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  AllRefer.com - John Zapolya (Austria And Hungary, History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - John Zapolya (Austria And Hungary, History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
John Zapolya see John I, king of Hungary.
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  JOHN (ZAPOLYA) - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN (ZAPOLYA)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
(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.
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 JOHN II. (SOBIESKI), KING OF POLAND - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN II. (SOBIESKI), KING OF POLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
John was a chivalrous and romantic personage, who enjoyed a great reputation for valour both before and after his death; but as a ruler he was careless and extravagant, interested only in his kingdom when seeking relief from his constant pecuniary embarrassments.
JOHN I. (1358-1390), king of Castile, was the son of Henry II.
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.
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 John Zapolya biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
John Zápolya refers to a father and son who were kings of Hungary in the 16th century.
John I Zápolya (Zápolya/Szapolyai János in Hungarian) was the king of Hungary between 1526 and 1540.
John II Sigismund Zápolya (Zápolya/Szapolyai János Zsigmond in Hungarian) was the son of John Zápolya and the king of Hungary from 1540-1571.
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 John II, king of Hungary and prince of Transylvania. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
(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.
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 John I on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
He was born John Zapolya, the son of Stephen Zápolya.
His anger at the marriage of Anna to Ferdinand of Austria (later Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I) probably motivated his failure to assist Uladislaus' son, King Louis II of Hungary, at the battle of Mohács (1526).
John Nathan Cobb (1868-1930): founding Director of the College of Fisheries, University of Washington, Seattle.(a man who attained a high position in academia without the benefit of a college education)(Biography)
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John Zapolya was the richest Hungarian magnate, duke of Transylvania since 1511, he owned 30 castles all over Historic Hungary and huge properties also in Slovakia.
The sultan recognizes John Zapolya as king of Historic Hungary and becomes his ally, and John Zapolya becomes a vassal of the sultan.
The Polish troops (John III Sobieski) join Habsburg troops (Charles of Lorraine) in Hollabrunn and they are accompanied to Tulln (August 31), where a bridge of boats had been carefully protected to secure the crossing of the Danube.
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 John Zápolya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
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In this, Zapolya was centuries ahead of his time in expressing the desire for self rule, and independance from outside rulers, which ultimately resulted in a free Hungary.
Zápolya's wife Isabella Jagello (Izabella in Hungarian) claimed the throne after John's death in the period of 1556-1559.
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 JOHN (Heb. llni') - Online Information article about JOHN (Heb. llni')
John the Evangelist, and by the forerunner of Christ, St John the Baptist.
error in the number assumed by John XXI.
Those princes who are known by a name in addition to John (John See also:
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: George Martinuzzi
Here the Hungarian pretender, John Zapolya found him, when, after the battle of Kashau, 1527, he was compelled to flee before King Ferdinand, and discovered in the prior "Frater Georgius", an acquaintance from the court of his mother Hedwig.
But Ferdinand, who had the support of several Magyarian nobles, demanded the fulfillment of an agreement concluded between him and John Zapolya, according to which, Hungary after the latter's death, was to be ceded to him.
Ferdinand was also to provide for her son John Sigmund, as later to marry him to his daughter.
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 JOHN BROWN (1810—1882) - Online Information article about JOHN BROWN (1810—1882)
JOHN BROWN (1810—1882) - Online Information article about JOHN BROWN (1810—1882)
M'Laren, Dr John Brown and his See also:
Isabella (4th ed.,.1890) and Letters of Dr John Brown, edited by his son and D.
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 JOHN (1468-1532) - Online Information article about JOHN (1468-1532)
JOHN (1468-1532) - Online Information article about JOHN (1468-1532)
JOHN (1468-1532), called the Steadfast, elector of See also:
elder son, John Frederick, succeeded him as elector, and his younger son was John Ernest (d.
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