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
Where they went
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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