Charles I of Hungary
King of Hungary
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He spent a decade fighting just to be recognized as king of his own realm. Charles I inherited a Hungarian crown by papal decree and family claim, but faced two rival kings, a splintered kingdom run by warlords, and noblemen who locked his enemies in towers rather than bow to any central authority.
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Charles was the grandson of Mary of Hungary, who transferred her claim to the throne after her brother Ladislaus IV died in 1290, though the Hungarian nobles chose Andrew III instead. Invited to Hungary by a Croatian lord in 1300, Charles was crowned with a provisional crown in 1301 after Andrew's death, but most nobles rejected him for Wenceslaus of Bohemia, then Otto of Bavaria. The kingdom had fractured into a dozen provinces ruled by oligarchs, one of whom imprisoned Otto in 1307. Charles won decisive victory at Rozgony in 1312 and spent the next decade reclaiming fortresses and power with…
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