Princess of Hungary Maria (Mary) Arpad

Maria married King of Naples Charles II "The Lame" d'Anjou about 1270. Charles (son of Count of Anjou Charles I d'Anjou and Beatrice Berenguer) was born in 1254; died on 5 May 1309 in Naples, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Princess of Sicily Margaret d'Anjou was born in 1273 in Sicily; died on 31 Dec 1299; was buried in Jacobins, Paris, Seine, France.

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Died of a broken heart after the kindapping of his son Ladislas (Laszlo) by a trusted official.

Stephen married Princess of Cumania Elizabeth (Erzsebet). Elizabeth (daughter of Prince of the Cumens Kuthen and Princess of Galicia Mstislavna) was born in 1240; died in 1292. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

IV married Princess of Byzantium Maria Laskarina. Maria was born in 1206 in Nicaea, Bursa, Turkey; died in 1270. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Kuthen married Princess of Galicia Mstislavna. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Hungarian Endre, or Andras. King of Hungary (1205-35) whose reign was marked by controversy with barons and the great feudatories and by the issuance of the Golden Bull of 1222 (q.v.), which has been called the Hungarian Magna Carta.

The son of Bela III, Andrew succeeded Laszlo III, his elder brother's son, on the throne in 1205. Powerful landed interests forced Andrew to spend royal funds so recklessly that the crown was soon impoverished and dependent on the feudatories, who soon reduced Hungary to a state of near anarchy. Objecting to the prodigality of the German followers of Andrew's first wife, Gertrude of Meran, rebellious nobles murdered her in 1213. Four years later, with an army of 15,000 men, Andrew set off on an ill-fated Crusade to the Holy Land. After his return the barons forced him to agree to the Golden Bull, which became an important source of the Hungarian constitution. It limited royal rights and prerogatives, confirmed basic rights of small holders and nobles, guaranteed justice for all, and promised to improve the coinage. Under it, nobles had the right to resist by force any royal decree.

During Andrew's reign the Teutonic Knights, who had occupied parts of Transylvania for 14 years, came into conflict with both royal and ecclesiastical authority, and the order was expelled from Hungary in 1225. Andrew's daughter by Gertrude was canonized as St. Elizabeth of Hungary.

Andrew married Gertrude von Meran in 1203. Gertrude was born about 1185 in Andechs, Starnberg, Bayern, Germany; died on 28 Sep 1213. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]