Helena, Queen of Hungary
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| Helena, as depicted in Chronicon Pictum | |
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| Tenure | 1131–1141 |
| Spouse | Béla II |
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| Elisabeth, Duchess of Poland Géza II Ladislaus II Stephen IV Sophia |
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| House | Vukanović |
| Father | Uroš I of Rascia |
| Mother | Anna Diogene |
| Born | after 1109 |
| Died | after 1146 |
| Religion | Eastern Orthodoxy↓ Roman Catholicism |
Helena of Serbia (Serbian: Јелена/Jelena, Hungarian: Ilona királyné; b. after 1109 – after 1146) was Queen consort of Hungary through her marriage with Béla II, who ruled 1131–1141.
Life[edit]
Helena was the daughter of Duke Uroš I of Rascia and his wife, Anna Diogene-Vukanović. Around 1129, King Stephen II of Hungary arranged her marriage with his cousin Béla, who had been blinded on the order of the king's father, King Coloman of Hungary. The king granted estates near Tolna to the couple.
Following the childless king's death, her husband was crowned King of Hungary on 28 April 1131. Helena exerted material influence over her blind husband during his reign. It was she who persuaded her husband's partisans, with her two sons in her arms, to massacre, at an assembly in Arad, 68 aristocrats they suspected of having suggested King Coloman blind her husband.
When her husband died on 13 February 1141, their eldest son Géza II ascended the throne while still a child. Therefore, Helena and her brother Beloš Vukanović, whom she had invited to the court, governed the Kingdom of Hungary till September 1146 when he came of age.
Marriage and children[edit]
# c. 1129: King Béla II of Hungary (c. 1110 – 13 February 1141)
- Elisabeth (c. 1129 – before 1155), wife of duke Mieszko III of Poland
- King Géza II of Hungary (c. 1130 – 3 May 1162)
- King Ladislaus II of Hungary (1131 – 14 January 1163)
- King Stephen IV of Hungary (c. 1133 – 11 April 1165)
- Sophia (c. 1136 – ?), nun at Admont (Styria)
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References[edit]
- Soltész, István: Árpád-házi királynék (Gabo, 1999)
- Kristó, Gyula - Makk, Ferenc: Az Árpád-ház uralkodói (IPC Könyvek, 1996)
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| Preceded by Béla II |
Regent of Hungary with Ban Beloš Feb 1141–Sep 1146 |
Succeeded by Géza II |
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| Preceded by Adelaide of Riedenburg |
Queen of Hungary c. 1131–c. 1141 |
Succeeded by Euphrosyne of Kiev |
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- Hungarian queens consort
- Vukanović dynasty
- 12th-century female rulers
- 12th-century viceregal rulers
- 12th-century Hungarian people
- 12th-century Serbian people
- Medieval women
- Female regents
- Hungarian people of Serbian descent
- Burials at Székesfehérvár Cathedral
- Burials at St. Michael's Cathedral, Alba Iulia
- 1140s deaths
