KB, Poland, Angevin Dynasty, king Louis I the Great, Hungary, Korski

Description: This medal is a part of my Polish medals collection Visit my page with the offers, please. You will find many interesting items related to this subject. If you are interested in other medals, related to this subject, click here, please. Poland; Rulers Medieval Motives Historic Battles Poland; History The artist - Prof Witold Korski (1918 - 2003), one of the most famous polish artist, architect, sculptor and engraver. see the link; http://warszawa.sarp.org.pl/php/galeria/barucki_witold-korski.htm. The information is in Polish, and the medals are published there, as the finest of his works. His imagination regarding the medieval motives is the most creative I ever seen on the contemporary medals. The Polish Kings and Royals and Their Coins Series by Profs. Witold Korski This series consists of 44 medals; if you are interested in the complete set, please contact me. Louis I the Great Louis I the Great (Hungarian: I. (Nagy) Lajos, Polish: Ludwik Węgierski) (1326 Visegrád - 1382 Nagyszombat) was a King of Hungary and Poland in the late 14th century. He was named after his uncle, Saint Louis of Toulouse. Louis the Great led armies many times. His best known campaigns are those for the throne of Naples, but he defeated Venice, and fought in Bulgaria, Bosnia, Wallachia etc., and against the Golden Horde. The first Ottoman Hungarian clash was during his reign. Louis I also established an Adriatic fleet. He found the first university in Hungary in the city of Pécs and made latinization efforts in the Kingdom. The Piasts did not die out in 1370, as there were plenty of Piasts princes in Silesia and in Masovia; however, Casimir III left only female issue and had only one grandson. Since arrangements had been made for Louis' succession as early as 1355, he became King of Poland upon his grandfather's death in right of (and practically together with) his mother Elisabeth of Poland, who held much of the practical power until her death in 1380. Louis became king of Hungary in 1342 at the death of his father. He was the son of Charles I, King of Hungary, and was the head of the Angevin minor branch (Anjou-Sicily) and a member of the Capetian royal dynasty. Louis' mother was Elisabeth of Poland, daughter of Ladislaus the Short, and sister of Casimir III the Great, King of Poland and the last ruler of Piast dynasty, who died 1370. In 1342, Louis married his first wife, Margaret of Luxemburg (1335-1349), underaged daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, who died while still a minor. He then married his second wife, Elisabeth of Bosnia, daughter of Stephen II of Bosnia and Elisabeth of Kujavia, in 1353. Her maternal grandfather was Casimir of Kuyavia, son of Ziemomysl of Kuyavia and Salome of Pomerelia. Ziemomysl, Elisabeth's great-grandfather, was a Polish prince and the brother of Vladislav I of Poland, Louis's grandfather. Elisabeth's father was Louis's vassal in southern frontiers of Hungary. He died in 1382. Louis had three daughters, all born of his second wife: · Catherine (1366-77) · Mary, Queen of Hungary, wife of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, at that time Margrave of Brandenburg · Hedwig (Queen Jadwiga of Poland). When Louis died in 1382, the Hungarian throne was inherited by Mary. In Poland, however, the lords of Lesser Poland (the virtual rulers of Poland) did not want to continue the personal union with Hungary, nor to accept Mary's fiancé Sigismund as a regent. They therefore chose Mary's younger sister, Jadwiga, as their new monarch. After two years of negotiations with Jadwiga's mother, Dowager Queen Elisabeth of Hungary (Elisabeth of Bosnia) who was regent of Hungary, and a civil war in Greater Poland (1383), Jadwiga finally came to Kraków and was crowned King (sic) of Poland on 16 November 1384. The masculine gender in her title was intended to underline the fact that she was a monarch in her own right, not a queen consort. Names in other languages: Hungarian: I (Nagy) Lajos, Polish: Ludwik Węgierski, Slovak: Ľudovít I (Veľký). av. The Hungarian gold coin of Louis I the Great, the dates - MCCCLXX - MCCCLXXXII rv. The king on the throne, the coat of arms of Poland and Hungary, the inscription – ‘LODOVICUS D. G. R. . – R. P. and KOSZICE MCCCLXXIV. Round the inscription – “ORDINI EQUSTRI POLONORUM PRIVILEGIUM DAT. PRO FILIAE CORONATIONE FAVENDA” diameter - 70 mm (2 ¾ “) weight – 122.60 gr, (4.32 0z) metal – bronze, nice patina In 1374 King Louis the Hungarian approved the Privilege of Koszyce (Polish: "przywilej koszycki" or "ugoda koszycka") in Koszyce in order to guarantee the Polish throne for his daughter Jadwiga. He broadened the definition of who was a member of the nobility and exempted the entire class from all but one tax (łanowy, which was limited to 2 grosze from łan (a measure of land size)). In addition, the King's right to raise taxes was abolished; no new taxes could be raised without the agreement of the nobility. Henceforth, also, district offices (Polish: "urzędy ziemskie") were reserved exclusively for local nobility, as the Privilege of Koszyce forbade the king to grant official posts and major Polish castles to foreign knights. Finally, this privilege obliged the King to pay indemnities to nobles injured or taken captive during a war outside Polish borders.

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