Clemence of Austria (in German: Klementia) (1262 – February 1293, or 1295) was a daughter of King Rudolph I of Germany and Gertrude of Hohenberg. She was a member of the House of Habsburg.

Clemence of Austria
Portrait by Anton Boys
Born1262
Vienna, Austria
DiedFebruary, 1293 or 1295 (aged 30–33)
Burial
SpouseCharles Martel of Anjou
IssueCharles I of Hungary
Beatrice, Dauphine of Viennois
Clemence, Queen of France
HouseHabsburg
FatherRudolf I of Germany
MotherGertrude of Hohenberg

Marriage edit

On 8 January 1281, Clemence married Charles Martel of Anjou.[1]

Clemence and Charles Martel had three children:

It is believed that Clemence died in 1293, in relation to the birth of her youngest daughter and namesake, Clemence. Others[2] argue that she died in 1295, months after Charles Martel. She is buried in Naples.

Queen of Hungary? edit

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 Clemence's son, Charles would ultimately succeed where he had failed in winning the throne of Hungary.[citation needed]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Theresa Earenfight, Queenship in Medieval Europe, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 173.
  2. ^ Constantin Wurzbach, Biographisches Lexikon des Kaisertums Österreich, Vienna, 1860, Vol. VI, p. 159 (online version)