HUNGARY LOUIS I THE GREAT OF ANJOU HUN POL 1342-1382 AR DENAR .54g 14mm 2h H547

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HUNGARY LOUIS I THE GREAT OF ANJOU KING OF HUNGARY & POLAND 1342-1382
AR DENAR STRUCK 1373-75 .54g 14mm 2h HUSZAR 547 EX ROSENBLUM
SARACEN BUST L  MONETA LODOVICI
PATRIARCHAL CROSS SURROUNDED BY 8 DOTS  REGIS HUNGARIE
RARE EARLY HUNGARIAN KING
I WILL SHIP OVERSEAS ONLY THROUGH THE GLOBAL SHIPPING PROGRAM
Louis was born in 1326, 3
rd
son of Charles I of Hungary and Elizabeth of Poland.  After Charles died, Louis inherited a fortune in both territories and money, and although he was of age, his mother wielded much power over his decisions.  He (she) fought with Lithuania and Croatia and after his brother Andrew was assassinated with the Kingdom of Naples.  He won back many seized territories from the Golden Horde in the 1350’s.  After his uncle, Casimir III died he inherited Poland in 1370.  He initiated the compellation of the Illuminated Chronicles and is the only Hungarian monarch to receive the epithet of ‘The Great’.  He was succeeded by his daughter Mary in Hungary and daughter Hedwig in Poland.
The Romans conquered the territories west of the Danube by 9 BC and Pannonia became part of the Empire until the Huns swept through at the end of the 4
th
century.  The area was subsequently held by Ostrogoths, Lombards, Gepids and Avars. Hungary was established in 895 as a federation of united tribes in 972.  Geza of the Arpad Dynasty became its 1
st
prince and his son Stephan the 1
st
King of the Catholic Apostolic Kingdom of Hungary.  In 1241, the Mongols killed or enslaved one million Hungarians.  The Ottoman-Hungarian Wars weakened the kingdom but it was revived by the Angevin kings in the 15
th
century.  It disintegrated in 1526 after the Battle of Mohacs and fell to the Ottoman Turks.  Hungary was then divided between the Ottomans and Austrian Hapsburgs, and the Hungarians were left with a small percentage of what they once had.  They won back partial independence in 1711 and total independence in 1867.  The monarchy was broken up after WWI between the Allied Atlantic countries and overrun by Nazis in WWII.  Afterwards, Hungary became Communistic until 1989 when it won independence as a democracy.  It joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004.