LADISLAS, lad'Is-las. or LADISLAUS (Bung. Lris.:/d, and for the kings of Thdand and 13(phemia Chiszhi). The name of several kings of 'Hungary. of whom one ruled also over Po land and two over Bohemia.—Lainsi.as I., TILE SAINT (died 1095), was the son of 1;6Ia 1., and, after acquiring fame by his victories over the Cum,Ins, succeeded his brother Gejza as King of Hungary in 1077. He subdued the Croatians (10(1) and established the Christian religion among them. He forced the Cumans likewise to embrace Christianity. He died in the midst of preparations for a crusade to the holy• Land. and was eanonized by Pope Celestine 111. in 1198, —Lamsr..As IV.. surnamed the Curran, succeeded his father. Stephen 1V., in 1272. Ile attacked the Outlaw.; and defeated them: hut. reinfilreed by hordes of the Nogai Tatars. they swept over Hungary in a wave of invasion (1285), and was forced to make terms with them. Ile adopted some of their customs and put away his wife to marry one of their princesses. He was assassinated by a Cuman in 1290.-1,Ains LAS (fladislas), King of Hungary (1440.44)
and Poland (1434-44).. See LamsLas ill., King of Poland.—Larasuts VT. (V.), POSTIIV X:S. King of Hungary and Bohemia. lie was the posthumous son of Albert IL. the third Hapsburg King of Germany, by Elizabeth. the heiress of the Emperor Sigismund. and was born in 1440. Ile was King of Bohemia from his birth, and at the age of live was Made King of Hungary. His guardian, the Emperor Frederick 11 I. (of the House of Austria), would not allow him to re pair to his realms until he had reached the age of about thirteen years. The great general altos Hunyady (q.v.) conducted the government of Hungary during the minority of Ladislas, while in Bohemia the government passed into the hands of George Podiebrad (q.v.). Ladislas died in 1437, in his eighteenth year.-1,AnisLas (Ulad islas) V1I. a V1.) was ((levied King of 'Hungary in 1490. nineteen years after his accession to the throne of Bohemia. He died in 131?1. and was succeeded by his son. Louis II. his daugh ter Anna married Ferdinand 1. of Hapsburg.