Andrew II of Hungary

Andrew II inherited money and land from his father Béla III with explicit orders to lead a crusade; instead he extorted his brother Emeric into ceding him Croatia and Dalmatia in 1197, then kept scheming until Emeric's death handed him the throne in 1205. His "new institutions" grants policy gutted royal revenues by showering estates on partisans, while he styled himself "King of Halych and Lodomeria" and waged at least a dozen wars trying to seize Rus' principalities - all repelled. He finally sailed on the Fifth Crusade in 1217-1218, which failed. Back home, rising servientes regis forced him to issue the Golden Bull of 1222, codifying their privileges and birthing the Hungarian nobility; his 1224 Diploma Andreanum did the same for Transylvanian Saxons. His first wife Gertrude of Merania was murdered in 1213 over her German favoritism; their daughter Elizabeth was canonized before Andrew died. He married twice more, employed Jews and Muslims as revenue officers - enraging the Church - and promised in 1233 to dismiss them, a pledge he never kept.