Editing Duke (section)

=== Hungary ===
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In the [[Kingdom of Hungary]] no ducal principalities existed but duchies were often formed for members of the dynasty as [[appanage]]s. During the rule of the [[Arpads|Árpád dynasty]] dukes held territorial powers, some of them even minted coins, but later this title became more often nominal.
These duchies usually were
* the Duchy of Nitra
* the Duchy of Bihar
* the Duchy of [[Transylvania]] (consisting of the [[voivodship]] of Transylvania and some other counties)

In the Jagiellonian era (1490–1526) only two dukes did not belong to the royal dynasty: [[John Corvin]] (the illegitimate son of [[Matthias Corvinus]]) and [[Lawrence of Ilok|Lőrinc Újlaki]] (whose father was the titular king of [[Bosnia (region)|Bosnia]]), and both bore the title as royal dukes.

After the [[Battle of Mohács]] the Habsburg kings rewarded Hungarian aristocrats (like the [[House of Esterházy|Esterházys]]) with princely titles, but they created these titles as Holy Roman Emperors, not as kings of Hungary.