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Klementia of Habsburg

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Klementia of Habsburg (1262 - February 1293) was a daughter of Rudolf I of Habsburg and Gertrude of Hohenberg. She was a member of the House of Habsburg.

Biography

On the 8 January 1281 Klementia married Charles Martel of Anjou. She could have became Queen of Hungary but her husband died before his father did in 1295.

Klementia and Charles Martel had three children:

Charles I of Hungary, became King of Hungary in 1308, married three times, his second wife was Beatrix of Luxembourg and his third wife was Elisabeth of Poland. All of his surviving children were with Elisabeth.

Beatrice of Hungary (1290-1343), the wife of John II of Viennois

Klemetina of Hungary, the second wife of Louis X of France and mother of John I of France, the baby king. [1]

[edit]A chance to be Queen of Hungary

Charles Martel was set up by Pope Nicholas IV and the ecclesiastical party as the titular King of Hungary (1290–1295) as successor of his maternal uncle, the childless Ladislaus IV of Hungary against whom the Pope had already earlier declared a crusade.

He never managed to govern the Kingdom of Hungary, where an agnate of the Árpád dynasty, his cousin Andrew III of Hungary actually ruled that period. Charles Martel was, however, successful in asserting his claims in parts of Croatia, a kingdom then in personal union with Hungary.

Charles Martel died young in Naples, during the lifetime of his parents. Charles Martel and Klementia's son, Charles would ultimately succeed where he had failed in winning the throne of Hungary.

[edit]Family

Klementia was the eighth of nine children, her younger sister was Judith of Habsburg. Judith who married Wenceslaus II of Bohemia was the mother of ten children, among them were Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, Anna I of Bohemia, duchess of Carinthia and Elisabeth I of Bohemia, duchess of Luxembourg. Klementia's daughter Clemence was the mother of John I of France, the baby king. John I died when he was only five days old so was succeded by his paternal uncle Philip.

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