MISSING IN ACTION? | WHAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE EARLY LIVES OF MARY OF HUNGARY AND ANNE JAGIELLO

The case In 1515, the "First Viennese Congress" (more aptly: Fürstentag) culminated in the marriage of Emperor Maximilian’s granddaughter Mary to Louis, the son of King Vladislav II of Hungary, as well as Vladislav’s daughter Anne to —a notorious particularity— one of Maximilian’s grandsons, either Charles or Ferdinand. Years of negotiations preceded the union of the two dynasties which was intended to bolster the defence against the expanding Ottoman Empire. To tie the knot even more tightl...