Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia
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Image:IILajos.jpg Louis Jagellion (July 1, 1506 - August 29, 1526) was King of Bohemia and hungary from 1516 to 1526.
Biography
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 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, later the Emperor Ferdinand I.
Louis was killed 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 Janos Szapolyai on one hand and Ferdinand & Anne on the other.
Names in other languages: German:Ludwig II, Czech: Ludvík, Slovak: Ľudovít II, Hungarian: II. Lajos, Croatian: Ludovik II
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