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COUNT OF See also: Frederick II., count of Cilli, and See also: Elizabeth Frangepan
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Of his youth we know nothing certain
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About 1432 he married
See also: Catherine, daughter of See also: George Brankovich, despot of See also: Servia
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His influence in the troubled affairs of Hungary and the See also: Empire early 'Overshadowed that of his See also: father, together with whom he was made a See also: prince of the Empire by the emperor See also: Sigismund (1436)
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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
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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 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 governor of Hungary, harried the Cilli territories in Croatia-Slavonia; but his 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
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In 1454 his power was increased by his. 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 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
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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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