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=== Last years (1377–1382)=== [[File:Louis I (Millennium Monument).jpg|thumb|Louis on [[Hősök tere|Heroes Square]], [[Budapest]]]] Tvrtko I of Bosnia had himself crowned king, adopting the title of "King of Serbia, Bosnia and the Coastland", in 1377.{{sfn|Halecki|1991|p=63}} Whether Louis had approved Tvrtko's coronation cannot be decided.{{sfn|Halecki|1991|p=63}}{{sfn|Engel|2001|p=163}} A [[War of Chioggia|new war broke out]] between Venice and Genoa in 1378.{{sfn|Fine|1994|p=393}} Louis supported the Genoese and Trogir became the regular base of the Genoese fleet, which transformed Dalmatia into an important [[Theater (warfare)|theater of war]].{{sfn|Solymosi|Körmendi|1981|p=224}}{{sfn|Fine|1994|p=393}} Louis also sent reinforcements to Francesco I da Carrara to fight against the Venetians.{{sfn|Solymosi|Körmendi|1981|p=224}} The cardinals who had turned against [[Pope Urban VI]] elected a new pope, [[Antipope Clement VII|Clement VII]] on 20 September 1378, which gave rise to the [[Western Schism]].{{sfn|Solymosi|Körmendi|1981|p=224}} Louis acknowledged Urban VI as the legitimate pope and offered him support to fight against his opponents in Italy.{{sfn|Solymosi|Körmendi|1981|p=224}}{{sfn|Kristó|1988|p=175}} As Joanna I of Naples decided to join Clement VII's camp, Pope Urban excommunicated and dethroned her on 17 June 1380.{{sfn|Goldstone|2009|p=292}} The pope acknowledged Charles of Durazzo, who had lived in Louis's court, as the lawful king of Naples.{{sfn|Goldstone|2009|p=292}} After Charles of Durazzo promised that he would not claim Hungary against Louis's daughters, Louis dispatched him to invade Southern Italy at the head of a large army.{{sfn|Engel|2001|p=170}}{{sfn|Goldstone|2009|p=293}} Within a year, Charles of Durazzo occupied the Kingdom of Naples, and forced Queen Joanna to surrender to him on 26 August 1381.{{sfn|Goldstone|2009|p=300}}{{sfn|Solymosi|Körmendi|1981|p=225}} The envoys of Louis and Venice had meanwhile started negotiations on a [[Peace of Turin|new peace treaty]], which was signed in Turin on 24 August 1381.{{sfn|Solymosi|Körmendi|1981|pp=224–225}} According to the treaty, Venice renounced Dalmatia and also promised to pay 7,000 golden florins as an annual tribute to Hungary.{{sfn|Engel|2001|p=162}} Louis also stipulated that Venice was to transfer the relics of St [[Paul of Thebes]] to the newly established Pauline monastery at Budaszentlőrinc.{{sfn|Engel|2001|p=171}} Royal charters referred to military actions in Lodomeria and Wallachia in the first half of 1382, but no further information of those wars was preserved.{{sfn|Kristó|1988|p=176}} Louis, whose health was quickly deteriorating, invited the representatives of the Polish prelates and lord for a meeting in Zólyom (now [[Zvolen]] in Slovakia).{{sfn|Halecki|1991|p=75}} Upon his demand, the Poles swore loyalty to his daughter, Mary, and her fiancé, [[Sigismund of Luxemburg]], on 25 July 1382.{{sfn|Halecki|1991|p=75}} Louis died in Nagyszombat (now [[Trnava]] in Slovakia) in the night on 10 or 11 September 1382.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Louis I. of Hungary | volume= 17 |last= Bain |first= Robert Nisbet |author-link= Robert Nisbet Bain| page = 49 |short= 1 }}</ref>{{sfn|Kristó|1988|p=177}} He was buried in the [[Székesfehérvár Cathedral]] in a chapel that had been built upon his orders.{{sfn|Engel|2001|p=173}}
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