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Ladislaus the Posthumous
Anonymous painting, 1457
King of Hungary and Croatia
Reign	10 November 1444 – 23 November 1457
Predecessor	Vladislaus I
Successor	Matthias I
King of Bohemia
Reign	18 October 1453 - 23 November 1457
Coronation	28 October 1453, Prague
Predecessor	Albert
Successor	George
Born	(1440-02-22)22 February 1440 Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary
Died	23 November 1457(1457-11-23) (aged 17) Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia
Burial	St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague
House	House of Habsburg
Father	Albert II, King of the Romans
Mother	Elizabeth of Luxembourg

Ladislaus the Posthumous (22 February 1440 – 23 November 1457) was Duke of Austria from 1440, King of Hungary (as Ladislaus V) from 1444 and King of Bohemia from 1453.

Biography

The only son of Albert II, King of the Romans, and Elizabeth of Luxembourg, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. He was called Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) (Template:Lang-cs, Template:Lang-hu, Slovenian and Template:Lang-hr) because he was born at Komárom (then part of Hungary, now Komárno in Slovakia), four months after his father's death. He succeeded immediately as Duke of Austria and head of the House of Habsburg, and he also became nominal King of Bohemia. But his second cousin Frederick V, ruler of Inner Austria, was chosen to succeed Albert II as King of the Romans.

The estates of Hungary elected Vladislaus III of Poland as King Vladislaus I in succession to Albert II; but the infant Ladislaus's mother had the Holy Crown of Hungary stolen from its guardians at Visegrád and brought to Wiener Neustadt by a lady of the court, Helene Kottannerin. According to legend, the cross on the crown is askew because it was damaged in transit as a result. Elisabeth arranged for Ladislaus to be crowned at Székesfehérvár on 15 May 1440.

For safety's sake, she placed Ladislaus under the guardianship of his Habsburg relative Frederick V, who proceeded to hold him as a virtual prisoner in Schloss Ort and rule Austria himself. On the death of Vladislaus I at the Battle of Varna on 10 November 1444, the Hungarian estates, despite considerable opposition, elected Ladislaus Postumus as their king and sent a deputation to Vienna to induce Frederick to surrender the child and the Holy Crown, which he refused to do. In the meantime, John Hunyadi acted as regent for Ladislaus in Hungary, while George of Poděbrady performed the same office in Bohemia.

From 1450 the pressure of the Austrian estates to free Ladislaus grew. In 1452, they entered into the Mailberg Confederation under the leadership of de [Ulrich, Baron of Eyczing], and Ulrich II, Princely Count of Celje, and freed Ladislaus by force. Ulrich of Celje, a Slovenian magnate and heir to Bosnia, the cousin of Ladislaus's mother, prevailed against Eyczing and became the new guardian of the child, effectively ruling in his stead.

On 28 October 1453, at the age of thirteen, Ladislaus Postumus was finally crowned King of Bohemia, after which he lived mainly in Prague or Vienna. Ulrich of Celje and Ladislaus remained indifferent to the threat posed in Hungary by the Turks, and Ulrich became increasingly hostile towards John Hunyadi (Template:Lang-hu), who was bearing the main burden of the battles against the Ottomans. On the death of Hunyadi, Ladislaus made Ulrich governor of Hungary in October 1456 at the Diet of Futtak. After the Siege of Belgrade, Ulrich was killed by Ladislaus Hunyadi (Template:Lang-hu). Ladislaus appointed the young Hunyadi as Lord Treasurer and capitan-general of the kingdom. After Hunyadi traveled to Buda to accept the new positions, Ladislaus ordered him to be beheaded on 16 March 1457 for unproven allegations of plotting against the crown and without the standard due process. This was not approved very much in Hungary, and it raised such a storm that the king had to flee to Prague, where he spent the last months of his life.

He died suddenly in Prague on 23 November 1457 while preparing for his marriage to Magdalena of Valois, daughter of Charles VII of France. It was rumored at the time that his political opponents in Bohemia had poisoned him; but in 1998 an examination of his remains showed that that Ladislaus died of juvenile leukemia, not a recognized disease in that period.

Ladislaus's cousins Frederick V and Albert VI succeeded him in Austria; Hungary elected Matthias Corvinus, the brother of Ladislaus Hunyadi, as king; and Bohemia elected George of Poděbrady, the only Hussite ruler of that kingdom.

Gallery

• Wedding painting of Ladislaus and Magdalena of Valois
• Ladislaus and Ulrich II, Princely Count of Celje

Ancestors

Titles

King of Bohemia, Hungary, Dalmatia, Croatia, Rama, Serbia, Cumania, Bulgaria, Galicia and Lodomeria; Duke of Austria; Margrave of Moravia and Lusatia; Prince of Silesia

See also

• Hofamterspiel

References

1. Ladislas V, Encyclopædia Britannica
2. Ladislaus V, Questia Online Library

Sources

• Bijvoet, Maya C. (1987). "Helene Kottanner: The Austrian Chambermaid". In Wilson, Katharina M. (ed.). Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation. University of Georgia Press. pp. 327–349. ISBN 0-8203-0866-8. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Buttlar, Gertrud (1986). Die Belagerung des Ladislaus Postumus in Wiener Neustadt, 1452 (in ge). Bundesverlag. ISBN 3-215-06263-1. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
• Rüther, Andreas (2004). "Königsmacher und Kammerfrau im weiblichen Blick. Der Kampf um die ungarische Krone (1439/40) in der Wahrnehmung von Helene Kottaner ". In von Jörg, Rogge (ed.). Fürstin und Fürst. Familienbeziehungen und Handlungsmöglichkeiten von hochadeligen Frauen im Mittelalter (in ge). Ostfildern. pp. 225–247. ISBN 3-7995-4266-3. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
• Schmid, Barbara (2007). "Raumkonzepte und Inszenierung von Räumen in Helene Kottanners Bericht von der Geburt und Krönung des Königs Ladislaus Postumus (1440–1457)". In Kundert, Ursula; Schmid, Barbara; Schmid, Regula (eds.). Ausmessen-Darstellen-Inszenieren. Raumkonzepte und die Wiedergabe von Räumen in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit (in ge). Chronos. pp. 113–138. ISBN 978-3-0340-0852-5. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
• Schmolinsky, Sabine (1998). "Zwischen politischer Funktion und Rolle der "virgo docta": Weibliche Selbstzeugnisse im 15. Jahrhundert". In McDonald, William C. (ed.). Fifteenth Century Studies, Volume 24 (in ge). Camden House. pp. 63–73. ISBN 1-57113-266-x. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
• Wenzel, Horst (2002). "Zwei Frauen rauben eine Krone. Die denkwürdigen Erfahrungen der Helene Kottannerin (1439–1440) am Hof der Königin Elisabeth von Ungarn (1409–1442)". In Schulte, Regina (ed.). Der Körper der Königin. Geschlecht und Herrschaft in der höfischen Welt seit 1500 (in ge). Campus Verlag. pp. 27–48. ISBN 3-593-37112-x. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

[REDACTED] Media related to Ladislas the Posthumous at Wikimedia Commons

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Přemyslid	Legendary Czech Krok Libuše Přemysl the Ploughman Valasca Nezamysl Mnata Vojen Vnislav Křesomysl Neklan Hostivít c. 870–1198 (Dukes) Bořivoj I Spytihněv I Vratislaus I Saint Wenceslaus Boleslaus I Boleslaus II Boleslaus III Vladivoj Boleslaus the Brave Jaromír Oldřich Bretislaus I Spytihněv II Vratislaus II (I) Conrad I Bretislaus II Bořivoj II Svatopluk the Lion Vladislaus I Sobeslaus I Vladislaus II (I) Frederick Sobeslaus II Frederick Conrad II Otto Wenceslaus II Ottokar I Henry Bretislaus Vladislaus III Henry 1198–1306 (Kings) Ottokar I Wenceslaus I Ottokar II Wenceslaus II Wenceslaus III
Non-dynastic	1306–1310 Henry the Carinthian Rudolph I
Luxembourg	1310–1437 John the Blind Charles IV (I) Wenceslaus IV Sigismund
Habsburg	1437–1457 Albert Interregnum Ladislaus the Posthumous
Non-dynastic	1457–1471 George Matthias I
Jagiellonian	1471–1526 Vladislaus II Louis
Habsburg	1526–1780 Ferdinand I Maximilian Rudolph II Matthias II Ferdinand II Frederick Ferdinand III Ferdinand IV Leopold I Joseph I Charles II Charles Albert (II) Maria Theresa
Habsburg-Lorraine	1780–1918 Joseph II Leopold II Francis II (I) Ferdinand V Francis Joseph Charles I (III)
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Family tree
House of Árpád	Grand Princes Álmos (c. 850–c. 895) Árpád (c. 895–c. 907) Zoltán (c. 907–c. 947) Fajsz (c. 947–c. 955) Taksony (c. 955–c. 972) Géza (c. 972–997) Stephen (997–1000) Kings Stephen I (1000–1038) Peter (1038–1041; 1044–1046) Samuel (1041–1044) Andrew I (1046–1060) Béla I (1060–1063) Solomon (1063–1074) Géza I (1074–1077) Ladislaus I (1077–1095) Coloman (1095–1116) Stephen II (1116–1131) Béla II (1131–1141) Géza II (1141–1162) Stephen III (1162–1172) Ladislaus II (1162–1163) Stephen IV (1163–1165) Béla III (1172–1196) Emeric (1196–1204) Ladislaus III (1204–1205) Andrew II (1205–1235) Béla IV (1235–1270) Stephen V (1270–1272) Ladislaus IV (1272–1290) Andrew III (1290–1301)
House of Přemysl	Wenceslaus (1301–1305)
House of Wittelsbach	Otto (1305–1307)
Capetian House of Anjou	Charles I (1308–1342) Louis I (1342–1382) Maria (1382–1385; 1386–1395) Charles II (1385–1386)
House of Luxembourg	Sigismund (1387–1437)
House of Habsburg	Albert (1437–1439) Ladislaus V (1440–1457)
House of Jagiellon	Vladislaus I (1440–1444)
House of Hunyadi	Matthias I (1458–1490)
House of Jagiellon	Vladislaus II (1490–1516) Louis II (1516–1526)
House of Zápolya	John (1526–1540) John Sigismund (1540–1570)
House of Habsburg	Ferdinand I (1526–1564) Maximilian (1564–1576) Rudolph (1576–1608) Matthias II (1608–1619) Ferdinand II (1619–1637) Ferdinand III (1637–1657) Ferdinand IV (1647–1654) Leopold I (1657–1705) Joseph I (1705–1711) Charles III (1711–1740) Maria Theresa (1740–1780)
House of Habsburg-Lorraine	Joseph II (1780–1790) Leopold II (1790–1792) Francis (1792–1835) Ferdinand V (1835–1848) Francis Joseph (1848–1916) Charles IV (1916–1918)
Debatable or disputed rulers are in italics.

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