King Louis the Great of Hungary

For King Louis the Great of Hungary, a total of 2 epidemic events are known so far. It is a person. See also scribes and groups.

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Page	DateStart date of the disease.	SummarySummary of the disease event	OriginalOriginal text	TranslationEnglish translation of the text	ReferenceReference(s) to literature	Reference translationReference(s) to the translation
1348-00-00-Apulia	1348 ^JL	The Black Death hits Apulia and other parts of Southern Italy like Calabria. King Louis the Great of Hungary flees back home from the epidemic outbreak	sequitur annus qui nostre salutis MCCCXLVIII numeratur, in quo pestis iam pridem cepta insigni strage per universam pene Italiam desevire cepit. Que, cum iam Brutios et Calabros ac universum Apulie Regnum inficere cepisset, et in dies magis obrepert, tantaque augmenteratur sevitia, ut solo contactu passim vulgaret morbos, et tabe ac pestifero odore inficeret validos, et egros biduo aut minori temporis spatio (p. 12) conficeret, ingens mortis formido Ludovicum, Ungarie regem, invasit, qua deterritus in Pannoniam aufugere quam celerrime constituit.	There follows the year which is numbered 1348 of our salvation, in which the plague, already begun some time before, began to rage with remarkable slaughter throughout almost the whole of Italy. And when it had already begun to infect the Calabrians and the entire Kingdom of Apulia, and was spreading more and more each day, and was increasing with such savagery that by mere contact it widely transmitted diseases, and by corruption and pestilential stench infected even the healthy, and carried off the sick within two days or a shorter space of time, a great fear of death seized Louis, king of Hungary; terrified by this, he resolved to flee as quickly as possible into Pannonia.	Matteo Palmieri 1918, pp. 11-12	Martin Bauch / ChatGPT 5.2
1348-00-00-Naples	1348 ^JL	Black Death leads to the withdrawal of King Louis the Great of Hungary	Eodem millesimo et temporibus maxima pestis mortalitatis fuit in civitate Neapolim, in qua mortui sunt in duobus mensibus LXIIIIm; quapropter rex Ungarie recessit inde	In the same year, and at that time, there was a very great pestilential mortality in the city of Naples, in which 64,000 people died within two months. Because of this, the Louis I of Hungary departed from there	Anonymus 1908, p. 162	Martin Bauch / ChatGPT 5.2