Maria Arpad of Hungary

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Maria of Hungary (c. 1257 - 25 March 1323) of the Arpad dynasty was Queen consort of Kingdom of Naples.

She was (possibly the eldest) daughter of Stephen V of Hungary (d. 1272) and his wife, queen Elisabeth, who was daughter of Zayhan of Kuni, a chief of the Cuman tribe and had been a pagan before her marriage. Her brother Ladislaus IV of Hungary ruled as king from 1272 to 1290.

In 1270 when twelve, she married the future Charles II of Naples (1254 – 1309), the eldest son and heir of Charles I of Sicily and Beatrice of Provence.

They had fourteen children:

  1. Charles Martel of Anjou, titular King of Hungary
  2. Saint Louis of Toulouse (February 9, 1275, Nocera – August 19, 1298, Chateau de Brignoles), Bishop of Toulouse
  3. Robert I of Naples, King of Naples
  4. Philip I of Taranto, Prince of Achaea and Taranto, Despot of Romania, Lord of Durazzo, titular Emperor of Constantinople
  5. Raymond Berengar (1281–1307), Count of Provence, Prince of Piedmont and Andria
  6. John (1283 – aft. March 16, 1308), a priest
  7. Tristan (1284–bef. 1288)
  8. Peter (1291 – August 29, 1315, Battle of Montecatini), Count of Gravina
  9. John of Gravina (1294 – April 5, 1336, Naples), Duke of Durazzo, Prince of Achaea, and Count of Gravina, married March 1318 (divorced 1321) Matilda of Hainaut (November 29, 1293–1336), and married secondly November 14, 1321 Agnes of Périgord (d. 1345)
  10. Margaret (Marguerite) (1273– December 31, 1299), Countess of Anjou and Maine, married at Corbeil August 16, 1290 Charles of Valois, brother of king of France, and became ancestress of the Valois dynasty
  11. Blanche of Anjou (1280 – October 14, 1310, Barcelona), married at Villebertran November 1, 1295 James II of Aragon
  12. Eleanor of Anjou, (August 1289 – August 9, 1341, Monastery of St. Nicholas, Arene), married at Messina May 17, 1302 Frederick III of Sicily
  13. Mary (Maria) (1290 – c. 1346), married at Palma de Majorca September 20, 1304 Sancho I of Majorca, married 1326 Jaime de Ejerica (1298 – April 1335)
  14. Beatrice (1295 – c. 1321), married April 1305 Azzo VIII, Margrave d'Este (d. 1308), married 1309 Bertrand III of Baux, Count of Andria (d. 1351)
Preceded by
Margaret of Burgundy		 Queen Consort of Naples
1285 –5 May 1309		 Succeeded by
Sancha of Majorca

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