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Ulrich III (Slovene Ulrik Celjski) (1406 — 1456), also known as Ulrich Cillei was Count of Celje Ulrich Cillei was the son of Frederick II, Count of Celje, and Elizabeth Frankopan. Of his youth we know nothing certain. About 1432 he married Catherine, daughter of George Brankovich, despot of Serbia. His influence in the troubled affairs of Hungary and the Empire early overshadowed that of his father, together with whom he was made a prince of the Empire by the emperor Sigismund (1436). Hence feuds with the Habsburgs, wounded in their rights as overlords of Celje, ending, however, in an alliance with the Habsburg king Albert II., who made Ulrich for a short while his lieutenant in Bohemia. After Albert's death (1439) Ulrich took up the cause of his widow Elizabeth, and presided at the coronation of her infant son Ladislaus V Posthumus (1440). A feud with the Hunyadis followed, embittered by John Hunyadi's attack on George Brankovich of Serbia (1444) and his refusal to recognize Ulrich's claim to Bosnia on the death of Stephen Tvrtko II (1443). In 1446 Hunyadi, now governor of Hungary, harried the Celje territories in Croatia-Slavonia; but his power was broken at Kosovo (1448), and Count Ulrich was able to lead a successful crusade, nominally in the Habsburg interest, into Hungary (1450). In 1452 he forced the emperor Frederick III to hand over the boy king Ladislaus V to his keeping, and became thus practically ruler of Hungary. In 1454 his power was increased by his succession to his father's vast wealth; and in 1456 he was named by Ladislaus his lieutenant in Hungary. The Hunyadis now conspired to destroy him. On the 8th of November, in spite of warnings, he entered Belgrade with the king; the next day he was attacked by Laszlo Hunyadi and his friends, and done to death. With him died the male line of the Counts of Celje. Count Ulrich's ambition was boundless, his passions unbridled; but the hostile judgments passed by Aeneas Sylvius and other contemporaries upon him must be read with caution. References This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Categories: 1911 Britannica | 1406 births | 1456 deaths

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	Ulrich III of Celje - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (380 words) Ulrich III (Slovenian Ulrik Celjski) (1406 — 1456), also known as Ulrich Cillei was Count of Celje. Ulrich Cillei was the son of Frederick II, Count of Celje, and Elizabeth Frankopan. After Albert's death (1439) Ulrich took up the cause of his widow Elizabeth, and presided at the coronation of her infant son Ladislaus V Posthumus (1440). László Hunyadi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (364 words) At the diet of Buda (1455) he resigned all his dignities, because of the accusations of Ulrich Cillei and the other enemies of his house, but a reconciliation was ultimately patched up and he was betrothed to Mária, the daughter of the palatine, László Garai. A beginning was to be made with the fortress of Belgrade, of which László was commandant, Cillei intending to take the king with him to Belgrade and assassinate László within its walls. On the following morning (9th of November 1456) Cillei, during a private interview, suddenly drew upon László, but was himself cut down by the commandant's friends, who rushed in on hearing the clash of weapons.
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