List of Hungarian rulers

The following table enlists all rulers of Hungary since Arpad.

Affiliation	Ruler	Reigns of rulers	Remarks
Árpád	Árpád	896-907	founder, led Magyars into Eastern Europe
Árpád	Zoltan	907-946
non-dynastic	Val	946-952
Árpád	Taksony	952-972
Árpád	Geza	972-997
Árpád	St. Stephen (István)	997-1038	first king of Hungary
dynastic struggle 1038-1046
non dynastic	Peter Urseolo	1038-1041, 1044-1046	(Géza's grandson)
non dynastic	Sámuel Aba	1041-1044	(Husband of Géza's daughter)
Vatha pagan rising 1046-1047 ?
Árpád	Andrew I	1047-1061	Arpad dynasty restored
Árpád	Bela I	1061-1063
Árpád	Solomon (Salamon)	1063-1074
Árpád	Géza I	1074-1077
Árpád	St. Ladislaus (László)	1077-1095	All Ladislaus' are spelled with "laus" as in 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, see talk page
Árpád	Coloman or Kálmán	1095-1114	King of Hungary, & Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia
Árpád	Stephen II	1114-1131
Árpád	Béla II	1131-1141
Árpád	Géza II	1141-1161
Árpád	Stephen III	1161-1162
Árpád	Ladislaus II	1162-1163
Árpád	Stephen IV	1163
Árpád	Stephen III, restored	1163-1172
Árpád	Béla III	1172-1196
Árpád	Emeric (Imre)	1196-1204
Árpád	Ladislaus III	1204-1205
Árpád	Andrew (András) II	1205-1235
Árpád	Béla IV the Great	1235-1270	Mongol invasion
Árpád	Stephen V	1270-1272
Árpád	Ladislaus IV	1272-1290
Árpád	Andrew III	1290-1301	last of Arpad dynasty
Premyslid	Wenceslas (Vencel) III of Bohemia	1301-1305	Bohemian king, elected as King of Hungary
Wittelsbach	Otto III of Bavaria	1305-1308
Angevin	Charles (Károly) I	1308-1342	founded the Anjou line and established the Angevin dynasty in Hungary.
Angevin	Louis I the Great (Nagy Lajos)	1342-1382
Angevin	Mary	1382-1395
Angevin	Charles II	1385-1386	also King of Naples as Charles III, in opposition to Mary
Luxembourg	Sigismund (Zsigmond)	1387-1437	also Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia
Habsburg	Albert	1437-1439	son-in-law of the precedent, also German King and Albert V of Austria
Interregnum			title dispute between Vladislav and Ladislaus
Jagiellon	Ulászló I	1440-1444
Habsburg	Ladislaus Posthumus	1444-1457	also King of Bohemia
non dynastic	Matthias Corvinus the Just (Igazságos Mátyás)	1458-1490
Jagiellon	Ulászló II	1490-1516
Jagiellon	Louis II	1516-1526	killed in the Battle of Mohacs
Rival kings of Emperor Ferdinand and John Zápolya both claimed themselves as ruler of Hungary.
Habsburg	Ferdinand (Ferdinánd) I	1526-1564	brother in law of Louis II, also Holy Roman Emperor. Ottoman invasion
Zápolya	John Zápolya (Zápolya János)	1526-1540	Leader of groups of Hungarian nobles claiming no foreign ruler should be chosen King of Hungary. Claimed the throne with support of Hungarian nobles, and later the Ottoman Sultan. Ottoman invasion. (Zápolya is alternatively spelled as Szapolyai.)
Zápolya	Isabel (Izabella)	1556-1559	After the death of his husband Zápolya János the areas was mainly controlled by nobles (with the lead of Fráter György), until the nobles recalled her with her child (II Zápolya Zsigmond) as Queen.
Zápolya	John II Sigismund (Zsigmond) Zápolya	1540-1571	Son of precedents. King of Hungary and Prince of Transylvania (Erdély).
Hungary was effectively split into 3 parts: a Habsburg domain in the north and west, Ottoman domain in the center, and Transylvania in the east after 1562.
Habsburg	Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor	1563-1576
Habsburg	Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor	1572-1608
Báthory	Stephen Bathory	1571-1575	Prince of Transylvania
Báthory	Christopher (Kristóf) Bathory	1575-1581	Prince of Transylvania and brother of precedent
Báthory	Sigismund Bathory	1581-1597, August 1598- March 1599, 1599-1602	Prince of Transylvania and son of precedent. Abdicated three times, twice (1597, 1602), in favor of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II and once (1599) of his cousin Andrew Cardinal Bathory.
Báthory	Andrew Cardinal Bathory	1599	Prince of Transylvania
non dynastic	Stephen Bocskay	1604-1606	Governor(1604) and Prince (1605) of Transylvania
Rákóczy	Sigismund Rákóczy	1607-1608	elected Prince of Transylvania
Habsburg	Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor	1608-1619
Báthory	Gabriel (Gábor) Bathory	1608-1613	Prince of Transylvania
non dynastic	Gábor Bethlen	1613-1629	Prince of Transylvania
Habsburg	Ferdinand II	1618-1637
Rákóczy	George (György) I Rákóczy	1630-1648	elected Prince of Transylvania
Habsburg	Ferdinand III	1625-1657
Habsburg	Ferdinand IV	1647-1654
Rákóczy	George II Rákóczy	1648-1657	Prince of Transylvania
Habsburg	Leopold I	1655-1705
non dynastic	Emeric Thököly (or Tökölli)	1660-1682	against Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I
Movements of Hungarian liberation as a result of a prolonged war against Turks. Habsburgs began colonization of Serbs (1690) and Germans (1682-1699) in Southern Hungary.
Habsburg	Joseph I	1687-1711
Rákóczy	Francis II Rákóczy		head of liberation movement (1703-1711) and elected Ruling Prince of Transylvania
Habsburg	Charles III	1711-1740
Large scale German settlements in Hungary (1720-1800)
Habsburg	Maria Theresa (Mária Terézia)	1740-1780
Habsburg	Joseph II	1780-1790
Habsburg	Leopold II	1790-1792
Habsburg	Francis	1792-1835
Habsburg	Ferdinand V	1835-1848
The Hungarian Republic (1848-1849) was proclaimed. Croats sought autonomous government and separation from Hungary. In 1849, the Habsburgs reasserted their authority with the help of Russian troops
Habsburg	Francis Joseph I (Ferenc József)	1848-1916
Habsburg	Charles IV	1916-1918
Hungary declared complete independence from Austria on October 17 1918 and forms the Second Republic.
	Károlyi Mihály	1918-1919
Communist	Bela Kun	1919-1920	Romania invades Hungary.
Second Republic abolished.
"Monarchy"	Miklos Horthy	1920-1944	Acting as regent.
pro-Nazi	Béla Zsedényi	1944-1946	Hunary is occupied by Nazi Germany.
Third Hungarian Republic
Communist	Árpád Szakasits	1946-1950
Renamed the "Hungarian Peoples Republic"
Communist	Sándor Rónai	1950-1952
Socialist	István Dobi	1952-1956
Hungarian Revolt of 1956
Socialist	János Kádár	1956-1988	Actually Prime Minister, but had total control.
Socialist	Károly Grósz	1988-1989
Fourth Hungarian Republic
Democrat	Árpád Göncz	1990-2000
Democrat	Ferenc Mádl	2000-Present

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