Person1206 – 1270

Béla IV of Hungary

King of Hungary, routed by the Mongols at Mohi in 1241, who after their withdrawal rebuilt the kingdom with a programme of castle building

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    1241Battle of Mohimonarch

    Batu and Subutai surrounded and annihilated the army of King Béla IV of Hungary at Mohi on the Sajó River. Hungary was ravaged until the Mongols withdrew the next year.

People who appear alongside

  • Batu Khan1207 – 1255

    Grandson of Genghis Khan who led the European campaign of 1236–1242 and founded the Golden Horde with its capital at Sarai on the Volga

  • Subutai1175 – 1248

    General of Genghis Khan and Ögedei, who with Jebe defeated the Rus at the Kalka and was the operational commander of Batu’s European campaign

Themes this person appears in

  • The Mongol Conquests1206 – 1294

    From the rise of Genghis Khan to the Yuan conquest of the Song — eighty years in which the Mongols swept Eurasia from Goryeo to Hungary