Ladislas I

Ladislas I
or Saint Ladislas

born June 27, 1040, Pol.
died July 29, 1095, Nitra, Slvk.; canonized 1192; feast day June 27

King of Hungary (1077–95).

He greatly expanded the boundaries of the kingdom, gaining land in Transylvania and occupying Croatia (1091). In the Investiture Controversy he sided with the pope. Ladislas introduced Roman Catholicism to Croatia and persecuted pagans in his dominions. He also promulgated a legal code that brought order and prosperity to Hungary. He died while preparing for the First Crusade and was canonized in 1192.

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▪ king of Hungary
also called  Saint Ladislas,  Hungarian  Szent László 
born June 27, 1040, Poland
died July 29, 1095, Nitra, Slovakia; canonized 1192; feast day June 27
 king of Hungary who greatly expanded the boundaries of the kingdom and consolidated it internally; no other Hungarian king was so generally beloved by the people.

      The son of Béla I of Hungary and the Polish princess Rycheza (Ryksa), Ladislas was born in exile. Returning to Hungary, he and his brother Géza refused to contest the throne against their cousin Salomon; however, they quarreled with him and drove him from the country (1073). Géza took the throne, and, on his death, in 1077, Ladislas succeeded him as king of Hungary.

      Ladislas extended Hungary's frontier in Transylvania and occupied Croatia (1091) to protect the rights of his sister, the widow of Zvonimir, prince of Croatia. In the investiture struggle over the nomination and installation of bishops, Ladislas sided with the pope, though he also initiated a policy of reconciliation with the Holy Roman emperor Henry IV. Ladislas rooted out heathens in his dominions with severity and introduced Roman Catholicism to Croatia, founding the bishopric of Zagreb (1091). He introduced an elaborate legal code that brought order and prosperity to his dominions.

      Ladislas died suddenly while preparing for the First Crusade. The ideal Hungarian knight, he was regarded by the nation as a saint long before his canonization.

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