Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary, also known as Ladislaus Jagiellon ( Hungarian: II. Ulászló, Croatian: Vladislav II. Jagelović); 1 March 1456, Krakow, Poland – 13 March 1516, Buda, Hungary, was King of Bohemia from 1471 and King of Hungary from 1490 until his death in 1516.
Vladislaus was born Wladysław on March 1, 1456, the son of King Casimir IV of Poland and Great Prince of Lithuania, the then head of the Polish ruling dynasty of Jagiellon, and of Elizabeth of Bohemia, daughter of Albert II of Germany. He was christened as the namesake of his maternal uncle King Ladislaus the Posthumous of Bohemia and his late paternal uncle Vladislaus of Varna, an earlier king of Hungary.
