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Vladislaus, Wladislaus, Ladislaus or Ladislas (Bulgarian, Serbian, and Russian: Vladislav; Czech: Ladislav and Vladislav; German: Ladislaus; Hungarian: László and Ulászló; Italian: Ladislao; Polish: Władysław (with variants Ładysław and Włodzisław), is the name of several central and east European rulers of the past.

The Latin form Ladislaus is derived from the original Slavic Vladislav and the modern vernacular variations reflect the phonetic and orthographic evolutions of the basic form as it was retained or adopted in different languages. Medieval Latin did not have a universally consistent way of rendering such names, which in turn has led to the various forms still encountered in English works. In the list below monarchs are arranged according to territory and listed under the relevant vernacular forms.

Duke of Austria

Ladislaus the Posthumous 1440–1457, also king Ladislav of Bohemia and Laszlo V of Hungary (see below))

Dukes of Bohemia

Vladislav I 1109–1117 and 1120–1125
Vladislav II 1140–1158 = King Vladislav I of Bohemia
Vladislav Jindřich 1197

Kings of Bohemia

Note distinction between Ladislav and Vladislav

Vladislav I 1158–1173 = Duke Vladislav II of Bohemia
Ladislav the Posthumous 1440–1457 = Duke Ladislaus of Austria, King László V of Hungary
Vladislav II 1471–1516 = King Ulászló II of Hungary

Emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria

Ivan Vladislav 1015–1018

Kings of Hungary

Note the distinction between László and Ulászló

László I 1077–1095 = Saint László
László II 1162–1163
László III 1204–1205
László IV 1272–1290
László V the Posthumous 1440 and 1444–1457 = Duke Ladislaus of Austria, King Ladislav of Bohemia
Ulászló I 1440–1444 = King Władysław III Warneńczyk of Poland
Ulászló II 1490–1516 = King Vladislav II of Bohemia

Additional Note

Vencel 1301–1305 = King Václav III of Bohemia reigned under the name László, but is not recognized as such in Hungarian historiography.

King of Naples

Ladislao 1386–1414

Princes of Poland

Władysław I Herman 1079–1102
Władysław II Wygnaniec 1138–1146
Władysław III Laskonogi 1202 and 1228
Władysław IV Łokietek 1306–1320 = King Władysław I of Poland

Kings of Poland

Władysław I Łokietek 1320–1333 = Prince Władysław IV of Poland (also Władysław I the Elbow-high and Władysław the Short)
Władysław II Jagiełło 1386–1434 = Grand Duke Jogaila of Lithuania
Władysław III Warneńczyk 1434–1444 = King Ulászló I of Hungary
Władysław IV Zygmunt Waza 1632–1648

Kings of Serbia

Stefan Vladislav I 1233–1243
Stefan Vladislav II 1322–1324

Rulers of Wallachia

Vladislav I 1364–1376
Vladislav II 1447–1448 and 1448–1456
Vladislav III 1523 and 1524 and 1525

Other than rulers

Ladislas Starevich (1882-1965), born Władysław Starewicz, a Polish-Russian-French animator
Władysław Szpilman, a famous pianist, composer, novelist and survivor of the Warsaw ghetto
Ted Knight, Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka, American actor