LOUIS I THE GREAT SILVER DENAR____Medieval Hungary & Poland____HEAD OF A SARACEN

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FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
A BEAUTIFUL SILVER DENAR OF LOUIS I (LUDWIG I) THE GREAT OF HUNGARY FROM 1342 - 1382 AD .
Louis I the Great was King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, Jerusalem and Sicily from 1342 and of King of Poland from 1370.
THE SIZE IS 13.5 MM AND 0.52 GRAMS.
OBVERSE – +MONETA LODOVICI, Head of Saracen left
REVERSE – REGIS HVNGARIE, patriarchal cross
WHAT IS A SARACEN?
In the Middle Ages, a Saracen was any person—Arab, Turk, or other—who professed the religion of Islam. The Byzantines referred to all Muslim subjects of the caliph as Saracens. Through the Byzantines and the crusaders, the name spread into Western Europe, where it was long in general use and has survived until modern times.
LOUIS THE GREAT
Louis I (Louis the Great), king of Hungary from 1342 and of Poland from 1370, who, during much of his long reign, was involved in wars with Venice and Naples.
Louis was crowned king of Hungary in succession to his father, Charles I, on July 21, 1342. In 1346 he was defeated by the Venetians at Zara , an Adriatic port city that had been under Hungarian protection. In 1347 he led an expedition against the kingdom of Naples to avenge the murder (1345) of his younger brother, Andrew, consort of Joan I of Naples, whose new husband, Louis of Taranto, was a suspected accomplice in the murder. Louis I occupied Naples in 1348, but a plague soon forced him to retire; a later invasion (1350) also led to no permanent results.
In 1351 Louis I confirmed the Golden Bull of 1222, a charter of liberties, which he modified somewhat by the law of entail, providing that estates of nobles were to be inherited by the male line and could neither be cut up nor given away. If a line died out entirely, the estate was to revert to the crown. Also serfs were to pay their lords one-ninth of their produce. These steps made Louis virtually independent of the Diet financially.
Louis’ second war against Venice (1357–58) was more successful than his first ventures. Under the Treaty of Zara (February 1358), most of the Venetians’ Dalmatian towns went to Hungary. In the east he protected his expanded domains by defeating the Turks in northern Bulgaria.
King Casimir III of Poland, who died without sons, named Louis as his successor, and he was crowned king of Poland on Nov. 17, 1370. The Poles, however, never let him exert much real authority over them, though in 1374 they recognized his daughter Maria and her betrothed husband, Sigismund of Luxembourg, as their future queen and king.
Louis’ attention again turned to Italy when the Western Schism broke out (1378). Louis helped his protégé Charles of Durazzo conquer Naples and supplant its queen, Joan, who declared herself in favour of the antipope Clement VII. Meanwhile, Louis undertook a third war against Venice and won virtually all of Dalmatia (Treaty of Turin, Aug. 18, 1381).
King Louis I died in the following year. Maria (with Sigismund), whom he had intended to rule Poland, succeeded him in Hungary, and his other daughter, Jadwiga, became queen of Poland instead of Hungary.
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