See LAKE DWELLINGS.
LADE, Naval Battle of (B. C. 495).
See PERSIA: B. C. 521-493.
LADIES' PEACE, The.
See ITALY: A. D. 1527-1529.
LADISLAS, King of Naples, A. D. 1386-1414.
LADISLAUS I. (called Saint),
King of Hungary, A. D. 1077-1095.
Ladislaus II., King of Hungary, 1162.
Ladislaus III., King of Hungary, 1204-1205.
Ladislaus IV. (called The Cuman),
King of Hungary, 1272-1290.
Ladislaus V. (called The Posthumous),
King, of Hungary and Bohemia, 1439-1457.
Ladislaus VI. (Jagellon),
King of Hungary, 1440-1444;
King of Poland, 1434-1444.
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LADOCEA, OR LADOKEIA, Battle of.
Fought in what was called the Cleomenic War, between
Cleomenes, king of Sparta, and the Achæan League, B. C. 226.
The battle was fought near the city of Megalopolis, in
Arcadia, which belonged to the League and which was threatened
by Cleomenes. The latter won a complete victory, and Lydiades,
of Megalopolis, one of the noblest of the later Greeks, was
slain.
_C. Thirlwall,
History of Greece,
chapter 62._
LADY, Original use of the title.
"Hlæfdige," the Saxon word from which our modern English word
"lady" comes, was the highest female title among the
West-Saxons, being reserved for the king's wife.
_E. A. Freeman,
History of the Norman Conquest of England,
volume 1, note F._