Vladislaus II of Hungary
Vladislaus II | |
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Kingdom of Poland | |
Died | 13 March 1516 Buda, Kingdom of Hungary | (aged 60)
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Spouses | Barbara of Brandenburg (m. 1476; div 1490; legally dissolved 1500) |
Roman Catholic |
Vladislaus II, also known as Vladislav,. Vladislaus tried to reconquer the four provinces with his father's assistance but was repelled by Matthias.
Vladislaus and Matthias divided the
Vladislaus, whose mother, Elizabeth of Habsburg, was the sister of Matthias's predecessor, laid claim to Hungary after Matthias's death. The Diet of Hungary elected Vladislaus king after his supporters had defeated John Corvinus. The other two claimants, Maximilian of Habsburg and Vladislaus's brother, John Albert, invaded Hungary, but they could not assert their claim and so made peace with Vladislaus in 1491. He settled in Buda, which enabled the Estates of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and both Lusatias to take full charge of state administration. As he had in Bohemia, Vladislaus always approved the decisions of the Royal Council in Hungary, hence his Hungarian nickname "Dobzse László" (Czech: král Dobře, Latin: rex Bene – "King Very Well", from Polish: dobrze). The concessions that he had made before his election prevented the royal treasury from financing a standing army, and Matthias's Black Army was dissolved after a rebellion. However, the Ottomans made regular raids against the southern border and after 1493 even annexed territories in Croatia.
Early life
Vladislaus was the eldest son of
Vladislaus was his father's heir in Poland and Lithuania.[12] Casimir IV wanted to prepare all his sons for ruling a realm and tasked renowned scholars with their education.[13] The historian Jan Długosz was Vladislaus's tutor.[14]
Reign
War for Bohemia
After the fifteen-year-old Vladislaus pledged to respect the liberties of the Estates of the realm, the Bohemian Diet elected him king at Kutná Hora on 27 May 1471.[1][22] He was specifically required to acknowledge the existence of two "nations" (the Catholic and Hussite Estates) in his realm in accordance with the Compacts of Basel, although the Holy See had already condemned the Compacts in 1462.[1][22][10] The Holy See regarded Vladislaus's election invalid and the papal legate, Lorenzo Roverella, confirmed Matthias Corvinus's claim to Bohemia on 28 May.[23][22][10] However, Emperor Frederick III refused to acknowledge Matthias as the lawful king of Bohemia.[23]
Vladislaus was crowned king in Prague on 22 August 1471.[23] He could only secure his position with the noblemen's support, because no army had accompanied him to Bohemia.[24] Consequently, the Diet developed into the most influential body of state administration during his reign.[25] The Diet started to work as a legislative assembly and passed decrees that were recorded in specific registers.[25]
Casimir IV also supported Vladislaus.[21] He allowed his second son, Vladislaus's brother Casimir, to invade Upper Hungary (now Slovakia) from Poland after a group of Hungarian barons and prelates offered Casimir the Hungarian throne in late 1471.[13][26][27] Matthias defeated Casimir and forced him to withdraw from Hungary before the end of the year.[21][28] On 1 March 1472, Pope Sixtus IV authorized his legate, Marco Barbo, to excommunicate Vladislaus and his father if they continued to wage war against Matthias.[27] The first truce between Vladislaus and Matthias was signed on 31 May.[29] Their representatives continued negotiations for months, often in the presence of the papal legate who supported Matthias's claims.[21] The Diet elected four noblemen at Benešov in 1473 to administer Bohemia as regents until peace was restored.[24]
The representatives of Casimir IV and Matthias concluded a peace treaty on 21 February 1474.[30] Two days later Vladislaus also agreed to sign a truce for three years.[31][32] Before long, Vladislaus met Frederick III at the Imperial Diet in Nuremberg and persuaded him to make an alliance against Matthias.[31] Casimir IV also joined the coalition.[32] The Polish and Bohemian armies broke into Silesia and besieged Matthias in Wrocław in October.[33] The Hungarian troops cut off the invaders' supply routes, forcing Vladislaus and Casimir to sign a new truce for more than one year on 8 December.[28][34]
The young
Vladislaus's attempt to seize Głogów gave rise to a new conflict.[36] Vladislaus and Frederick III confirmed their alliance against Matthias on 5 December 1476.[37] The papal legate, Baldasare de Piscia, threatened Vladislaus with excommunication if he invaded Matthias's realms.[37] Frederick III installed Vladislaus as king of Bohemia and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire on 10 June 1477.[37][38] Two days later, Matthias declared war against the emperor and invaded Austria.[37][38] Vladislaus sent reinforcements to his ally, but he withdrew his troops from Austria before the end of July.[39] Frederick was forced to acknowledge Matthias as the lawful king of Bohemia on 1 December.[38][39]
Baldasare de Piscia excommunicated Vladislaus and his supporters on 15 January 1478.[40] The representatives of Vladislaus and Matthias started new negotiations, and they reached a compromise that was accepted by both monarchs.[40][1] The right of both Vladislaus and Matthias to use the title of king of Bohemia was confirmed, but only Matthias was required to address Vladislaus as such in their correspondence.[22][31] The Lands of the Bohemian Crown were divided: Vladislaus ruled in Bohemia proper and Matthias in Moravia, Silesia, Upper and Lower Lusatias.[22] The compromise also authorized Vladislaus to redeem the three provinces for 400,000 gold florins after Matthias's death.[31] Matthias and Vladislaus ratified the peace treaty with great pomp and ceremony at a meeting in Olomouc on 21 July 1479.[31]
Conflicts in Bohemia
The Peace of Olomouc enabled the Catholic noblemen who had supported Matthias to return to Bohemia.[41] Vladislaus, who remained a Catholic, decided to strengthen the position of the Catholics in his realm because he needed the support of the Holy See to strengthen his position in Europe.[41] Although he was unable to achieve the restoration of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague,[42] he began replacing the Hussite members of the town councils with Catholic burghers.[41] Two sons of Vladislaus's predecessor, Jindřich and Hynek of Poděbrady, also converted to Catholicism.[43]
Vladislaus's campaign for re-Catholization stirred up the Hussites,[41] and the townspeople in Prague rose up in September 1483.[41] The rebels murdered or expelled all Catholic clerics and aldermen and persecuted the Germans and Jews.[42][44] Vladislaus was also forced to leave the capital.[44] Similar rebellions broke out in Nymburk, Žatec and Hradec Králové.[44] After realizing that he could not send forces against Prague, Vladislaus acknowledged that he was unable to continue his pro-Catholic policy and confirmed the new Hussite aldermen in 1484.[41][44] Vladislaus had a close relationship with the Jewish community, including employing Jewish people such as Abraham of Bohemia.
The success of the revolt of the burghers of Prague brought about a between the moderate Hussite and Catholic noblemen who treated the townspeople with disdain.[41] Vladislaus also urged the noblemen to reach an agreement on religious matters.[43] Their compromise was confirmed at the Diet in Kutná Hora in March 1485, with acknowledging the right of both noblemen and commoners to freely adhere either to Catholicism or to Utraquism during the following 31 years.[41][43]
Frederick III failed to invite Vladislaus and Matthias to the Imperial Diet at Frankfurt, where his son, Maximilian, was elected King of the Romans on 16 February 1486.[42][45] Frederick's omission offended both kings of Bohemia who made an alliance against the emperor at a meeting in Jihlava on 11 September.[42][45] The meeting also created an opportunity to discuss other issues of common interest, especially the circulation of money in their realms.[42] Vladislaus pledged to send reinforcements to Matthias to fight against Frederick III, but his advisors convinced him not to keep his promise.[42] The Diet of Bohemia also urged him to make peace with the emperor and the prince-electors in June 1487.[46] In the same year, Pope Innocent VIII lifted the excommunication and recognized Vladislaus as king of Bohemia.[1]
Matthias Corvinus confiscated large estates in his realms and granted them to his illegitimate son, John Corvinus, because he wanted to make John his heir.[42][47] The sons of George of Poděbrady were among the barons who lost their estates to John Corvinus, which annoyed Vladislaus because some estates were located in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown.[42] Vladislaus sought his father's assistance, and they made a formal alliance against Matthias on 23 April.[42][46] Matthias forced Jan II of Żagań to renounce Głogów in favor of John Corvinus in spring 1489.[48] Before long, Vladislaus made peace with Emperor Frederick, but the emperor's son, Maximilian, started peace negotiations with Matthias.[48]
War for Hungary
Matthias Corvinus died unexpectedly in
Most Hungarian barons and prelates preferred Vladislaus, because his rule in Bohemia had indicated that he would respect their liberties.
Vladislaus was crowned king on 18 September in Székesfehérvár.[53] In accordance with the promise he made after his election, he settled in Buda.[56] In his absence, Bohemia was administered by the great officers of state, especially the Burgrave of Prague and the Chancellor.[25] Moravia, Silesia and Lusatia had acknowledged his rule soon after Matthias Corvinus's death.[25][56] Although Vladislaus pledged that the three provinces would be attached to the Hungarian Crown until the money stipulated in the Peace of Olomouc was paid to the Hungarian treasury, the Estates of the Bohemian Crown argued that the personal union under his rule made that stipulation void.[58] The 400,000 gold florins were never paid.[56][58]
John Albert did not renounce Hungary after Vladislaus's coronation.[59] He captured Eger and laid siege to Kassa (Košice in Slovakia) in September.[57] Vladislaus married Beatrice of Naples in Esztergom on 4 October, but the marriage was kept secret, although she gave considerable funds to him to finance his campaigns for Hungary.[56][57] Maximilian of Austria also invaded Hungary and seized Szombathely, Veszprém and Székesfehérvár by the end of November.[57] Vladislaus's supporters relieved Kassa in early December, and Maximilian withdrew from Hungary before the end of the year, because he could not finance his campaign.[56] John Albert renounced his claim to Hungary in exchange for the Duchy of Głogów and the suzerainty over half of Silesia on 20 February 1491.[59][60] John Albert again broke into Hungary in autumn, but Stephen Zápolya forced him to withdraw.[60]
Vladislaus's troops had meanwhile expelled the army of Maximilian of Austria from Hungary.[60] In the Peace of Pressburg, signed on 7 November, Vladislaus renounced all territories that Matthias Corvinus had conquered in Austria and also acknowledged the Habsburgs' right to inherit Hungary and Bohemia if he died without a son.[60][56] Stephen Zápolya routed John Albert at Eperjes (Prešov in Slovakia) on 24 December, forcing him to abandon his claim to Hungary.[60]
New regime in Hungary
Although
Casimir IV died on 7 June 1492 after bequeathing Poland and Lithuania to Vladislaus's younger brothers, John Albert and Alexander, respectively.[65] Vladislaus laid claim to Poland, but the Polish noblemen elected John Albert king on 27 August.[65] Vladislaus had inherited an almost empty treasury from Matthias and he was unable to raise money to finance his predecessor's Black Army (a standing army of mercenaries).[66] The unpaid mercenaries rose up and pillaged several villages along the Sava River.[55][67] Paul Kinizsi routed them in September.[67] Most mercenaries were executed and Vladislaus dissolved the remnants of the army on 3 January 1493.[67][68]
The Ottomans began to make regular raids against Hungary along the southern border.[69] An Ottoman army inflicted a crushing defeat on the united army of the leading Croatian barons in the Battle of Krbava Field on 11 September 1493.[70][71] The Ottomans annexed the Adriatic coast to the north of the river Neretva as far as Omiš.[71] A few months later, the Croatian noblemen assembled at Bihać and tried to seek assistance from Pope Alexander VI and Maximilian of Habsburg.[71]
Nevertheless, Vladislaus was still regarded as the head of a powerful state, especially because he and his two brothers ruled the most powerful states in Central Europe.[70][72] They met in Lőcse (Levoča in Slovakia) in April 1494 to achieve a common foreign policy, but Vladislaus and John Albert did not reach a compromise about Moldavia and Silesia.[72][59][73] Vladislaus levied an extraordinary tax, or "subsidy", without the authorization of the Diet in spring 1494.[68][73] The noblemen protested against the tax all over the kingdom.[68] Lawrence Újlaki, who was one of the wealthiest barons in Hungary, ordered the murder of a tax-collector and called Vladislaus an ox.[72][70] Vladislaus accused Újlaki of co-operation with the Ottomans and launched a military campaign against him, compelling him to beg for mercy in early 1495.[70][74] Újlaki was allowed to retain his most estates.[70] The representatives of Vladislaus and the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II signed a truce for three years in April 1495,[75] but Ottoman raids across the borders continued in Croatia.[71]
The Estates accused Vladislaus's treasurer, Sigismund Ernuszt, of embezzlement at the Diet in May 1496.[69] At the Diet's demand, Vladislaus ordered the arrest of Ernuszt and his deputy.[76] Ernuszt was released only after paying a ransom of 400,000 gold florins.[76]
Vladislaus visited Bohemia in the first half of 1497.[77] After his return, the Diet persuaded him to forbid the unpopular Tamás Bakócz to use the royal seals, but Bakócz remained the arch-chancellor.[78] The royal seals were entrusted to George Szatmári, who was the Thurzós' close ally.[78] Pope Alexander made Bakócz Archbishop of Esztergom on 20 December.[77]
Ottoman threat
Vladislaus rewarded the Estates of Slavonia (the "shield of Hungary" against the Ottomans) with a separate coat-of-arms at the end of 1497.[77][71] The truce with the Ottoman Empire came to an end in 1498.[70] The 1498 Diet of Hungary sanctioned the introduction of a one-florin ordinary tax, stipulating that the landowners could retain half of the tax to pay their own retainers.[68] A decree obliged the wealthiest barons and prelates to set up their own armies.[68] Another decree prescribed that the Royal Council could only make decisions if at least eight elected noble jurors of the royal courts attained the meeting.[77] The Diet also passed laws that increased the noblemen's income at the expense of Church revenues and limited the economic privileges of the towns and townspeople.[79]
Vladislaus made an alliance with John Albert and
During his reign (1490–1516), the Hungarian royal power declined in favour of the Hungarian magnates, who used their power to curtail the peasants’ freedom.[82] His reign in Hungary was largely stable, although Hungary was under consistent border pressure from the Ottoman Empire and went through the revolt of György Dózsa. On 11 March 1500, the Bohemian Diet adopted a new land constitution that limited royal power, and Vladislav signed it in 1502 (hence it is known as Vladislav land order).[83] Additionally, he oversaw the construction (1493–1502) of the enormous Vladislav Hall atop the palace at the Prague Castle.
Vladislaus died on 13 March 1516, two weeks after his 60th birthday, in the city of Buda. His funeral was held six days later in the main cathedral of the city of Székesfehérvár, where all the Kings of Hungary used to be buried. His son was previously crowned as King of Hungary in 1508 and in 1509 as King of Bohemia before his father died, so the succession was assured. Before he died, Vladislaus called Tamás Bakócz, John Bornemissza, and George Hohenzollern, and named them the bearers and custodians of the young prince Louis. The monarch left a Kingdom in political ruins with a debt of 403,000 Hungarian florins.[citation needed]
Family
Ancestors of Vladislaus II Barbara of Celje[90] | |||||||||||||
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Vladislaus II was married three times, the first time in 1476 at
After his death, Vladislaus' ten-year-old son Louis succeeded him on the thrones of both Bohemia and Hungary. His daughter Anna was married in 1515 to the future emperor Ferdinand of Austria, a grandson of Emperor Maximilian I. Therefore, after the death of Louis at the Battle of Mohács, the succession devolved through Anna to the cadet line of eastern Habsburgs.
Titles
His titles according to the laws in 1492: King of Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Rama, Serbia, Galicia, Lodomeria, Cumania and Bulgaria, Prince of Silesia and Luxembourg, Margrave of Moravia and Upper-/Lower Lusatia.[92]
See also
- List of rulers of Bohemia
- List of rulers of Hungary
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