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This is a list of the queens consorts of Hungary (), the consorts of the kings of Hungary. After the extinction of the Árpåd dynasty and later the Angevin dynasty, the title of King of Hungary has been held by a monarch outside of Hungary with a few exceptions. After 1526, the title of Queen of Hungary belonged to the wife of the Habsburg Emperors who were also King of Hungary. Queens of Hungary also held the titles after 1526: Holy Roman Empress (later Empress of Austria) and Queen consort of Bohemia. Since Leopold I, all kings of Hungary used the title of
Apostolic King His (Royal) Apostolic Majesty was a styled title used by the Kings of Hungary, in the sense of being latter-day apostles of Christianity. First creation The origin of this title dates from around 1000 A.D. when Pope Silvester II conferred it up ...
of Hungary the title given to Saint Stephen I by the Pope and their wives were styled as Apostolic Queens of Hungary. The title lasted just a little over nine centuries, from 1000 to 1918. The
Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946 and was a key part of the Habsburg monarchy from 1526-1918. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the Coro ...
also had two queens regnant (''királynő'') who were crowned as kings: Maria I and Maria II Theresa.


Grand Princesses of the Hungarians


Queens consort of Hungary


House of Árpád, 1000–1038


House of Orseolo, 1038/44–1041/46


House of Aba, 1041–1044


House of Árpád, 1046–1301


House of Přemyslid, 1301–1305


House of Wittelsbach, 1305–1308

Wenceslaus's successor Otto's first wife, Katharine of Habsburg, died 23 years before her husband became King of Hungary; and he married his second wife, Agnes of Glogau, two years after he lost the throne to Charles I.


Capetian House of Anjou, 1308–1395

Charles Martel of Anjou pressed his claim to the throne of Hungary and became titular King of Hungary in 1290; his wife, Klementia of Habsburg became titular queen consort of Hungary, but Charles Martel failed to govern Hungary and died in 1295. Charles Martel and Klementia were never the proper King and Queen. Charles Martel also died in his parents' lifetime.


House of Luxembourg, 1395–1437


House of Habsburg, 1437–1439


House of Jagiellon, 1440–1444

Ulászló I had no children and did not get married (contemporary opinions, quoted by Jan Długosz, suggested that he was homosexual). He was succeeded in Poland by his younger brother Casimir IV Jagiellon in 1447 after a three-year
interregnum An interregnum (plural interregna or interregnums) is a period of revolutionary breach of legal continuity, discontinuity or "gap" in a government, organization, or social order. Archetypally, it was the period of time between the reign of one m ...
. In Hungary, he was succeeded by his former rival, the child
Ladislaus the Posthumous Ladislaus V, more commonly known as Ladislaus the Posthumous (; ; ; ; 22 February 144023 November 1457), was Duke of Austria and King of Hungary, King of Croatia, Croatia and King of Bohemia, Bohemia. He was the posthumous birth, posthumous son ...
.


House of Habsburg, 1440/44–1457

Ladislaus the Posthumous Ladislaus V, more commonly known as Ladislaus the Posthumous (; ; ; ; 22 February 144023 November 1457), was Duke of Austria and King of Hungary, King of Croatia, Croatia and King of Bohemia, Bohemia. He was the posthumous birth, posthumous son ...
died suddenly in Prague on 23 November 1457 while preparing for his marriage to Magdalena of Valois, daughter of
Charles VII of France Charles VII (22 February 1403 – 22 July 1461), called the Victorious () or the Well-Served (), was King of France from 1422 to his death in 1461. His reign saw the end of the Hundred Years' War and a ''de facto'' end of the English claims to ...
. He and Magdalena, therefore, never married.


House of Hunyadi, 1458–1490


House of Jagiellon, 1490–1526


House of Szapolyai, 1526–1570

In dispute with the Habsburgs.


House of Habsburg, 1526–1780


House of Habsburg-Lorraine, 1780–1918


References


See also

* List of Hungarian monarchs * List of Transylvanian consorts {{clear Consorts Hungarian Hungarian