Capetian House of Anjou

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. Chapters: House of Anjou-Durazzo, House of Anjou-Hungary, House of Anjou-Naples, House of Anjou-Taranto, Jadwiga of Poland, Louis I of Hungary, Charles I of Naples, Charles I of Hungary, Mary, Queen of Hungary, Charles II of Naples, House of Keglevic, Philip I, Prince of Taranto, Ladislaus of Naples, Joan I of Naples, Robert, King of Naples, Marie de Bourbon, Princess of Achaea, Mary of Hungary, Queen of Naples, Joan II of Naples, Charles III of Naples, Blanche of Anjou, Maria of Calabria, Saint Louis of Toulouse, Margaret of Durazzo, Joanna, Duchess of Durazzo, Eleanor of Anjou, Queen of Sicily, John, Duke of Durazzo, Helen of Anjou, Joan of Anjou, Elizabeth of Sicily, Queen of Hungary, Andrew, Duke of Calabria, Charles Martel of Anjou, Thamar Angelina Komnene, Catherine of Valois, Stephen, Duke of Slavonia, Charles, Duke of Calabria, Catherine of Hungary, Maria of Anjou, Queen of Majorca, Agnes of Durazzo, Raymond Berengar of Andria, Peter Tempesta, Robert, Prince of Taranto, Elizabeth of Slavonia, Margaret, Countess of Anjou, Philip II, Prince of Taranto, Beatrice of Hungary, Dauphine of Viennois, Robert of Durazzo, Beatrice of Sicily, Latin Empress, Charles, Duke of Durazzo, Louis, Prince of Taranto, Elisabeth of Sicily, Duchess of Bavaria, Louis of Durazzo, Count of Gravina, Stephen of Durazzo. Excerpt: Louis the Great (Hungarian: , Croatian: , Polish: , Slovak: , Italian: , German: , Bulgarian: , Serbian: , Czech: Ludvík I. Veliký, Lithuanian: (5 March 1326, Visegrád - 10 September 1382, Nagyszombat/Trnava) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370 until his death. (See Titles section) Louis was the head of the senior branch of the Angevin dynasty. He was one of the most active and accomplished monarchs of the Late Middle Ages, extending territorial control to the Adriatic and securing Dalmatia, with part of Bosnia and Bulgaria, within the Holy Crown of Hungary. During his reign Hungary reached the peak of its political influence. He spent much of his reign in wars with the Republic of Venice. He was in competition for the throne of Naples, with huge military success and the latter with little lasting political results. Louis is the first European monarch who came into collision with the Ottoman Turks. He founded the University of Pécs in 1367, the letter patent issued by pope Urban V The family coat-of-arms. The golden horseshoe in the beak of the ostrich means the "talisman of good luck"Louis was the third son of Charles I of Hungary and Elisabeth of Poland, the daughter of Ladislaus the Short and sister to Casimir III of Poland. He had four brothers and two sisters: In 1342, Louis married his first wife, Margaret (1335 - 1349), underaged daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, who died while still a minor. He then married his second wife, Elisabeth, daughter of Stephen II of Bosnia, who became Louis's vassal, and Elisabeth of Kuyavia, in 1353 . Her maternal grandfather was Polish Casimir of Kuyavia, son of Ziemomysl of Kuyavia and Salome of Eastern Pomerania. Louis had three known daughters, all born of his second wife: Louis, named for his great uncle, Saint Louis of Toulouse. Louis acquired the seven liberal arts (grammar, rhetoric, logic, geometry, arithmetic, music, astronomy). When he was sixteen, Louis understood Latin, Ge