Anjou Katalin

Catherine of Hungary

Catherine and her sisters kneeling in front of their mother, who is presenting the casket to St. Simeon House House of Anjou-Hungary Father Louis I of Hungary Mother Elizabeth of Bosnia Born 1370 Died 1378

Catherine of Hungary (1370–1378) was the eldest child of King Louis I of Hungary and his second queen, Elizabeth of Bosnia.

Catherine's birth was long expected, as her parents' marriage was childless for the first seventeen years. Her birth also secured the succession to the Holy Crown of Hungary, to which Catherine was heiress presumptive all her life.[1]

Being the eldest daughter of the King of Hungary and Poland who had no sons, Catherine was a much wanted bride. When she was only four years old, she was betrothed to Louis, a younger son of King Charles V of France and future Duke of Orléans. Their marriage was supposed to establish a connection between the two French royal houses. Her father made a set of concessions to the Polish noblemen in exchange for recognizing Catherine (or one of her sisters) as sovereign of Poland after his death. This agreement is known as the Privilege of Koszyce.[2][3]

Thus, Catherine was expected to reign either over Hungary or over Poland. Her father also planned to leave her his claim to the Crown of Naples and the County of Provence, which were then held by his ailing and childless cousin Joanna I.[1]

However, Catherine died aged eight, predeceasing both her father and her cousin Joanna. The agreement between her father and the noblemen became null and void.[2] Catherine's youngest sister Hedwig eventually became monarch of Poland. Her other sister Mary, who was betrothed to her fiancé, became heiress presumptive and eventually monarch of Hungary.

References: ^ a b Engel, Pal; Ayton, Andrew; Pálosfalvi, Tamás (1999). The realm of St. Stephen: a history of medieval Hungary, 895-1526 Volume 19 of International Library of Historical Studies. Penn State Press. ISBN 0271017589. ^ a b Nowakowska, Natalia (2007). Church, state and dynasty in Renaissance Poland: the career of Cardinal Fryderyk Jagiellon (1468-1503). Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. ISBN 0754656446. ^ The Cambridge History of Poland. CUP Archive. ISBN 1001288025. Retrieved from

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