Uladislaus II, Hung. Ulászló II, c.1456-1516, king of Hungary (1490-1516) and, as Ladislaus II, king of Bohemia (1471-1516); son of Casimir IV of Poland. Designated by George of Podebrad as his successor, he was elected to the Bohemian throne. Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, invaded his territories and in 1478 acquired Moravia, Silesia, and Lusatia from him. In Bohemia, Uladislaus openly favored the Roman Church against the Hussites. His weak rule enabled the nobles to pass laws in the diets of 1487 and 1497 that made the peasants virtual serfs. On the death of Matthias Corvinus (1490), the Hungarian magnates elected Uladislaus king in preference to Maximilian of Hapsburg (later Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I). In Hungary the nobles also exploited the king's weakness, abolishing the reforms of Matthias Corvinus and worsening the lot of the peasants. When Cardinal Bakocz issued the call for a crusade against the Ottomans, the peasants revolted and were cruelly repressed by John Zapolya (later John I). In 1515, Uladislaus concluded with Maximilian I a treaty that eventually brought Hungary and Bohemia under Hapsburg rule—his daughter Anna was promised to Archduke Ferdinand (later Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I); his son and successor, Louis II, was to marry Ferdinand's sister, Mary; if Louis died childless (as he did), Hungary and Bohemia were to pass to the Hapsburgs.

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Pál Kinizsi was a Hungarian general in the army of king Matthias Corvinus.

He was Comes of Temes (Comes Temesiensis) and General Captain of The Lower Parts of the Kingdom of Hungary (generalis capitaneus inferiorum partium regni). He is known about his victory over the Ottomans in the Battle of Kenyérmező in October 1479.

He married Benigna Magyar, the daughter of Balázs Magyar, another general of Corvinus. His central estate was the Castle of Nagyvázsony. He had no known issue.

After the death of king Matthias he supported Uladislaus II and defeated the former king's mercenary Black Army which became a robber band after its dissolution.

Although in fact he originated from the lower gentry, he is also a hero of some Hungarian and Romanian folk tales along with king Matthias Corvinus as an extremely strong former miller's apprenctice. According to these tales, the king was hunting near the mill where worked and asked for a drink; Kinizsi, to show his strength, served the cup on a millstone. The king, impressed, took him into his service, where Kinizsi's strength, prowess and loyalty earned him rapid promotion. He is said to have wielded two greatswords in battle and to have danced a victory dance after the Battle of Kenyérmező with a captured Turk under each arm and a third held by his belt in his teeth.