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 | | Ladislaus' mother thus compelled the primate to crown the infant king at Székesfehérvár on 15 May 1440; whereupon, for safety's sake, she placed the child in the guardianship of his uncle, the emperor Frederick III (then ruler of Styria and Carinthia), who held him prisoner in Castle Orth and ruled Austria himself. |
 | | On the death of Wladislaus I in the Battle of Varna (10 November 1444), the Hungarian estates, not without considerable opposition, elected Ladislaus Postumus as their king and sent a deputation to Vienna to induce the emperor to surrender the child and the holy crown, which Frederick first refused. |
 | | In Austria, his uncle Frederick V succeeded him, in Hungary Matthias Corvinus of the Hunyadi family, while in Bohemia George of Poděbrady was to become the only Hussite ruler of his kingdom. |
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