Elisabeth of Sicily

Elisabeth of Sicily (also Isabella of Anjou ; * around 1261 ; † November 3, 1303 in Naples ) was Queen of Hungary .

Life

Elisabeth of Sicily was born as the youngest daughter of King Charles I of Sicily from the house of Anjou and his first wife Beatrix of Provence . In 1270, when she was about 9 years old, she was married to the Hungarian Prince Ladislaus IV , who was one year younger , as reported in the Saba Malaspina Chronicle . Ladislaus was crowned king in September 1272 at the age of only 10.

The couple had no children during their 20-year marriage. Instead, Ladislaus preferred the pagan Cumans who only settled in Hungary around 1240 (his mother Elisabeth was a Cuman) and took a Cuman mistress. In order to be able to live with this undisturbed, he had his wife Elisabeth (Isabella ) imprisoned on Rabbit Island (now Margaret Island in Budapest ) in 1286 . Between September 1286 and August 1287 she lived in the local monastery, in which her sister-in-law (the blessed) Elisabeth of Hungary was abbess. Later the king had to give up the relationship with his concubine and resume his marriage to Elizabeth.

Ladislaus was murdered in July 1290 and his distant relative Andreas III. followed him to the Hungarian throne. In 1294 Queen Fenena confirmed Elisabeth's privilege to collect church donations in Veszprém County . In 1301 Elisabeth returned to Naples and became a Dominican nun in the Monastero di San Pietro . She was buried in this monastery after her death in 1303.

literature

• Brigitte Sokop: Family tables of European rulers . 3rd edition Vienna 1993.

Web links

• Charles Cawley: Isabella d'Anjou , on Medieval Lands

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Charles Cawley: Isabella d'Anjou , on Medieval Lands.
2. ↑ The monastery on today's Margaret Island was founded by King Bela IV to accommodate his "consecrated" daughter Margarete as a nun.

predecessor	Office	Successor
Elizabeth of Cumania	Queen of Hungary 1272–1290	Fenena of Kuyavia