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of Transylvania and later regent of the

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, and

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. He was the older brother of Matthias Hunyadi, who would later become the king of Hungary. At a very early age he accompanied his father in his campaigns. After the

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he was left for a time, as a hostage for his father, in the hands of George Brankovic (1427–1456), despot of

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. In 1452 he was a member of the deputation which went to

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to receive back the Hungarian king

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. In 1453 he was already

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.Engel 1996, p. 27. At the diet of

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(1455) he resigned all his dignities, because of the accusations of

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, and other enemies of his house, but a reconciliation was ultimately patched together and he was betrothed to Anna, the daughter of the palatine,

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. After his father's death in 1456, he was declared by his enemy Ulrich II (now Captain General of Hungary with significant power) responsible for the debts allegedly owed by the elder Hunyadi to the state; but he defended himself so ably at the diet of Futak (October 1456) that Ulrich feigned a reconciliation, promising to protect the Hunyadis on condition that they first surrendered all the royal castles entrusted to them. A beginning was to be made with the fortress of

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, Serbia) of which Hunyadi was commandant.Engel 1996, p. 104. While admitting Ladislaus V and Ulrich, Hunyadi excluded their army of mercenaries. On the following morning (9 November 1456), Ulrich was killed by Hunyadi's men in unclear circumstances. Later Hunyadi served as

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() until his death.Engel 1996, p. 43. The terrified young king thereupon pardoned Hunyadi, and at a subsequent interview with his mother at Temesvár swore that he would protect the whole family. As a pledge of his sincerity he appointed Hunyadi lord treasurer and captain-general of the kingdom. Suspecting no evil, Hunyadi accompanied the king to Buda. But on arriving there he was arrested on a charge of plotting against the king, condemned to death without the observance of any legal formalities, and beheaded on 16 March 1457. Hunyadi was the protagonist of a popular Hungarian opera, ''

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Ancestry

References

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. *Engel, Pál (1996). ''Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1301–1457, I.'' ("Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1301–1457, Volume I"). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. Budapest. . * *Bánhegyi, Ferenc: ''A Hunyadiak dicsősége'', Celldömölk, Apáczai Kiadó, 2008. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunyadi, Ladislaus 1431 births 1457 deaths

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