Charles Martel of Anjou

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Charles Martel of Anjou
titular King of Hungary
Charles Martel of Anjou by Anton Boys
Born8 September 1271
Died12 August 1295 (aged 23)
Burial
Naples Cathedral
SpouseKlementia of Habsburg
IssueCharles I of Hungary
Beatrix of Hungary
Clementia of Hungary
HouseHouse of Anjou-Sicily
House of Anjou-Hungary (founder)
FatherCharles II of Naples
MotherMaria of Hungary

Charles Martel (Hungarian: Martell Károly; 8 September 1271 – 12 August 1295) of the Angevin dynasty was the eldest son of king Charles II of Naples and Maria of Hungary,[1] the daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary.

The 18-year-old Charles Martel was set up by Pope Nicholas IV and the ecclesiastical party as the titular King of Hungary (1290–1295) as successor of his maternal uncle,[1] the childless Ladislaus IV of Hungary against whom the Pope had already earlier declared a crusade.

He never managed to govern the Kingdom of Hungary, where an agnate of the Árpád dynasty, his cousin Andrew III of Hungary ruled at that time. Charles Martel was, however, successful in asserting his claim in the Kingdom of Croatia, then in personal union with Hungary.

Charles Martel died of the plague in Naples. His son, Charles (or Charles Robert), later succeeded in winning the throne of Hungary.[2]

Charles was apparently known personally to Dante: in the Divine Comedy, the poet speaks warmly of and to Charles's spirit when they meet in the Heaven of Venus (in Paradiso VIII).

Family

He married Klementia of Habsburg (d. 1295), daughter of Rudolph I, Holy Roman Emperor.[3]

They had three children:

Ancestry

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References

  1. ^ a b John V.A. Fine Jr., The Late Medieval Balkans, (The University of Michigan Press, 1994), 207.
  2. ^ John V.A. Fine Jr., The Late Medieval Balkans, 208-209.
  3. ^ Theresa Earenfight, Queenship in Medieval Europe, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 173.

Further reading

Charles Martel of Anjou
Born: 8 September 1271 Died: 12 August 1295
Titles in pretence
Preceded by
another crowned
 — TITULAR —
King of Hungary and Croatia
1290–1295 		Vacant
Title next held by
Charles I


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