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	John II Zápolya - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		John II Zápolya (1540-1571), king of Hungary (1540-1571), the son of John I Zápolya and grandson of Sigismund I of Poland, for whom he was also...
		John I Zápolya: Louis II (of Hungary and Bohemia)
		Louis II (of Hungary and Bohemia), in Hungarian, Lajos II (1506-1526), King of Hungary (1516-1526) and Bohemia (1509-1526), son and successor of...
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	John Zápolya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John I Zápolya (Hungarian János Zápolya or Szapolyai) (1487–July 22, 1540), was a pretender to the throne (with Ferdinand I) of Hungary between 1526 and 1540 [ Brit-JZ].
		After the battle of Mohács in 1526 and death of Louis II of Hungary, the Ottoman Empire conquered much of Hungary, and the Austrian Habsburgs were disputing with the Ottomans for possession of the remaining land (see Royal Hungary).
		After Zapolya's death, his son John II Sigismund Zápolya succeeded him as Hungarian King and Ottoman vassal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Z%C3%A1polya (251 words)

	Stefan Batory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Istvan Bathory spent his early years at the court of the emperor Ferdinand I, subsequently attached himself to John Zapolya, and won equal renown as a valiant lord-marcher, and as a skillful diplomat at the imperial court.
		Zapolya rewarded him with the voivodeship of Transylvania, and as the loyal defender of the rights of his patrons' son, John Sigismund, he incurred the animosity of the emperor Maximilian II of Austria, who kept him in prison for two years.
		On May 25 of 1571, on the death of John Sigismund, Bathory was elected prince of Transylvania by the Hungarian estates, despite the opposition of the court of Vienna and contrary to the wishes of the late prince, who had appointed Gaspar Bekesy his successor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Bathory,_King_of_Poland (1419 words)

	AllRefer.com - John I, king of Hungary (Austria And Hungary, History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		John I (John Zapolya)[zA´pOlyo] Pronunciation Key, 1487–1540, king of Hungary (1526–40), voivode [governor] of Transylvania (1511–26).
		John was crowned king by the Hungarian nobles, but Ferdinand claimed the crown on the basis of his marriage with Anna as well as previous agreements.
		In 1527, Ferdinand defeated John and was crowned by John's opponents.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/John1Hun.html (405 words)

	John II - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		JOHN II [John II] (John Sigismund Zapolya), 1540-71, king of Hungary and prince of Transylvania, son of John I. Through his mother, Isabel (daughter of Sigismund I of Poland), he was related to the Jagiello dynasty.
		John and Isabel received the principality of Transylvania under Ottoman suzerainty, but actual power was held by John's guardian, the monk George Martinuzzi, who sought to restore a unified Hungary.
		In 1551, Martinuzzi procured the deposition of John and Isabel and reunited Transylvania with Hungary, recognizing Ferdinand of Austria and Bohemia (later Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I) as king.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-john2hun.html (445 words)

	JOHN HUNYADI: Hungary in American History Textbooks - Title
		John was crowned king by the Hungarian nobles, but Ferdinand of Austria claimed the crown on the basis of his marriage with Anna as well as previous agreements.
		John II (John Sigismund Zapolya), 1540-71, king of Hungary and prince of Transylvania, son of John I. Through his mother, Isabel (daughter of Sigismund I of Poland), he was related to the Jagiello dynasty.
		John II's rule in Transylvania was remarkable for the adoption (1564) of Calvinism as the state religion by the diet.
	www.hungarian-history.hu /lib/hunyadi/hu02.htm (2567 words)

	JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1... - Online Information article about JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1...
		leader was slowly done to death were the invention of Zapolya.
		Turks that king John was able to exhaust his opponent and compel him to come to terms.
		John was the last national king of Hungary.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /JEE_JUN/JOHN_ZAPOLYA_1487_1540_.html (1100 words)

	Sulayman I
		John II were pretexts for the outright annexation of Hungary (except for Transylvania and the section held by Ferdinand) to the Ottoman Empire.
		Sulayman II - Sulayman II, 1642–91, Ottoman sultan (1687–91), brother and successor of Muhammad IV to...
		Selim II - Selim II (Selim the Drunkard), c.1524–1574, Ottoman sultan (1566–74), son and successor...
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	John Zapolya
		JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540), king of Hungary, was the son of the palatine Stephen Zapolya and the princess Hedwig of Teschen, and was born at the castle of Szepesvar.
		In 1510 Zapolya sued in person for the hand of the Princess Anne in vain, and his appointment to the voivody of Transylvania (1511) was with the evident intention of removing him far from court.
		Zapolya was elected king of Hungary at the subsequent diet of Tokaj (Oct. 14), the election was confirmed by the diet of Szekes-fehervar (roth of November), and he was crowned on the following day with the holy crown.
	www.futura-dtp.dk /SLAG/Personer/NavneZ/ZapolyaJohn.htm (854 words)

	John II King of Poland: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		John II defeated (1651) the allied Cossack, Tatar, and Ottoman forces, but in 1654 the Cossacks accepted Russian suzerainty over the Ukraine, and Czar Alexis promptly invaded Poland.
		JOHN II, king of Hungary and prince of Transylvania (John Sigismund Zapolya), 1540 71, king of Hungary and prince...Through his mother, Isabel (daughter of Sigismund I of Poland), he was related to the Jagiello dynasty.
		John IIIs Catholic son and heir, King Sigismund III of Poland, who was obliged to pledge himself...crown until Sigismunds brother, John, renounced it in 1604.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/john_ii_king_of_poland.jsp (1999 words)

	l. Hungary. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		LADISLAS II, king of Bohemia, was elected king of Hungary by the nobles.
		It was suppressed in a sea of blood by John Zápolya, leader of the nobility.
		LOUIS II, the son of Ladislas, succeeded his father at the age of ten.
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	AllRefer.com - John II, king of Hungary and prince of Transylvania (Austria And Hungary, History, Biography) - ...
		John II, king of Hungary and prince of Transylvania, Austria And Hungary, History, Biographies
		John II (John Sigismund Zapolya), 1540–71, king of Hungary and prince of Transylvania, son of John I. Through his mother, Isabel (daughter of Sigismund I of Poland), he was related to the Jagiello dynasty.
		John was succeeded as prince of Transylvania by Stephen BAthory (see under BAthory, family).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/John2Hun.html (376 words)

	List of Hungarian rulers
		After the death of his husband Zápolya János[?] the areas was mainly controlled by nobles (with the lead of Fráter György[?]), until the nobles recalled her with her child (II Zápolya Zsigmond[?]) as Queen.
		Hungary was effectively split into 3 parts: a Habsburg domain in the north and west, Ottoman domain in the center, and Transylvania in the east after 1562.
		Abdicated three times, twice (1597, 1602), in favor of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II and once (1599) of his cousin Andrew Cardinal Bathory.
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	Encyclopedia
		The following year he repelled the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, a military and religious order, from the island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea.
		In 1526 he again invaded Hungary, killing Louis II, king of Hungary, and incapacitating the Hungarian army at the Battle of Mohács.
		He returned to Hungary in 1529 as the supporter of John I Zápolya, who had been elected king by the Hungarian nobility, but whose claim was contested by Archduke Ferdinand of Austria (later Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I).
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Reformation
		The king wished, however, to retain unchanged both the doctrines of the Church and the ecclesiastical hierarchy, and caused a series of doctrines and institutions rejected by Luther and his followers to be strictly prescribed by Act of Parliament (Six Articles) under the pain of death.
		King Christian II of Denmark (1513-23) welcomed the Reformation as a means of weakening the nobility and especially the clergy (who possessed extensive property) and thereby extending the power of the throne.
		John Valdez, secretary of the Viceroy of Naples.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12700b.htm (10509 words)

	Ferdinand I - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		He was elected king of Bohemia, but in Hungary he met the rival claim of John I (John Zapolya), supported by Sultan Sulayman I.
		John's claims were inherited by his son John Sigismund (king as John II).
		He was succeeded by his son, Maximilian II, who had been crowned king of Bohemia (1562) and king of Hungary (1563) and had been elected king of the Romans (1562) before Ferdinand's death.
	highbeam.com /library/docfree.asp?DOCID=1E1:Ferdi1HRE&... (434 words)

	John II Sigismund Zápolya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		If you are looking for John Zápolya Sr.
		John II Sigismund Zápolya (Zápolya/Szapolyai János Zsigmond in Hungarian) was the son of John Zápolya and the king of Hungary from 1540-1570.
		After his abdiction as king of Hungary he became the first Prince of Transylvania (1570-1571).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_II_Sigismund_Z%C3%A1polya (134 words)

	John II Zápolya - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		John II Zápolya - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		John II Zápolya (1540-1571), king of Hungary (1540-1571), the son of John I Zápolya and the grandson of Zygmunt I (also known as Sigismund I) of...
		John II (of Portugal), in Portuguese, João II, called The Perfect (1455-1495), the son of King Afonso V, born in Lisbon.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /John_II_Z%C3%A1polya.html (139 words)

	The History of Protestantism - Volume Third - Book Twentieth - Protestantism in Hungary and Transylvania
		John Henkel, the friend of Erasmus, and the chaplain of Queen Mary — the sister of Charles V, and wife of Louis II — was a friend of the Gospel, and he won over the queen to the same side.
		Zapolya, the lord of seventy-two castles, and by far the most powerful grandee in the country, sat still, expecting if the king were overthrown to be called to mount the vacant throne.
		Ferdinand II was the son of the Archduke Charles, and grandson of Ferdinand I. After the death of his father, he was sent in 1590 to Ingolstadt, to be educated by the Jesuits.
	www.doctrine.org /history/HPv3b20.htm (15553 words)

	TRANSYLVANIA - History of Transylvania, demographics of Transylvania, Transylvania today.
		In the ensuing struggle Zapolya received the support of Sultan Suleiman I, who after Zapolya's death in 1540 overran central Hungary on the pretext of protecting Zapolya's son, John II.
		In 1563, Giorgio Blandrata was appointed as court physician, and his radical religious ideas increasingly influenced both the young king John II and the Calvinist bishop Francis David, eventually converting both to the Anti-Trinitarian (Unitarian) creed.
		The Báthory family, which came to power on the death of John II in 1571, ruled Transylvania as princes under the Ottomans, and briefly under Hapsburg suzerainty, until 1602.
	www.transylvania-tours.com /transylvania/wiki.htm (3874 words)

	Romania - History - Empire Period - 16th Century - 1540-1549 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		After the death of Hungarian (Transylvanian) King Zapolya (János Zápolya or King John I), his son John Sigismund Zapolya was crowned King John II.
		John Zapolya (János Zápolya), who with Ottoman help had been crowned King John I of Hungary in 1526, died in 1540.
		His young son, John Sigismund Zapolya, accepted the crown as King John II of Hungary (r.1540-1571).
	www.romerica.com /rom/hist_ad1500_40.htm (544 words)

	John I Zápolya - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		John I Zápolya (1487-1540), king of Hungary (1526-1540), born in Slovakia.
		Buda (city, Hungary) : conquest by Süleyman I: John II Zápolya
		Pershing, John Joseph : World War I: speech of Pershing during World War I
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	Sigismund I
		Uladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary, with the grandchildren of Maximilian.
		Jagiello - Jagiello or Jagello, dynasty that ruled Poland and Lithuania from 1386 to 1572, Hungary from 1440...
		John II, king of Hungary and prince of Transylvania - John II (John Sigismund Zapolya), 1540–71, king of Hungary and prince of Transylvania, son of...
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	search.com - Stefan Batory - Search.com Reference
		Istvan Bathory spent his early years at the court of the emperor Ferdinand I of Austria, subsequently attached himself to John Zapolya, and won equal renown as a valiant lord-marcher, and as a skillful diplomat at the imperial court.
		On May 25 of 1571, on the death of John Sigismund, Bathory was elected prince of Transylvania by the Hungarian estates, in spite of the opposition of the court of Vienna and contrary to the wishes of the late prince, who had appointed Gaspar Bekesy his successor.
		The opposition of the city was reduced only after after a six months siege and a fierce battle of December 16, 1577, in which its army of 5,000 mercenaries was utterly defeated in open field.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Stefan_Batory (1412 words)

	John I, king of Hungary
		The leader of the antiforeign party of the Hungarian nobles, he secured a decree at the diet of 1505 by which no foreign ruler would be chosen king of Hungary after the death of the ruling king,
		Uladislaus II To strengthen his own candidacy for the crown he sought to marry the king's daughter, Anna, but his suit was rejected and he was removed from the court through his appointment as voivode of Transylvania.
		John Zapolya - Zapolya, John: see John I, king of Hungary.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0826397.html (298 words)

	Page39.html
		The king of Hungary died, Louis II, son of Vladislave II of Bohemia died.
		Hungarians elected John Zapolya [Janos Zapolyai], who was then King of Poland as their King.
		King John Zapolya II, son of John I, who had joined forces with the Sultan to prevent the Habsburgs from taking Hungary, ended up as Prince (Fursten) Governor of Transylvania.
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