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LADISLAUS V

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 60 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LADISLAUS V  . (144o–1457), See also:king of See also:Hungary and Bohemia, the only son of See also:Albert, king of Hungary, and See also:Elizabeth, daughter of the See also:emperor See also:Sigismund, was See also:born at See also:Komarom on the 22nd of See also:February 1440, four months after his See also:father's See also:death, and was hence called See also:Ladislaus Posthumus . The estates of Hungary had already elected See also:Wladislaus III. of See also:Poland their king, but Ladislaus's See also:mother caused the See also:holy See also:crown to be stolen from its guardians at Visegrad, and compelled the See also:primate to crown the See also:infant king at Szekesfejervar on the 15th of May 1440; where-upon, for safety's See also:sake, she placed the See also:child beneath the See also:guardian-See also:ship of his See also:uncle the emperor See also:Frederick III . On the death of Wladislaus III . (Nov. loth, 1444), Ladislaus V. was elected king by the Hungarian estates, though not without considerable opposition, and a deputation was sent to See also:Vienna to induce the emperor to surrender the child and the holy crown; but it was not till 1452 that Frederick was compelled to relinquish both . The child was then transferred to the pernicious guardianship of his maternal grandfather See also:Ulrich Cillei, who corrupted him soul and See also:body and inspired him with a jealous hatred of the Hunyadis . On the 28th of See also:October 1453 he was crowned king of Bohemia, and henceforth spent most of his See also:time at See also:Prague and Vienna . He remained supinely indifferent to the See also:Turkish peril; at the instigation of Cillei did his best to hinder the defensive preparations of the See also:great See also:Hunyadi, and fled from the See also:country on the tidings of the See also:siege of See also:Belgrade . On the death of Hunyadi he made Cillei See also:governor of Hungary at the See also:diet of Futtak (October 1456), and when that traitor paid with his See also:life See F . Palacky, Zeugenverhor fiber den See also:Tod See also:Konig Ladislaus von Ungarn u . Bohmen (Prague, 1856) ; Ignacz Acsady, See also:History of the Hungarian See also:State (Hung.), vol. i . (See also:Budapest, 1903) .

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NICOLAS BRICAIRE DE (c . 1730-1791), See also:French See also:man of letters, was born at Lamothe (Haute-See also:Marne) . While still See also:young he removed to See also:Paris, where the See also:rest of his life was spent in See also:literary activity . He died on the 26th of See also:November 1791 . His numerous See also:works include Conies philosophiques et moraux (1765), See also:Les Deux Ages du got"it et du genie sous See also:Louis XI V. et sous Louis X V . (1769), a parallel and contrast, in which the decision is given in favour of the latter; L'Espagne litteraire (1774); Eloge de See also:Voltaire (1779) and Eloge de See also:Montaigne (1781) .

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