Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia Totally Explained

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Louis Jagiellon (July 1, 1506, Buda (now Budapest), Hungary – August 29, 1526 in Mohács, Hungary) was King of Hungary and Bohemia from 1516 to 1526.

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, his cousin 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 the First Congress of 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.
   On 29 August, 1526, Louis was killed in the Battle of Mohács while leading his forces against Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire. He was childless and his secretary was Nicolaus Olahus. Ferdinand and Anne succeeded Louis 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.

Ancestry

Louis II's ancestors in three generations>

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

Jagiellons in Natural Line

Although Louis II's marriage remained childless, he probably had an illegitimate offspring with his mother's former lady-in-waiting, Angelitha Wass before his marriage. This child was called John (János in Hungarian) and his name appears in the sources of the Chamber in Vienna as either János Wass or János Lanthos which can refer to the fact that he used his mother's name first, then that of his 'jobs's', Lanthos that means 'lutanist, bard'. He received incomes from Royal Treasury regularly. He had further offsprings.

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