strongly hinted that he would bequeath Hungary to his younger daughter, Jadwiga, who had been engaged to Leopold III's son, William. [14] Upon Louis's demand, a delegation of the Polish noblemen again paid homage to Sigismund and Mary on 25 July 1382. [15]
Baron: 1783, 1799. Two family branches bore the title of baron. The Vays' hereditary seat at the Upper House of the Diet of Hungary was confirmed by Act VIII of 1886. [127] Vécsey (†) 1813 Baron: 1692. The family branch that bore the title of count extinguished in 1879, but the baronial branches survived. [128] Vigyázó (†) 1895
Louis I of Hungary (king 1342–1382) Louis II of Hungary (king 1516–1526) This page was last edited on 18 October 2020, at 11:55 (UTC). Text is available under the ...