Politics of the Kingdom of Hungary (1270s)

Timeline

1. 1270–1272Buda · HungaryBela IV, who rebuilt Hungary after the Mongol invasion, died in 1270; his eldest son Stephen V succeeded him but died early after only two years of rule, failing to consolidate the centralizing legacy his father left behind, and a succession crisis soon emerged.
2. 1272–1276Buda · HungaryTen-year-old Louis IV acceded under the regency of his mother Elizabeth of Bohemia; the court was dominated by the dowager queen's faction, while great nobles across the realm took the opportunity to expand their lands and judicial rights, and royal control over the border counties declined markedly.
3. 1276–1280Kingdom of Hungary · HungaryLouis IV, raised among the Cumans from childhood, was called the King of the Cumanians, provoking conservative nobles' displeasure; in the late 1270s noble factions attacked one another, minted coin and levied taxes on their own authority, further dissolving the kingdom's central authority and keeping politics in constant turmoil.