Béla IV of Hungary
King of Hungary (1206-1270)
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He rebuilt a kingdom from ash. After the Mongol invasion of 1241 shattered Hungary and sent him fleeing to the Adriatic, Béla IV spent the next three decades fortifying cities, importing colonists, and restructuring power so thoroughly that contemporaries called him the "second founder of the state."
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Béla was crowned in 1214 at eight years old over his father Andrew II's objections, then spent years governing frontier provinces—Slavonia, Croatia, Transylvania—where he courted Cuman chieftains and took the title King of Cumania in 1233. He inherited the throne in 1235 and immediately moved to reclaim royal lands his father had given away, alienating nobles and clergy. That tension became irrelevant on 11 April 1241, when Mongol forces annihilated his army at Mohi and chased him town to town until he reached Trogir on the coast. The Mongols withdrew in March 1242, leaving Hungary depopulated…
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