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COUNT OF ULRICH CILLI (1406-1456)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 366 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . About 1432 he married See also:Catherine, daughter of See also:George Brankovich, See also:despot of See also:Servia . 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 See also:Albert II., who made See also:Ulrich for a See also:short while his See also:lieutenant in Bohemia . 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 . Posthumus (1440) . '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) . 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) . 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 . The Hunyadis now conspired to destroy him .

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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 . 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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