Anne de Foix-Candale

Anne de Foix-Candale (* 1484 ; † July 26, 1506 in Ofen ) was a French countess from the Grailly family and, by marriage, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary .

Life

Anne de Foix-Candale, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary, Master of the Leitmeritz Altar, mural painting in the St. Wenceslas Chapel, St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague, around 1509

Anne was a daughter of Count Gaston II. De Foix-Candale and his first wife Catharine, who in turn was a daughter of Count Gaston IV. Of Foix and Queen Eleanor of Navarre . On her father's side she came from a branch of the Grailly family, which came into the possession of the County of Foix at the beginning of the 15th century . Anne's mother came from the main line of Graillys that this county owned and was therefore a cousin of Anne's father.

After the death of her father in 1500, Anne was accepted at the court of King Louis XII. of France . She was a cousin of Queen Anne de Bretagne , who was Anne's godmother.

At the request of King Ludwig XII. Anne was married on September 29, 1502 in Stuhlweissenburg to King Wladislaw II of Bohemia and Hungary , son of the Polish King Casimir IV. Andrew and the Archduchess and Hungarian Princess Elizabeth of Habsburg . At the same time she was crowned Queen of Hungary there. Louis XII. gave her a dowry of 40,000 ducats with her in the marriage. With this marriage he intended to preserve the continued existence of the Jagiellonian dynasty in Bohemia and Hungary in order to prevent the inheritance of the House of Habsburg , France's rival for supremacy in Europe, in these two kingdoms.

The marriage had two children

Anna (* 1503; † 1547), heiress of Bohemia and Hungary

⚭ 1515 Ferdinand I (* 1503; † 1564), Archduke of Austria and German-Roman King

Ludwig II. (* 1506; † 1526), last king of the Jagiellonian family

⚭ 1515 Archduchess Maria of Austria (* 1505; † 1558)

Queen Anna died of the consequences of the birth of her son and was buried first in Ofen , then with her husband in Stuhlweissenburg in 1516 . Due to an agreement between her husband and Emperor Maximilian I of March 20, 1506, which culminated in the double wedding in Vienna on July 22, 1515 , the intentions of the French king were to be thwarted. Because with the heirless death of their son in the battle of Mohács (1526) , the Habsburgs were to come into possession of the crowns of Hungary and Bohemia via Anne's daughter of the same name , where they remained until 1918.

literature

Raoul Anthony: Identification et Etude des Ossements des Rois de Navarre inhumés dans la Cathédrale de Lescar , Paris, Masson, 1931
Lajos Kropf: Anna királyné, II. Ulászló neje (Queen Anne de Foix-Candale, wife of Wladislaw II). In: Századok (Journal Century) 29 . Pp. 689-709. 1895.

Individual evidence

↑ See Kropf (1895)
↑ Queen Anna was never in Bohemia , her children were not born in Prague .
↑ See Kropf (1895)

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predecessor	Office	successor
Beatrix of Aragon	Queen of Bohemia 1502–1506	Maria of Austria
Beatrix of Aragon	Queen of Hungary 1502–1506	Maria of Austria

personal data
SURNAME	Foix-Candale, Anne de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Queen Anne of Bohemia and Hungary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French princess from the Grailly family and Queen of Bohemia and Hungary by marriage
DATE OF BIRTH	1484
DATE OF DEATH	July 26, 1506
Place of death	Prague

[1] See Kropf (1895)

[2] Queen Anna was never in Bohemia , her children were not born in Prague .

[3] See Kropf (1895)