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Ladislaus III

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 7, 2023
Entity authorityQ1199701 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ladislaus III (also spelled as Vladislav III or Władysław III) may refer to:

Ladislaus III of Hungary (1201–1205), Arpad king

Władysław III Spindleshanks (1165–1231), Duke of Poland

Władysław III of Poland (1424–1444), also king of Hungary, known posthumously as Ladislaus of Varna

Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (1456–1516), Jagiellon ruler who was sometimes referred to as Vladislav III of Bohemia

Vladislav III of Wallachia, Prince of Wallachia (d.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1201, 1205, 1165, 1231—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ladislaus, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ladislaus III” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.