Ulrich II, Count of Celje
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Portrait (from ca. 1700)
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| Holding(s) | County of Celje |
| Spouse(s) | Kantakuzina Katarina Branković |
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Titles and styles
Count
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| Noble family | Frankopan (maternal) |
| Father | Frederick II |
| Mother | Elizabeth |
| Born | 1406 Celje |
| Died | 9 November 1456 (aged 49–50) Belgrade |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Ulrich II, or Ulrich of Celje (Slovene: Ulrik Celjski, Hungarian: Cillei Ulrik, German: Ulrich II von Cilli; 1406 – 9 November 1456), was the last Princely Count of Celje.
Ulrich II. was the son of Count Frederick II of Celje and his wife Elizabeth, a scion of the Croatian House of Frankopan. Little is known of his youth. In about 1432 he married Kantakuzina Katarina Branković, daughter of Đurađ Branković, despot of Serbia., and the sister of Mara Branković.
His influence in the affairs of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire soon overshadowed that of his father, with whom he was raised to a Prince of the Empire by Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg in 1436. This led to feuds with the Austrian House of Habsburg, wounded in their rights as Styrian overlords of Celje, ending, however, in an alliance with the Habsburg King Albert II of Germany, who made Ulrich his lieutenant in Bohemia for a short while. Upon King Albert's death in 1439, Ulrich took up the cause of his widow Elizabeth of Luxembourg, and presided at the coronation of her infant son Ladislaus the Posthumous with the Holy Crown of Hungary in 1440.
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