Marie I of Anjou, Queen of Hungary, Louis I, Sigismund of Luxembourg, Elizabeth of Bosnia, Charles II of Durazzo, Hungarian throne, royal succession, medieval history
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Marie I of Anjou was a queen of Hungary and the eldest daughter of Louis I, king of Hungary and Poland. She became queen at a young age and faced numerous challenges to her throne.
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[...] Sigismund flees to Bohemia to prepare a counterattack and Marie I renounces the throne in December 1385. On December Charles II of Durazzo is crowned king of Hungary. But he is far from suspecting that on February he will be the victim of an assassination perpetrated by the supporters of the queen mother. Captured and wounded, he will be thrown into prison, where he will die assassinated on February 24, 1386. Thanks to her mother, Marie regains the throne of Hungary, but a new plot twist is about to unfold. [...]
[...] On March Sigismund of Luxembourg is elected and crowned king of Hungary. He is also a pretender to the crown of the Holy Roman German Empire. He will obtain the release of Marie. John Horvati will be captured by Sigismund in Bosnia and will be executed by Marie I. Sigismund of Luxembourg and Marie I will have no children together. It is he who will preserve the Hungarian crown at the death of the latter occurring on May 17, 1395. [...]
[...] Marie I of Anjou MARIE I OF ANJOU Marie I of Anjou was a queen of Hungary. She was the eldest daughter of Louis also known as the Great, king of Hungary and Poland, and Elizabeth of Bosnia. ENGAGEMENTS AND ARRIVAL TO POWER Marie became in 1372 the fiancée of Sigismund of Luxembourg. On 17 September 1382, Marie became the queen of Hungary. Despite the double crown held by her father, Marie will not be crowned queen of Poland, as the Polish nobility will claim Marie's sister, Hedwig, to occupy the throne, rendering independence to the Kingdom of Poland vis-à-vis the Kingdom of Hungary. [...]
