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  JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1... - Online Information article about JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1...
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encyclopedia.jrank.org /JEE_JUN/JOHN_ZAPOLYA_1487_1540_.html   (1094 words)

  
  John of Hungary - LoveToKnow 1911
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 Szekesfehervar (loth of November), and he was crowned on the following day with the holy crown.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /John_of_Hungary   (756 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: George Martinuzzi
Owing to his talent, skill, and zeal, his superiors appointed him prior of the monastery of Czenstoehau in Poland, and later of the monastery of Sajolad, near Erlau in North Hungary.
He went from Poland to Hungary, organized the adherents of Zapolya, secured financial support from Magyar nobles, and raised an army which defeated Ferdinand's general, Ravay (1528).
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.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/09735a.htm   (1126 words)

  
  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)

  
 Bratislava Tourist Service: Coronations: History
John Zapolya was elected King in Belgrade on November 10, 1526, the day after he was crowned King of Hungary.
A truce was finally concluded in February 1538, John Zapolya and Ferdinand agreed to rule over certain parts of the country.
Zapolya ruled in Transylvania, Central and Eastern Hungary, Ferdinand ruled in Western Hungary including current territory of Slovakia.
www.bratislava-info.sk /index.php?cl=n4&iid=48&action=view&lng=en   (890 words)

  
 George Martinuzzi
Owing to his talent, skill, and zeal, his superiors appointed him prior of the monastery of Czenstoehau in Poland, and later of the monastery of Sajolad, near Erlau in North Hungary.
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.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/martinuzzi,george.html   (1147 words)

  
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The main part of the army passes Komárno and occupies Buda (in August) and defeats the retreating Zapolya‘s troops near Tokaj, thus enabling Ferdinand’s coronation in November 1527 in Székésfehérvár.
The sultan recognizes John Zapolya as king of Historic Hungary and becomes his ally, and John Zapolya becomes a vassal of the sultan.
Zapolya becomes the actual king of Historic Hungary again and, as at the beginning of the civil war, Ferdinand basically controls only western Slovakia and free royal towns.
www.angelfire.com /sk3/quality/Part_of_Hungary_II.html   (15373 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - John Zapolya (Austria And Hungary, History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - John Zapolya (Austria And Hungary, History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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John Zapolya see John I, king of Hungary.
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 JAN ZAPOLYA   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jan Zapolya was born in Slovakya, in 1487.
Jan Zapolya was the candidate of king among nobles.
Jan Zapolya violated the agreement done in 1538, left his son Sigismund to his place and died in Transilvania, in 1540.
www.osmanli700.gen.tr /english/individuals/j2.html   (171 words)

  
 Unitarian Universalist Association - General Assembly 98
Once Louis had died, it was obvious both to the common people and to the vast majority of the surviving nobles that there was one man best fit to lead their country in continued independence.
John Zapolya was kind to me, in a preoccupied way; he would answer my questions gravely, and more than once I saw him blink, and suddenly become absorbed within himself, as if I had asked something in a way he hadn't quite thought of.
I had been raised in the traditional Catholic faith of the Polish court, and that was the belief of John Zapolya; he had even taken some steps at the start of his reign to resist the spread of Lutheran ideas into Transylvania from Germany.
www.uua.org /ga/ga98/jun26isabella.html   (3577 words)

  
 The History of Protestantism by J. A. Wylie
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.
It happened that in the same prison was a flsmith, who in the shoeing had lamed the king's favorite horse, and the passionate Zapolya had sworn that if the horse died the flsmith should pay the forfeit of his life.
His activity and success drew upon him the wrath of the Romanists, and after being set upon and nearly beaten to death by an officer of the Bishop of Grosswardein's body-guard, he was driven out of the country.
www.whatsaiththescripture.com /Voice/History.Protestant.v3.b20.html   (15769 words)

  
 Wikipedia: Transylvania
When the main Hungarian army and King Louis II were slain (1526) in the Battle of Mohács, John Zapolya, voivode of Transylvania, took advantage of his military strength and put himself at the head of the nationalist Hungarian party, which opposed the succession of Ferdinand of Austria (later Emperor Ferdinand I) to the Hungarian throne.
In the ensuing struggle Zapolya received the support of Sultan Sulayman I, who after Zapolya's death (1540) overran central Hungary on the pretext of protecting Zapolya's son, John II.
Hungary was now divided into three sections: West Hungary, under Austrian rule; central Hungary, under Turkish rule; and semi-independent Transylvania, where Austrian and Turkish influences vied for supremacy for nearly two centuries.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/t/tr/transylvania.html   (1387 words)

  
 suleyman1
Suleyman saw to it that John Zapolya was appointed as the country's figurehead ruler.
Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, was greatly alarmed by the Ottoman advances and he sent his brother, Ferdinand, to retake the Hungarian capital of Buda.
In 1541, the Ottoman ally, John Zapolya died in Hungary.
www.stfrancis.edu /hi/suleyman1.html   (815 words)

  
 Lecture 8
Hungary autonomous vassal kingdom under Ottoman suzerainty (1526-154 1), ruled by John Zapolya, prince of Transylvania.
Zapolya secretly agrees with Ferdinand to leave Hungarian throne to Ferdinand after his death.
Zapolya's death (1540) leads Ferdinand to claim right to rule all Hungary.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /history/shaw/classes/111a/98F/lec8.htm   (1075 words)

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