Matilda of Vianden, Lady of Požega
Matilda of Vianden, Lady of Požega (born before 1220 - died after 1255) was daughter of Henry I, Count of Vianden (d. 1252) and Margaret of Courtenay (d. 1270), princess of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. Matilda′s father Henry was a prominent noble from the House of Vianden, while her mother Margaret was daughter of Peter Courtenay (d. 1219), Latin Emperor of Constantinople. Margaret′s brothers, consequent Latin emperors Robert (d. 1228) and Baldwin II (d. 1273), were Matilda′s maternal uncles.[1][2]
| Matilda of Vianden Lady of Požega | |
|---|---|
| Lady of Syrmia Lady of Požega | |
| Born | before 1220 |
| Died | after 1255 |
| Spouses | John Angelos of Syrmia |
| Issue | Maria Angelina of Syrmia Helen, Queen of Serbia (possible) |
| House | House of Vianden (by birth) House of Angelos (by marriage) |
| Father | Henry I, Count of Vianden |
| Mother | Margaret of Courtenay |
Matilda was married (c. 1235) to John Angelos, Lord of Syrmia in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. John was son of Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelos (d. 1204) and Princess Margaret of Hungary. John died before 1253, and Matilda became the Lady of Požega in medieval Požega County (central region in modern Slavonia). Their daughter Maria was married (c. 1253-1255) to Anselm de Cayeux, who later (before 1269) became camerlengo of the Latin Emperor Baldwin II of Constantinople, Maria′s great-uncle.[3][4]
Various issues regarding the attribution of data related to two persons (father and son) who had the same name (Anselm de Cayeux),[5] have been discussed in several genealogical studies, since sources from the 1280s and 1290s suggest that Matilda′s daughter Maria had a sister Helen, Queen of Serbia (d. 1314).[6][7][8][9]
If those assumptions are correct, Matilda would be maternal grandmother of Serbian kings Stefan Dragutin and Stefan Milutin.
References
- McDaniel 1984, p. 43.
- McDaniel 1986, p. 196.
- Bourel 1895, p. 13.
- Berger 1897, p. 289, 351.
- Angold 2011, p. 54.
- McDaniel 1984.
- McDaniel 1986.
- Petrovitch 2015.
- Bácsatyai 2017.
Sources
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- Bácsatyai, Dániel (2017). "A 13. századi francia–magyar kapcsolatok néhány kérdése" (PDF). Századok. 151 (2): 237–278.
- Berger, Élie (1897). Les Registres d'Innocent IV. Vol. 3. Paris.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Bourel, Charles (1895). Registres d'Alexandre IV. Vol. 1. Paris.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Geanakoplos, Deno John (1953). "Greco-Latin Relations on the Eve of the Byzantine Restoration: The Battle of Pelagonia–1259". Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 7: 99–141. doi:10.2307/1291057. JSTOR 1291057.
- Mazzoleni, Jole, ed. (1967) [1952]. I registri della Cancelleria Angioina (PDF). Vol. 4 (2nd ed.). Napoli: Accademia Pontaniana.
- McDaniel, Gordon L. (1984). "On Hungarian-Serbian Relations in the Thirteenth Century: John Angelos and Queen Jelena" (PDF). Ungarn-Jahrbuch. 12 (1982-1983): München, 1984: 43–50.
- McDaniel, Gordon L. (1986). "The House of Anjou and Serbia". Louis the Great: King of Hungary and Poland. Boulder: East European Monographs. pp. 191–200. ISBN 9780880330879.
- Moravcsik, Gyula (1970). Byzantium and the Magyars. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.
- Petrovitch, Nicolas (2015). "La reine de Serbie Hélène d'Anjou et la maison de Chaources". Crusades. 14: 167–182. doi:10.1080/28327861.2015.12220366. ISBN 9781472468413. S2CID 257002925.