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by a difeafe which carried him oft’ in 1095, after a glo¬ 
rious reign of feventeen years. His obedience to the papal 
fee procured him the honour of canonization from pope 
Geleftine III. 
LAD'ISLAUS III. king of Hungary, furnatned Kuhn, or 
the Bold, came to the throne in 1272, after the death of his 
father, Stephen IV. Soon after his accefiion, in conjunc¬ 
tion with the emperor Rodolph, he defeated the Bohe¬ 
mian king Othogar, who loft his life in the affion. Re¬ 
turning victorious to his country, he gave himfelf up to 
voluptuoufnefs, and repudiated his lawful wife, in order 
to indulge in debauchery with fome women of the Tartar 
nation of Cumans. He opprefled his nobles, and plun¬ 
dered the churches and monafteries ; and, paying no re-, 
gard to the admonitions of a legate fent from Rome to 
reclaim him, was excommunicated by him. Meantime 
his neglect of the government, and the difaffeCtion of his 
lubjefts, invited the incurfions of the Tartars, by whom 
Hungary was fo defolated, that, for want of beafts, men, 
and even the nobles themlelves, were obliged to draw the 
plough. This circumftance has been tranfmitted to pofte- 
rity in the proverbial phrafe of “ the ploughs of Ladiflaus.” 
At length, continuing to give his confidence to the Cu- 
nrans, lie was aflaiiinated by them in his tent in the year 
1290. 
' LAD'ISLAUS IV. king of Hungary, alfo king of Po¬ 
land under the title of Uladiflaus V. See Poland. 
LAD'ISLAUS V. king of Hungary, the pofthumous 
fern of Albert of Auftria and Elizabeth of Hungary, born 
in 144.0, was bringing up at the court of the emperor Fre¬ 
deric III. his uncle, when, at the death of Ladiflaus IV. 
he fucceeded to the throne of Hungary, being then in the 
fifth year of his age. The Hungarians fent to demand 
their prince, who was alfo by inheritance king of Bohe¬ 
mia and duke of Auftria; but it was not till 1452 that 
they obtained his reftitution. It was agreed that, during 
his minority, Hungary fliould be governed by John Cor- 
vinus, fon of Huniades; Bohemia by George Podiebrad ; 
and Auftria by Ulric, count of Ciley, the young king’s 
uncle, who was to have the guardianfliip of his perfon. 
The count endeavoured to fupplant John Corvinus, but 
in vain ; and he obtained great honour by his defeat of the 
Turks before Belgrade. At the death of John, the go¬ 
vernment was transferred to his fon Ladiflaus, to the great 
mortification of the count of Ciley, who endeavoured to 
procure his aflaftination ; but he was himfelf killed at 
Belgrade by the friends of that family. The young king 
was greatly incenfed at the death of his uncle, but found 
it neceflary to give a pardon to the fons of Corvinus, 
which he confirmed by an oath over the holy facrament. 
On returning to Buda, however, he caufed Ladiflaus and 
his brother Matthias to be apprehended, and the former 
to be publicly executed. He foon after went to Prague, 
in order to celebrate his nuptials with Magdalen of France, 
daughter to Charles VII. but, in the mid ft of the feftivi- 
ties, he was carried off by a fudden difeafe, not without 
fufpicion of poifon, in 1457, at the age of feventeen. 
LAD'ISLAUS VI. king of Hungary, w'as fon of Cafi- 
mir IV. king of Poland. In 1470 he was chofen king of 
Bohemia, and was foon involved in a war with Matthias 
king of Hungary, which was terminated by a peace in 
1475. At the death of Matthias in 1490, Ladiflaus was 
elected to fucceed him, chiefly through the influence of 
the widow-queen, Beatrice, wdiom he promifed to marry. 
He had to make his way to the crown againft the hoftile 
oppofition of his competitors, one of whom was his own 
brother, and at length was quietly feated. He broke his 
word with Beatrice, under pretext of her fierility, and 
married Anne, daughter of the count of Candale. His 
difpofition was pacific and indolent, little fitted to con¬ 
tend with the dilorders, foreign and domeftic, which ha- 
rafied his kingdom; and from his bulk and inactivity he 
acquired from his fubjeCts the appellation of ox. The 
Turks having threatened Hungary, Ladiflaus wifhed to 
avert the danger by a treaty, but was prevented by the 
ianatic archbiftiop of Strigonia, who preached up a cru- 
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fiule, and collected a large body of peafatlts. Thcfe turn¬ 
ed their arms againft their own nobles, and committed 
enormous exceffes, which were quelled by the count of 
See pus with equal cruelty. Ladiflaus, though not war¬ 
like, was by no means inattentive to his regal duties, and 
employed much time in collecting all the Hungarian laws 
and the decrees of the king into one body, which has ever 
fince formed the bafe of the conftitution and jurifpru- 
dence of the country. He died in 1516, after a reign of 
twenty-five years over Hungary; and, in about ten years 
after, the whole kingdom came into the polfeflion of the 
houfe of Auftria, as related under the article Hungary, 
vol. x. p. 465. Indeed the reigns of the kings of Hun¬ 
gary are fo obfeure, and fo connected with the kingdom of 
Poland and with the houfe of Auftria, that Dr. Blair, in 
his Chronological Tables, does not aftign to Hungary a 
column as a feparate kingdom at any time. 
LAD'ISLAUS, or Uladisi.aus, the names of feveral 
kings of Poland. See that article. 
LAD'ISLAUS, or Lan'celot, king of Naples. Sec 
that article. 
LAD'IZIN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Bra- 
claw : fourteen miles Couth of Braclaw. 
LA'DLE, /. [hlaeble, from lilaban, Sax. leavgk, Erfe.] 
A large fpoon; a veil'd with a long handle, ul'ed in throw¬ 
ing out any liquid from the veil'd containing.it.—When 
the materials of glafs have been kept long in fufion, the 
mixture cafts up the l'uperftuous fait, which the workmen 
take oil' with ladles. Boyle. 
A ladle for our fiver difh. 
Is what I want, is what I wifli. Prior. 
The receptacles of a mill-wheel, into which the water 
falling turns it. 
Ladle of a Gun, the inftrument wherewith the powder 
is put into the piece. It is made of a plate of copper 
bowed in form of a half-cylinder, rounded at one end, 
the other being fixed upon a long Haft': this, filled with 
powder, the gunner carries, with his left hand under the 
end of it, to keep the powder from falling out, till he en¬ 
ters it in the muzzle of the piece; when he has carried 
the powder home to the charged cylinder, he turns the 
ladle, that the powder may fall out, and withdraws it. 
Ladles are fitted to the bore of each gun, and hold pow¬ 
der fufticient for the charge. Small ladles, with fliort 
handles of w-ood, are alfo ufed in filling the fuzes of ftiells, 
or any other compofition for filling the cafes of rockets, 
&c. 
LA'DLE-BEARER to the Janiflaries in Turkey, a 
perfon of greater confequence than his office, if we are to 
judge from European manners, would lead us to fufpect. 
The fenfe of honour is not, as with us, attached to the 
colours-, they may lofe them without much danger of dis¬ 
grace ; but the lofs of their ladle and kettle is alnioft irre¬ 
parable, and they efteem it as their greateft calamity. In 
order to avoid this, every odak, or regiment, of which 
there are a hundred and one, has two of each. When 
both are taken by an enemy, they confider the regiment 
as deftroyed, and a new one is formed, to whom new la¬ 
dles and kettles are given. Thefe ladles and kettles are 
never removed without receiving lome military honours 
When the ladle-bearer goes round, to ferve out the foup, 
or mefles, he is always attended by a guard. Attached 
as our citizens are to good eating and drinking, they ne¬ 
ver thought of thus honouring the ladle and kettle; nor 
of carrying them in proceflion on lord-mayor’s day. It 
is farther added that the Janiflaries honour alfo their 
wooden fpoons, and efteem them as much a part of their 
military drefs as fwords are regarded by Englilh or French 
fcldiers. Cofume, of Turkey, y\.o. 1802. 
LA'DLE-FULL, J. —If a footman be going up with 3 
difh of foup, let the cook with a ladle-full dribble his li¬ 
very all the way up ftaks. Swift. 
LADO'CO (los Codos de), mountains, which begin in 
Portugal, and are continued into Spain, dividing Galicia 
from the Afturias. 
X LADO'DA, 
