Helena of Serbia, Queen of Hungary
| Helena of Serbia, Queen consort of Hungary Jelena Vukanović-Árpád | |
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 Helena, as depicted in Chronicon Pictum | |
| Queen consort of Hungary | |
| Tenure | 1131–1141 |
| Born | after 1109 |
| Died | after 1146 |
| Spouse | Béla II |
| Issue | Elisabeth, Duchess of Poland Géza II Ladislaus II Stephen IV Sophia |
| House | House of Vukanović |
| Father | Uroš I of Rascia |
| Mother | Anna Diogene |
| Religion | Eastern Orthodoxy↓ Roman Catholicism |
Helena of Serbia (Serbian: Јелена Вукановић, Jelena Vukanović, Hungarian: Ilona királyné) (after 1109 – after 1146) was Queen consort of Hungary through her marriage with Béla II, who ruled 1131–1141.
Life
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
# 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)
See also
References
- Soltész, István: Árpád-házi királynék (Gabo, 1999)
- Kristó, Gyula - Makk, Ferenc: Az Árpád-ház uralkodói (IPC Könyvek, 1996)
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