See also:COUNT OF See also:ULRICH See also:CILLI (1406-1456)
, son of See also:Frederick II., See also:count of See also:Cilli, and See also:Elizabeth Frangepan
.
Of his youth we know nothing certain
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About 1432 he married See also:Catherine, daughter of See also:George Brankovich, See also:despot of See also:Servia
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His See also:influence in the troubled affairs of See also:Hungary and the See also:Empire See also:early 'Overshadowed that of his See also:father, together with whom he was made a See also:prince of the Empire by the See also:emperor See also:Sigismund (1436)
.
Hence feuds with the Habsburgs, wounded in their rights as overlords of Cilli, ending, however, in an See also:alliance with the See also:Habsburg See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king See also:Albert II., who made See also:Ulrich for a See also:short while his See also:lieutenant in Bohemia
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After Albert's See also:death (1439) Ulrich took up the cause of his widow Elizabeth, and presided at the See also:coronation of her See also:infant son See also:Ladislaus V
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Posthumus (1440)
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'A See also:feud with the Hunyadis followed, embittered by See also:John See also:Hunyadi's attack on George Brankovich of Servia (1444) and his refusal to recognize Ulrich's claim to Bosnia on the death of See also:Stephen Tvrtko (1443)
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In 1446 Hunyadi, now See also:governor of Hungary, harried the Cilli territories in Croatia-Slavonia; but his See also:power was broken at See also:Kossovo (1448), and Count Ulrich was able to See also:lead a successful crusade, nominally in the Habsburg See also:interest, into Hungary (1450)
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In 1452 he forced the emperor Frederick III. to See also:hand over the boy king Ladislaus V. to his keeping, and became thus practically ruler of Hungary
.
In 1454 his power was increased by his. See also:succession to his father's vast See also:wealth; and in 1456 he was named by Ladislaus his lieutenant in Hungary
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The Hunyadis now conspired to destroy him
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On the 8th of See also:November, in spite of warnings, he entered See also:Belgrade with the king; the next See also:day he was attacked by Laszlo Hunyadi and his See also:friends, and done to death
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With him died the male See also:line of the See also:counts of Cilli
.
Count Ulrich's ambition was boundless, his passions unbridled; but the hostile judgments passed by See also:Aeneas
Sylvius and other contemporaries upon him must be read with caution
.
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