Charles Martel of Anjou
| Charles Martel of Anjou | |
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| titular King of Hungary | |
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| Spouse | Klementia of Habsburg |
| Issue | Charles I of Hungary Beatrix of Hungary Clementia of Hungary |
| House | House of Anjou-Sicily House of Anjou-Hungary (founder) |
| Father | Charles II of Naples |
| Mother | Maria of Hungary |
Charles Martel (8 September 1271 – 12 August 1295) of the Angevin dynasty, also known as Charles I Martel, (Template:Lang-fr, Template:Lang-it) was the eldest son of king Charles II of Naples and Maria of Hungary, the daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary.
The 18-year-old 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. His son, Charles (or Charles Robert), would ultimately succeed where he had failed in winning the throne of Hungary.
Charles was apparently known personally to Dante: in the Divine Comedy the poet speaks warmly of and to Charles's spirit when they meet in the Heaven of Venus.
Family
He married Klementia of Habsburg (d.1295), daughter of Rudolph I, Holy Roman Emperor.
They had three children:
- Charles I of Hungary (1288–1342), King of Hungary
- Beatrix (1290–1354, Grenoble), married on 25 May 1296 Jean II de La Tour du Pin, Dauphin du Viennois
- Clementia (February 1293 – 12 October 1328, Paris), married in Paris on 13 August 1315 Louis X of France
Ancestry
| 16. Philip II of France | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8. Louis VIII of France | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17. Isabelle of Hainaut | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4. Charles I of Naples | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18. Alfonso VIII of Castile | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9. Blanche of Castile | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19. Leonora of England | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2. Charles II of Naples | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20. Alfonso II, Count of Provence | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10. Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21. Gersenda II of Sabran | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5. Beatrice of Provence | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22. Thomas I of Savoy | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11. Beatrice of Savoy | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23. Marguerite of Geneva | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1. Charles Martel of Anjou | |||||||||||||||||||
| 24. Andrew II of Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12. Béla IV of Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||
| 25. Gertrude of Merania | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6. Stephen V of Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||
| 26. Theodore I Laskaris | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13. Maria Laskarina | |||||||||||||||||||
| 27. Anna Angelina | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3. Maria of Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||
| 28. Suthoi, Khan of Cumania | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14. Kuthen, Khan of Cumania | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7. Elizabeth the Cuman | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15. Mstislawna of Galicia | |||||||||||||||||||
References
Further reading
- Template:Fr icon Coat of arms of the House of Anjou-Sicily on the French Wikipedia
- Template:Fr icon House of Anjou-Sicily on the French Wikipedia
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