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Constance of Hungary

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Tenure
  
1199–1230

Father
  
Bela III of Hungary


House
  
House of Arpad

Burial
  
Cloister Porta coeli

Name
  
Constance Hungary

Constance of Hungary

Issue
  
Wenceslaus I of BohemiaAnna of BohemiaSaint Agnes of Bohemia

Died
  
December 6, 1240, Tisnov, Czech Republic

Spouse
  
Children
  
Agnes of Bohemia, Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, Anne of Bohemia, Duchess of Silesia, Vladislaus II of Moravia

Parents
  
Bela III of Hungary, Agnes of Antioch

Siblings
  
Andrew II of Hungary, Emeric, King of Hungary, Margaret of Hungary

Similar People
  
Ottokar I of Bohemia, Agnes of Bohemia, Ottokar II of Bohemia, Bela III of Hungary, Vladislaus II - Duke of Bohemia

Constance of Hungary (c. 1180 – 6 December 1240) was the second Queen consort of Ottokar I of Bohemia.

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Family

Constance was a daughter of Béla III of Hungary and his first wife Agnes of Antioch. Her older siblings included Emeric, King of Hungary, Margaret of Hungary and Andrew II of Hungary.

Marriage and children

In 1199, Ottokar I divorced his first wife, Adelheid of Meissen, on grounds of consanguinity. He married Constance later in the same year. Together with Ottokar, she had nine children.

Constance is regularly noted as a co-donator with her husband in various documents of his reign. Her petitions to her husband for various donations are also recorded. She is considered to have sold the city Boleráz to her nephew Béla IV of Hungary. In 1247, Béla conferred said city to the nuns of Trnava. An epistle by which Constance supposedly grants freedom to the cities of Břeclav and Olomouc is considered a false document. The same epistle grants lands in Ostrovany to the monastery of St. Stephen of Hradište. Another epistle has Constance settling "honorable Teutonic men" (viros honestos Theutunicos) in the city of Hodonín and is also considered a forgery. In 1230, Ottokar I died and their son Wenceslaus succeeded him. Constance survived her husband by a decade.

In 1231, Pope Gregory IX set Constance and her dowry possessions under the protection of the Holy See. His letter to Constance clarifies said possessions to include the provinces of Břeclav (Brecyzlaviensem), Pribyslavice (Pribizlavensem), Dolni Kunice (Conowizensem), Godens (Godeninensem), Bzenec (Bisenzensem) and Budějovice (Budegewizensem). In 1232, Constance founded Cloister Porta Coeli near Tišnov and retired to it as a nun. She died within the Cloister.

Issue

  • Vratislav of Bohemia (c. 1200 – before 1209).
  • Judith of Bohemia (c. 1202 – 2 June 1230). Married Bernhard von Spanheim, Duke of Carinthia
  • Anna of Bohemia (c. 1204 – 23 June 1265). Married Henry II the Pious, Duke of Wrocław
  • Agnes of Bohemia. Considered to have died young.
  • Wenceslaus I of Bohemia (c. 1205 – 23 September 1253).
  • Vladislaus, Margrave of Moravia (1207 – 10 February 1228).
  • Přemysl, Margrave of Moravia (1209 – 16 October 1239). Married Margaret of Andechs-Merano. His wife was a daughter of Otto I, Duke of Merania and Beatrice II, Countess of Burgundy.
  • Božena (Wilhelmina) of Bohemia (1210 – 24 October 1281).
  • Agnes of Bohemia (20 January 1211 – 6 March 1282). Mother Superior of the Franciscan Poor Clares nuns of Prague. In 1989, Agnes was canonized as a saint by Pope John Paul II.
  • References

    Constance of Hungary Wikipedia


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