A ƙarshen 1437, Estates sun zaɓi Albert V na Austria a matsayin Sarkin Hungary.Ya mutu sakamakon ciwon daji a lokacin wani farmaki da sojoji suka kai wa Daular Ottoman a shekara ta 1439. Ko da yake matar Albert, Elizabeth ta Luxembourg, ta haifi ɗa mai suna Ladislaus V, wanda ya rasu bayan mutuwarsa, yawancin manyan mutane sun fi son sarki mai iya yin yaƙi.Sun ba da kambi ga Władysław III na Poland.Dukansu Ladislaus da Władysław sun sami rawani wanda ya haifar da yakin basasa.John Hunyadi babban sojan Hungary ne kuma jigo a siyasa a Tsakiya da Kudu maso Gabashin Turai a cikin karni na 15.Władysław ya nada Hunyadi (tare da abokinsa na kud da kud, Nicholas Újlaki) su ba da umurni ga tsaron kudanci a shekara ta 1441. Hunyadi ya kai farmaki da dama a kan Daular Usmaniyya.A lokacin "dogon yakinsa" na 1443-1444, sojojin Hungary sun kutsa har zuwa Sofia a cikin Daular Ottoman.Kungiyar Mai Tsarki ta shirya wani sabon yaki, amma Ottomans sun halaka sojojin Kirista a yakin Varna a shekara ta 1444, inda aka kashe Władysław.Manyan mutane da suka taru suka zabi dan John Hunyadi, Matthias Hunyadi, sarki a shekara ta 1458. Sarki Matthias ya gabatar da garambawul na kasafin kudi da na soja.Ƙara yawan kuɗin shiga na sarauta ya ba Matthias damar kafa da kuma kula da runduna.Ya ƙunshi galibin sojojin haya na Czech, Jamus da Hungarian, "Black Army" na ɗaya daga cikin ƙwararrun sojojin soja na farko a Turai.^[63] Matthias ya ƙarfafa hanyar sadarwa na kagara a kan iyakar kudanci, ^[64] amma bai bi manufofin mahaifinsa na gaba da Ottoman ba.Maimakon haka, ya kaddamar da hare-hare a Bohemia, Poland, da Ostiriya, yana mai cewa yana kokarin kulla kawance mai karfi da zai kori Ottoman daga Turai.Kotun Matthias ta kasance "babu shakka a cikin mafi hazaka a Turai".^[65] Laburarensa, Bibliotheca Corviniana tare da rubuce-rubucensa 2,000, shine mafi girma na biyu mafi girma a cikin tarin littattafan zamani.Matthias shine sarki na farko a arewacin Alps wanda ya gabatar da salon Renaissance na Italiya a cikin masarautunsa.Uwargidansa ta biyu, Beatrice na Naples, ya yi wahayi zuwa gare shi, ya sa aka sake gina masarautun Buda da Visegrád a ƙarƙashin ikon gine-ginen Italiyanci da masu fasaha bayan 1479.