HUNYADI, LASZLO (1433-1457), Hungarian statesman and warrior, was the eldest son of Janos Hunyadi and Elizabeth Szilagyi. At a very early age he accompanied his father in his campaigns. After the battle of Kosovo (5448) he was left for a time, as a hostage for his father, in the hands of George Branko vie, despot of Serbia. In 1452 he was a member of the deputation which went to Vienna to receive back the Hungarian king Ladis laws V. In 1453 he was ban of Croatia-Dalmatia. At the diet of Buda (1455) he resigned all his dignities, because of the accusa tions of Ulrich Cillei and the other enemies of his house, but a reconciliation was ultimately patched up and he was betrothed to Maria, the daughter of the palatine, Laszlo Garai. After his father's death in 1456, he was declared by his arch-enemy Cillei (now governor of Hungary with unlimited power), responsible for the debts alleged to be owing by the elder Hunyadi to the state; but he defended himself so ably at the diet of Futak (Oct. 1456) that Cillei feigned a reconciliation; but being persuaded by a bribe to surrender his fortress at Belgrade and to accompany the King to Buda, Hunyadi was arrested there on a charge of com passing Ladislaus's ruin, condemned to death without the ob servance of any legal formalities, and beheaded on March 16, 1457. (R. N. B.)