stephen hungarian pronounced romanian hungarian commander judge royal rose power hungary king death sided later defeated prince john battle result cruelty especially deposed king died shortly family history family powerful influential hungarian noble family 14th 17th century branches family produced princes king poland belonged powerful family branch family coat arms granted career took bitter defeat battle decided support iii throne supreme commander army infantry cavalry inexperienced military leadership actual leadership shared serbian waged war bosnia sent free certain king new campaign involve hungarian troops assistance small serbian contingent wrote cousin prince stephen iii wait merge armies merging failed movement hungarian troops resulted stephen defeat battle july august armies merged helped stephen rid turks consultation took place city invaded southern army stephen aid attacking eastern men offensive began early november defeated strong army border armies lost men november captured capital met stephen swore eternal allegiance presence pledged pursue great crusade turks november reported town officials hands added aside soon join november fell army november prince time stephen retreated return army reclaim throne december met battle possessed small army killed battle battle bread field governor late august ottoman expedition bosnia commanded invaded force men turks moved quickly land giving little time gather militia ban promised aid approached turkish raised camp plain totally unaware way early morning october appeared heights brook ali forced stand ground order secure eventual evacuate booty ordered army prepare battle supported second line comprised right flank hungarians comprised left flank heavy cavalry placed middle ottoman leaders disagreement preparations battle delayed hours idle waiting confident arrive minute gave order attack opened attack routed followed fate wounded killed later hungarian line pressured retreat centre charged heavy cavalry fell horse alerted companions interpreted bad advised turn retreat mountains ignored advice head cavalry charged ottoman line great force routing ali charged cavalry fierce battle took place lasted hours seriously injured wounds horse killed surrounded wall corpses barely holding life lose battle army appeared hill drums making noise serbs assisted numerous king charged turks turks taken surprise slaughtered furious renewed attack managed save turks survived massacre fled mountains majority killed local population ali spoke romanian peasant clothes fled turks died battle lost hungarians commanders troops dancing dead companion aftermath accused excessive cruelty disposed died shortly family return rule princes
Stephen V Báthory