Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia
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Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia. |
Louis Jagellion (
July 1,
1506 -
August 29,
1526) was King of
Bohemia and
Hungary from 1516 to 1526.
Louis was the son of
Ladislaus V Jagiello and his fourth wife,
Anne de Foix.
His father died in 1516 and 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. When Maximilian I died in 1519, Louis was raised by his legal guardian
Georg von Hohenzollern, margrave of
Brandenburg-
Ansbach.
In 1522 Louis II was married to
Maria of Austria, a
Habsburg princess, granddaughter of
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 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.
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