(Lajos Nagy). Born Mar. 5, 1326; died Sept. 11, 1382, in Nagyszombat. King of Hungary from 1342 to 1382 and king of Poland (called Louis I the Great or Louis of Hungary) from 1370. Member of the Anjou dynasty. During Louis I’s rule in Hungary, laws were promulgated in 1351 promoting the consolidation of feudal relations and intensifying the exploitation of peasants. Louis I waged many wars of expansion against such countries as the Kingdom of Naples (1347–48, 1350), Venice, and Lithuania (1351, 1372, 1377). In 1370 he gained the Polish throne under a dynastic treaty. The Polish nobility forced him to proclaim the Koŝice Privilege of 1374, which strengthened the nobility’s influence in the country’s economic and political life. In Hungarian bourgeois-noble historiography Louis I was known as the founder of “the Hungarian Empire, washed by three seas.”