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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : John III Sobieski   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John (Jan) III Sobieski (August 17, 1629 – June 17, 1696) was the king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1674 to 1696.
Jan was born in 1629 at Olesko, Poland to Jakub (James) Sobieski (1580-1646), Voivod of Ruthenian Voivodship and Castellan of Kraków and Zofia Teofillia (Daniłowicz), granddaughter of Hetman Stanislaw Zolkiewski.
King John III Sobieski, nicknamed by the Turks the "Lion of Lechistan", and the last great king of Poland, died in Wilanów, Poland on June 17, 1696.
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 Charles I, king of Hungary
On the death (1301) of Andrew III, last of the Arpad dynasty, Charles was the candidate of Pope Boniface VIII for the crown of St. Stephen, but the Hungarians elected
He married his second son to Joanna I of Naples and took as his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of King Ladislaus I of Poland.
In 1339 he secured the succession to Casimir III of Poland for his eldest son, later Louis I of Hungary.
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 Ladislaus IV - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
There were several revolts against the king, and he was finally slain by the once-favored Cumans.
He died heirless; his successor, Andrew III (reigned 1290-1301), who issued from another branch of the Arpad dynasty, was succeeded as king of Hungary by King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia.
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