House of Anjou-Hungary - Jadwiga of Poland, Louis I of Hungary, Charles I of Hungary, Mary of Hungary, Charles Martel of Anjou (Paperback)

Chapters: Jadwiga of Poland, Louis I of Hungary, Charles I of Hungary, Mary of Hungary, Charles Martel of Anjou, Catherine of Hungary, Elizabeth of Slavonia, Andrew, Duke of Calabria, Stephen, Duke of Slavonia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 68. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Louis the Great (Hungarian:, Croatian:, Polish:, Slovak:, Italian:, German:, Bulgarian:, Serbian:, Czech: Ludvik I. Veliky, Lithuanian: (5 March 1326, Visegrad 10 September 1382, Nagyszombat/Trnava) was King of Hungary from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370 until his death. (See Titles section) Louis was the head of the senior branch of the Angevin dynasty. He was one of the most active and accomplished monarchs of the Late Middle Ages, extending territorial control to the Adriatic and securing Dalmatia, with part of Bosnia and Bulgaria, within the Holy Crown of Hungary. During his reign Hungary reached the peak of its political influence. He spent much of his reign in wars with the Republic of Venice. He was in competition for the throne of Naples, with huge military success and the latter with little lasting political results. He founded the University of Pecs in 1367, the letter patent issued by pope Urban V Louis was the third son of Charles I of Hungary and Elisabeth of Poland, the daughter of Ladislaus the Short and sister to Casimir III of Poland. He had four brothers and two sisters: In 1342, Louis married his first wife, Margaret (1335 1349), underaged daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, who died while still a minor. He then married his second wife, Elisabeth, daughter of Stephen II of Bosnia, who became Louis's vassal, and Elisabeth of Kuyavia, in 1353 . Her maternal grandfather was Polish Casimir of Kuyavia, son of Ziemomysl of Kuyavia and Salome of Eastern Pomerania. Louis had th...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=38740