Ladislaus II, King of Hungary

Ladislaus II (1244-1266) ruled as King of Hungary for just over a year between 1265 and 1266. He was the eldest son of the weak king Stephen II and came to power at a time of great convulsion in Hungary, which was wracked by external attack and internal conflict between two parties known to history as the Queens and the Princes. Ladislaus' father had spent his last weeks as a captive of the Princes party, who agitated against Ladislaus' mother Ibolya, the leader of the Queens.

Ladislaus seems to have sought to bring about a truce between the warring parties and married a daughter of a leading Prince, but the peace lasted barely six months. Ladislaus was killed along with most of the Queens party when a Prince force stormed Esztergom in April 1265. His newborn daughter was put aside, and his youngest brother Álmos was instead made king by the victorious Princes, who sought a pliant young monarch to better control.