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(Encyclopedia) Ladislaus II, king of Bohemia: see Uladislaus II, king of Hungary. ...

(Encyclopedia) Ladislaus I, king of Bohemia: see Ladislaus V, king of Hungary. ...

(Encyclopedia) Charles II, king of Hungary: see Charles III, king of Naples. ...

(Encyclopedia) James VI, king of Scotland: see James I, king of England. ...

(Encyclopedia) Ferdinand IV, king of Naples: see Ferdinand I, king of the Two Sicilies. ...

(Encyclopedia) William I, 1781–1864, king of Württemberg (1816–64), son and successor of Frederick I. Before his accession he fought (1812) with the French emperor Napoleon I in Russia and later, when Frederick...

(Encyclopedia) Wenceslaus II, 1271–1305, king of Bohemia (1278–1305) and of Poland (1300–1305), son and successor of Ottocar II. From the death (1278) of his father until 1283 the regency was exercised by Otto...

(Encyclopedia) Duarte dwärˈtə [key], 1391–1438, king of Portugal (1433–38), eldest of the five sons of John I. He was a “philosopher-king,” notable for his legal reforms and as the author of O leal consel...

(Encyclopedia) Frederick III, king of Prussia: see Frederick III, 1831–88, emperor of Germany and king of Prussia. ...

(Encyclopedia) Henry III, 1551–89, king of France (1574–89); son of King Henry II and Catherine de' Medici. He succeeded his brother, Charles IX. As a leader of the royal army in the Wars of Religion (see Religi...