Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia

Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia.

Louis Jagellion (July 1, 1506 - August 29, 1526) was King of Bohemia and Hungary from 1516 to 1526.

[edit] Biography

Louis was the son of Ladislaus V Jagiełło and his fourth 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 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 Maria of Austria, a Habsburg princess, granddaughter of Maximilian I, 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.

Names in other languages: German: Ludwig II, Czech: Ludvík, Slovak: Ľudovít II, Hungarian: II. Lajos, Croatian: Ludovik II, Polish: Ludwik II

Preceded by: Ladislaus II	King of Bohemia 1516-1526	Succeeded by: Ferdinand I
Preceded by: Ladislaus II	King of Hungary 1516-1526	Succeeded by: Ferdinand I John Zápolya