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Louis Jagellion ( July 1 , 1506 - August 29 , 1526 ) was King of Bohemia and hungary from 1516 to 1526. BIOGRAPHY Louis was the son of Ladislaus V Jagiello and his fourth wife, Anne De Foix . His father died in 1516 and the minor Louis II accended to the throne of Hungary and Bohemia upon his father's death. Louis had been adopted by emperor Maximilian I in 1515 . When Maximilian I died in 1519 , Louis was raised by his legal guardian Georg Hohenzollern , margrave of Brandenburg - Ansbach . In 1522 Louis II was married to Maria Of Austria , a Habsburg princess, granddaughter of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor , as stipulated by an imperial congress at Vienna in 1515. His sister Anne was married to Archduke Ferdinand Of Austria , then a governor on behalf of his brother Charles V , later the Emperor Ferdinand I. Louis was killed at the Battle Of Mohács in 1526 . Ferdinand and Anne succeeded him in his kingdom of Bohemia, but Hungary, Largely Conquered By The Turks , was further put into succession dispute between Janos Szapolyai on one hand and Ferdinand & Anne on the other. Names in other languages: German:''Ludwig II'', Czech: ''Ludvík'', Slovak: ''Ľudovít II'', Hungarian: ''II. Lajos'', Croatian: ''Ludovik II''
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