Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia
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Louis Jagellion (Prague, July 1, 1506 – August 29, 1526 in Mohacs, Hungary) was King of Bohemia and Hungary from 1516 to 1526.
[edit] Biography
Louis was the son of Ladislaus V Jagiellon and his third wife, Anne de Foix.
His father died in 1516 and the minor Louis II ascended to the throne of Hungary and Bohemia upon his father's death. Louis had been adopted by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1515. When Maximilian I died in 1519, Louis was raised by his legal guardian Georg von Hohenzollern, margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
Louis owed allegiance to the Imperial Habsburgs as a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece.
In 1522 Louis II was married to Mary of Habsburg, a Habsburg princess, granddaughter of Maximilian I, as stipulated by an Imperial congress at Vienna in 1515. His sister Anne was married to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, then a governor on behalf of his brother Charles V, and later Emperor Ferdinand I.
Louis died at the Battle of Mohács in 1526. Ferdinand and Anne succeeded him in his Kingdom of Bohemia, but Hungary, largely conquered by the Turks, was further put into succession dispute between John Zápolya on one hand and Ferdinand and Anne on the other.
[edit] Ancestry
| Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia | Father: Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary | Paternal Grandfather: Casimir IV Jagiellon | Paternal Great-grandfather: Jogaila |
| Paternal Great-grandmother: Sophia of Halshany | |||
| Paternal Grandmother: Elisabeth of Austria | Paternal Great-grandfather: Albert II of Germany | ||
| Paternal Great-grandmother: Elisabeth II of Bohemia | |||
| Mother: Anna of Foix-Candale | Maternal Grandfather: Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale | Maternal Great-grandfather: John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal | |
| Maternal Great-grandmother: | |||
| Maternal Grandmother: Infanta Catherine of Navarre | Maternal Great-grandfather: Gaston IV of Foix | ||
| Maternal Great-grandmother: Eleanor of Navarre |
[edit] Names in other languages
- Hungarian: II. Lajos
- German: Ludwig II.
- Czech: Ludvík
- Slovak: Ľudovít II
- Croatian: Ludovik II.
- Polish: Ludwik II.
| Regnal titles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Ladislaus II | King of Bohemia 1516 – 1526 | Succeeded by Ferdinand I |
| King of Hungary 1516 – 1526 | Succeeded by Ferdinand I and János I | |
| King of Croatia and Slavonia 1516 – 1526 | ||
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