Kingdom of Hungary
On 12 February 1298, Wenceslaus was betrothed to Elizabeth, the only child of King Andrew III of Hungary.
His father accepted the crown of Hungary on behalf of Wenceslaus III after Andrew's death in 1301. On 27 August 1301, Wenceslaus III was crowned in Székesfehérvár as the King of Hungary and as such assumed the name Ladislaus V (Hungarian: László, Czech, Slovak and Croatian: Ladislav). At that time, the Kingdom of Hungary was split into several de facto principalities, and Wenceslaus was only accepted as the King of Hungary by the rulers in modern Slovakia (Matthew Csák), in Burgenland (the Güssings) and on territory around the capital, Buda. Wenceslaus took the name of Ladislaus in honor to one of the most important figures in the Hungarian early history: the King Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary.
However, soon Matthew Csák switched sides in 1303 and started to support Wenceslaus' rival Charles Robert of Anjou, who was supported also by the Holy See. Consequently, the young Wenceslaus, in Ofen (Buda), became afraid and wrote to his father in Prague for help. His father took a large army and invaded Buda, but having considered the situation, he took his son and the Hungarian crown and returned to Bohemia. Ivan of Güssing was named to represent Wenceslaus III in Hungary. After his father's death, Wenceslaus III decided to renounce the Hungarian throne, and on 6 December 1305, he relinquished the crown to Otto, Duke of Lower Bavaria. But Otto, supported only by the Güssings, was imprisoned in 1307 and abdicated the throne in 1308, leaving Charles Robert as ruler of Hungary. In Hungarian historiography he is noted as an antiking during the interregnum of 1301–1310.
His engagement to Elizabeth of Hungary was broken off in 1305.
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