Anna of HungaryIn Greek: Ἄννα; in Hungarian: Anna; in Croatian: Ana ( 1260–1281) was a

Princess Princess is a title used by a female member of a regnant monarch's family or by a female ruler of a principality. The male equivalent is a prince (from Latin '' princeps'', meaning principal citizen). Most often, the term has been used for ...

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

and

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

, and a Byzantine Empress by marriage to

Andronikos II Palaiologos Andronikos II Palaiologos (; 25 March 1259 – 13 February 1332), Latinization of names, Latinized as Andronicus II Palaeologus, reigned as Byzantine emperor from 1282 to 1328. His reign marked the beginning of the recently restored em ...

. She was the daughter of

Stephen V of Hungary Stephen V (, , ; before 18 October 1239 – 6 August 1272) was King of Hungary and King of Croatia, Croatia between 1270 and 1272, and Duke of Styria from 1258 to 1260. He was the oldest son of King Béla IV and Maria Laskarina. King Béla ...

and Elizabeth the Cuman. Anna was granddaughter of Béla IV of Hungary. On 8 November 1273, Anna married

According to George Pachymeres, the couple had two children: *Michael IX Palaiologos *Constantine Palaiologos (son of Andronikos II), Constantine Palaiologos, ''despotes''. Anna died before her husband became senior emperor in 1282. However every Palaiologos emperor to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 descended from her through her son Michael. Anna's sister Elizabeth of Hungary, Queen of Serbia, Elisabeth and Simonida (a daughter of Anna's husband by his second wife) both married King Stefan Milutin, Stefan Milutin of Serbia.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Anna of Hungary 1260s births 1281 deaths House of Árpád Palaiologos dynasty 13th-century Byzantine empresses Hungarian princesses People of Cuman descent 13th-century Hungarian women Daughters of kings Mothers of Byzantine emperors