List of Hungarian royal consorts
This is a list of the queens consorts of Hungary (Hungarian: királyné), the consorts of the kings of Hungary. After the extinction of the Árpád dynasty and later the Angevin dynasty, the title of King of Hungary has been held by a monarch outside of Hungary with a few exceptions. After 1526, the title of Queen of Hungary belonged to the wife of the Habsburg Emperors who were also King of Hungary.
Queens of Hungary also held the titles after 1526: Holy Roman Empress (later Empress of Austria) and Queen consort of Bohemia. Since Leopold I, all kings of Hungary used the title of Apostolic King of Hungary – the title given to Saint Stephen I by the Pope – and their wives were styled as Apostolic Queens of Hungary.
The title lasted just a little over nine centuries, from 1000 to 1918.
The Kingdom of Hungary also had two queens regnant (királynő) who were crowned as kings: Maria I and Maria II Theresa.
Name | Father | Birth | Ethnicity | Religion | Marriage | Consort reign | Death | Spouse |
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Emese | Eunedubelianus | unknown | Hungarian | Paganism | Undated | unknown | Ügyek | |
Unnamed | Ménmarót | unknown | Hungarian | Paganism | Undated | ? – c. 947? | unknown | Zoltán |
Unnamed of the territories of the Cumans[1] | unknown | unknown | Cumans | Paganism | c. 945 | c. 955 – before 972 | unknown | Taksony |
Unnamed | unknown | unknown | Pecheneg or Bulgar | Paganism | unknown | |||
Sarolt | Gyula II of Transylvania | c. 950 | Hungarian | Eastern Orthodox | before 972 | before 972 – c. 995 | after 997 | Géza |
Gisela | Henry II of Bavaria (Ottonian) |
c. 985 | Bavarian | Roman Catholic | c. 995 | 995 – 25 December 1000/ 1 January 1001 | 7 May 1033/ 1065 | Vajk |
Queens consort of Hungary
[edit]House of Árpád, 1000–1038
[edit]Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became consort | Ceased to be consort | Death | Spouse |
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Giselle of Bavaria | Henry II, Duke of Bavaria (Ottonian) |
985 | 995 | 25 December 1000/ 1 January 1001 husband's coronation |
15 August 1038 husband's death |
7 May 1033/65 | Stephen I |
House of Orseolo, 1038/44–1041/46
[edit]Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became consort | Ceased to be consort | Death | Spouse |
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Tuta | unknown Some authors claim that her name was Tuta, who was mentioned as "Queen Tuta", the founder of the Suben Abbey, but no sources prove that she was either Queen of Hungary or wife of King Peter |
Peter | ||||||
Judith of Schweinfurt | Henry of Schweinfurt (Babenberg) |
most likely never occurred (before 1003 – 2 August 1058) |
House of Aba, 1041–1044
[edit]Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became consort | Ceased to be consort | Death | Spouse |
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unnamed | Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians (Árpád) |
unknown | Samuel |
House of Árpád, 1046–1301
[edit]Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became consort | Ceased to be consort | Death | Spouse |
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Anastasia of Kiev | Yaroslav I the Wise (Rurik) |
1023 | 1039 | 1046 husband's accession |
before 6 December 1060 husband's death |
1074/96 | Andrew I | |
Richeza of Poland | Mieszko II Lambert (Piast) |
22 September 1013 | 1039–43 | 1060 husband's accession |
11 September 1063 husband's death |
21 May 1075 | Béla I | |
Judith of Swabia | Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (Ottonian) |
9 April 1054 | September 1063 | August 1074 husband's despostion |
14 March 1093/96 | Solomon | ||
Synadena | Theodulos Synadenos (Synadenos) |
– | 1075 | 25 April 1077 husband's death |
after 1079 | Géza I | ||
Adelaide of Rheinfelden | Rudolf of Rheinfelden (Rheinfelden) |
1067/70 | 1077 or after | 25 April 1077 husband's accession |
29 July 1095 husband's death |
3 May 1090 | Ladislaus I | |
Felicia of Sicily | Roger I, Count of Sicily (Hauteville) |
1078 | 1097 | 1102 | Coloman | |||
Euphemia of Kiev | Vladimir II of Kiev (Rurik) |
– | 1104/12 | 1113 repudiated |
4 April 1139 | |||
Unnamed | Robert I, Prince of Capua (Drengot) |
– | 1120 | before 1121 | Stephen II | |||
Helena of Raška | Uroš I, Grand Župan of Raška (Vojislavljević) |
after 1109 | 28 August 1127 | 1 March 1131 husband's accession |
13 February 1141 husband's death |
after 1146 | Béla II | |
Euphrosyne of Kiev | Mstislav I of Kiev (Rurik) |
1130 | 1146 | 31 May 1162 husband's death |
1186–93 | Géza II | ||
Yaroslavna of Halych | Yaroslav Osmomysl (Rurik) |
– | 1167 | 1168 repudiated |
– | Stephen III | ||
Agnes of Austria | Henry II, Duke of Austria (Babenberg) |
1154 | 1168 | 4 March 1172 husband's death |
13 January 1182 | |||
Maria Komnene | Manuel I Komnenos (Komnenoi) |
1144 | 1157 | 14 January 1163 husband's accession |
11 April 1165 husband's death |
1190 | Stephen IV | |
Agnes of Antioch | Raynald of Châtillon, Prince of Antioch | 1154 | 1170 | 4 March 1172 husband's accession |
1184 | Béla III | ||
Margaret of France | Louis VII of France (Capet) |
November 1157 | 1185/86 | 23 April 1196 husband's death |
August/September 1197 | |||
Constance of Aragon | Alfonso II of Aragon (Barcelona) |
1179 | 1198 | 30 September/30 November 1204 husband's death |
23 June 1222 | Emeric | ||
Gertrude of Merania | Berthold IV, Duke of Merania (Andechs) |
1185 | before 1203 | 7 May 1205 husband's accession |
28 September 1213 | Andrew II | ||
Yolanda de Courtenay | Peter II of Courtenay (Courtenay) |
1200 | February 1215 | 1233 | ||||
Beatrice d'Este | Aldobrandino I of Este (Este) |
1215 | 14 May 1234 | 21 September 1235 husband's death |
1245, before 8 May | |||
Maria Laskarina | Theodore I Laskaris (Laskarid) |
1206 | 1218 | 21 September 1235 husband's accession |
3 May 1270 husband's death |
16 July or 24 June 1270 | Béla IV | |
Elizabeth the Cuman | Köten | 1240 | around 1253 | 3 May 1270 husband's accession |
6 August 1272 husband's death |
after 1290 | Stephen V | |
Elizabeth of Sicily | Charles I of Naples (Anjou) |
1261 | 1270 | 5 September 1272 | 10 July 1290 husband's death |
c. 1300 | Ladislaus IV | |
Fenenna of Kuyavia | Ziemomysł of Kujavia (Piast) |
1261 | September–November 1290 | 1295 | Andrew III | |||
Agnes of Austria | Albert I of Germany (Habsburg) |
18 May 1281 | 13 February 1296 | 14 January 1301 husband's death |
10 June 1364 |
House of Přemyslid, 1301–1305
[edit]Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became consort | Ceased to be consort | Death | Spouse |
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Viola of Teschen | Mieszko I, Duke of Teschen (Piast) |
1290 | 5 October 1305 | 9 October 1305 husband renounces throne |
21 September 1317 | Wenceslaus |
House of Wittelsbach, 1305–1308
[edit]Wenceslaus's successor Otto's first wife, Katharine of Habsburg, died 23 years before her husband became King of Hungary; and he married his second wife, Agnes of Glogau, two years after he lost the throne to Charles I.
Capetian House of Anjou, 1308–1395
[edit]Charles Martel of Anjou pressed his claim to the throne of Hungary and became titular King of Hungary in 1290; his wife, Klementia of Habsburg became titular queen consort of Hungary, but Charles Martel failed to govern Hungary and died in 1295. Charles Martel and Klementia were never the proper King and Queen. Charles Martel also died in his parents' lifetime.
Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became consort | Ceased to be consort | Death | Spouse |
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Maria of Bytom | Casimir of Bytom (Piast) |
1280–90 | 1306 | 15 December 1317 | Charles I | |||
Beatrice of Luxembourg | Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (Luxembourg) |
1305 | 24 June/September 1318 | 11 November 1319 | ||||
Elisabeth of Poland | Władysław I the Elbow-high (Piast) |
1305 | 6 July 1320 | 16 July 1342 husband's death |
29 December 1380 | |||
Margaret of Bohemia | Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (Luxembourg) |
24 May 1335 | 3 August 1342 | 16 July 1342 husband's accession |
1349, before October | Louis I | ||
Elizabeth of Bosnia | Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia (House of Kotromanić) |
1340 | 20 June 1353 | 10 September 1382 husband's death |
before 16 January 1387 | |||
Margaret of Durazzo | Charles, Duke of Durazzo (Anjou-Durazzo) |
28 July 1347 | 24 January 1369/70 | 31 December 1385 husband's coronation |
24 February 1386 husband's death |
6 August 1412 | Charles II |
House of Luxembourg, 1395–1437
[edit]Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became consort | Ceased to be consort | Death | Spouse |
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Barbara of Celje | Herman II, Count of Celje (Celje) |
1390/95 | 1406 | 9 December 1437 husband's death |
11 July 1451 | Sigismund |
House of Habsburg, 1437–1439
[edit]Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became consort | Ceased to be consort | Death | Spouse |
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Elizabeth of Luxembourg | Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (Luxembourg) |
7 October 1409 | 28 September 1421 | 9 December 1437 husband's accession |
27 October 1439 husband's death |
19 December 1442 | Albert I |
House of Jagiellon, 1440–1444
[edit]Ulászló I had no children and did not get married (contemporary opinions, quoted by Jan Długosz, suggested that he was homosexual). He was succeeded in Poland by his younger brother Casimir IV Jagiellon in 1447 after a three-year interregnum. In Hungary, he was succeeded by his former rival, the child Ladislaus the Posthumous.
House of Habsburg, 1440/44–1457
[edit]Ladislaus the Posthumous died suddenly in Prague on 23 November 1457 while preparing for his marriage to Magdalena of Valois, daughter of Charles VII of France. He and Magdalena, therefore, never married.
House of Hunyadi, 1458–1490
[edit]Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became consort | Ceased to be consort | Death | Spouse |
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Catherine of Poděbrady | George of Bohemia (Podiebrad) |
11 November 1449 | 1 May 1461 | 8 March 1464 | Matthias I Corvinus | |||
Beatrice of Naples | Ferdinand I of Naples (Trastámara) |
16 November 1457 | 15 December 1476 | 6 April 1490 husband's death |
23 September 1508 |
House of Jagiellon, 1490–1526
[edit]Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became consort | Ceased to be consort | Death | Spouse |
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Barbara of Brandenburg | Albert III, Elector of Brandenburg (Hohenzollern) |
30 May 1464 | 20 August 1476 | 18 September 1490 husband's accession |
1491 divorce |
4 September 1515 | Vladislaus II | |
Beatrice of Naples | Ferdinand I of Naples (Trastámara) |
16 November 1457 | 4 October 1490 | 7 April 1500 marriage annulled by Pope Alexander VI |
23 September 1508 | |||
Anna of Foix-Candale | Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale (Foix) |
1484 | 29 September 1502 | 26 July 1506 | ||||
Maria of Austria | Philip I of Castile (Habsburg) |
18 September 1505 | 13 January 1522 | 29 August 1526 husband's death |
18 October 1558 | Louis II |
House of Szapolyai, 1526–1570
[edit]In dispute with the Habsburgs.
Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became consort | Ceased to be consort | Death | Spouse |
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Isabella Jagiellon | Sigismund I of Poland (Jagiellon) |
18 January 1519 | 23 February 1539 | 22 July 1540 husband's death |
15 September 1559 | John I |
House of Habsburg, 1526–1780
[edit]Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became consort | Ceased to be consort | Death | Spouse |
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Anna of Bohemia and Hungary | Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (Jagiellon) |
23 July 1503 | 25 May 1521 | 29 August 1526 husband's accession |
27 January 1547 | Ferdinand I | ||
Maria of Spain | Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (Habsburg) |
21 June 1528 | 13 September 1548 | September 1563 husband's accession |
12 October 1576 husband's death |
26 February 1603 | Maximilian | |
Anna of Austria | Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria (Habsburg) |
4 October 1585 | 4 December 1611 | 14 December 1618 | Matthias II | |||
Eleonore of Mantua | Vincenzo I of Gonzaga (Gonzaga) |
23 September 1598 | 4 February 1622 | 15 February 1637 husband's death |
27 June 1655 | Ferdinand II | ||
Maria Anna of Spain | Philip III of Spain (Habsburg) |
18 August 1606 | 20 February 1631 | 13 May 1646 | Ferdinand III | |||
Maria Leopoldine of Austria | Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (Habsburg) |
6 April 1632 | 2 July 1648 | 7 August 1649 | ||||
Eleanor of Mantua | Charles II Gonzaga (Gonzaga) |
18 November 1630 | 30 April 1651 | 2 April 1657 husband's death |
6 December 1686 | |||
Margaret Theresa of Spain | Philip IV of Spain (Habsburg) |
12 July 1651 | 12 December 1666 | 12 March 1673 | Leopold I | |||
Claudia Felicitas of Austria | Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria (Habsburg) |
30 May 1653 | 15 October 1673 | 8 April 1676 | ||||
Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg | Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (Wittelsbach) |
6 January 1655 | 14 December 1676 | 5 May 1705 husband's death |
19 January 1720 | |||
Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick | John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Welf) |
21 April 1673 | 24 February 1699 | 17 April 1711 husband's death |
10 April 1742 | Joseph I | ||
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Welf) |
28 August (28 September?) 1691 | 1 August 1708 | 17 April 1711 husband's accession |
20 October 1740 husband's death |
21 December 1750 | Charles III |
House of Habsburg-Lorraine, 1780–1918
[edit]Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became consort | Ceased to be consort | Death | Spouse |
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Maria Luisa of Spain | Charles III of Spain (Bourbon) |
24 November 1745 | 16 February 1764 | 20 February 1790 husband's accession |
1 March 1792 husband's death |
15 May 1792 | Leopold II | |
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily | Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (Bourbon-Two Sicilies) |
6 June 1772 | 15 August 1790 | 1 March 1792 husband's accession |
13 April 1807 | Francis I | ||
Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este | Ferdinand I, Archduke of Austria-Este (Habsburg-Este) |
14 December 1787 | 6 January 1808 | 7 April 1816 | ||||
Caroline Augusta of Bavaria | Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (Wittelsbach) |
8 February 1792 | 29 October 1816 | 28 September 1830 stepson became king |
9 February 1873 | |||
Maria Anna of Savoy | Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (Savoy) |
19 September 1803 | 12 February 1831 | 2 December 1848 husband's abdication |
4 May 1884 | Ferdinand V | ||
Elisabeth in Bavaria | Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (Wittelsbach) |
24 December 1837 | 24 April 1854 | 10 September 1898 | Francis Joseph I | |||
Zita of Bourbon-Parma | Robert I, Duke of Parma (Bourbon-Parma) |
9 May 1892 | 13 June 1911 | 21 November 1916 husband's accession |
11 November 1918 husband's deposition |
14 March 1989 | Charles IV |
References
[edit]- ^ The Gesta Hungarorum mentions that he married a woman "of the territories of the Cumans", but the Cumans had not crossed the Volga River before the 11th century.