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See also:SIGISMUND (1368-1437) , See also:Roman See also:emperor and See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Hungary and Bohemia, was a son of the emperor See also:Charles IV. and See also:Elizabeth, daughter of Bogislaus V., See also:duke of See also:Pomerania. He was See also:born on the 15th of See also:February 1368, and in 1374 was betrothed to Maria, the eldest daughter of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis the See also:Great, king of See also:Poland and Hungary. Having become See also:margrave of See also:Brandenburg on his f.ither's See also:death in 1378, he was educated at the Hungarian See also:court
as king of Hungary that he had succeeded in establishing his authority and in doing anything for the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order and See also:good See also:government of the See also:land. Entrusting the government of Bohemia to See also:Sophia, the widow of See also:Wenceslaus, he hastened into Hungary; but the Bohemians, who distrusted him as the betrayer of See also:Huss, were soon in arms; and the See also:flame was fanned when Sigismund declared his intention of prosecuting the See also:war against heretics who were also communists. Three See also:campaigns against the Ilussites ended in disaster; the See also:Turks were again attacking Hungary; and the king, unable to obtain support from the See also:German princes, was powerless in Bohemia. His attempts at the See also:diet of See also:Nuremberg in 1422 to raise a See also:mercenary See also:army were foiled by the resistance of the towns; and in 1424 the See also:electors, among whom was Sigismund's former ally, See also:Frederick I. of See also:Hohenzollern, margrave of Brandenburg, sought to strengthen their own authority at the expense of the king. Although the See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme failed, the danger to See also:Germany from the See also:Hussites led to fresh proposals, the result of which was that Sigismund was virtually deprived of the leadership of the war and the headship of Germany. In 1431 he went to See also:Milan where on the 25th of See also:November he received the Lombard See also:crown; after which he remained for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time at See also:Siena, negotiating for his See also:coronation as emperor and for the recognition of the See also:Council of See also:Basel by See also:Pope See also:Eugenius IV. He was crowned emperor at See also:Rome on the 31st of May 1433, and after obtaining his demands from the pope returned to Bohemia, where he was recognized as king in 1436, though his See also:power was little more than nominal. On the 9th of See also:December 1437 he died at See also:Znaim, and was buried at Grosswardein. By his second wife, See also:Barbara of See also:Cilli, he See also:left an only daughter, Elizabeth, who was married to See also:Albert V., duke of See also:Austria, afterwards the German king Albert II., whom he named as his successor. As he left no sons the See also:house of See also:Luxemburg became See also:extinct on his death.
Sigismund was brave and handsome, courtly in his bearing, eloquent in his speech, but licentious in his See also:manners. He was an accomplished See also:knight and is said to have known seven See also:languages. He was also one of the most far-seeing statesmen of his See also:day, and steadily endeavoured to bring about the See also:expulsion of the Turks from See also:Europe by uniting Christendom against them. As king of Hungary he approved himself a born See also:political reformer, and the military See also:measures which he adopted in that See also:country enabled the See also:kingdom to hold its own against the Turks for nearly a See also:hundred years. His sense of See also:justice and See also:honour was slight; but as regards the death of Huss he had to choose between condoning the See also:act and allowing the council to break up without result. He cannot be entirely blamed for the misfortunes of Germany during his reign, for he showed a willingness to See also:attempt reform; but he was easily discouraged, and was hampered on all sides by poverty, which often compelled him to resort to the meanest expedients for raising See also:money.
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