Klemencia (Anjou) de Hongrie (abt. 1293 - 1328)

Born about 1293 in Naples, Italy

Ancestors

Wife of Louis Capet — married 19 Aug 1315 in , Paris, Seine, France

Died 12 Oct 1328 at about age 35 in Paris, Île-de-France, France

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Biography

Clémence de Hongrie was the second wife of King Louix X of France. Daughter of Charles Martel of Anjou, the titular King of Hungary, and Clemence of Austria. Both parents died during her early childhood, and Mary of Hungary, Clementia's grandmother, raised her.

The ship that was supposed to bring her to France sank. She saved her live but lost all her jewels.

On August 19. 1315, five days after his first wife Marguerite de Bourgogne died in prison, Louis X married Clémence. On August 24. they where crowned in Reims.

Louis died in Vincennes in June 1316, leaving Clementia several months pregnant.

Her brother in law, Philippe de Poitiers, claimed the regency as King Philippe V.

In November, she gave birth to a son, that was named "Jean I (John) the Posthumous". The child died five days after his birth during his christening.

There where rumors that Philippe had kidnapped the real child and put a dead child in his place. Fourty years later, a man claimed to be John and was soon put in a prison where he died.

Clémence of Hungary died 12 October 1328 during a stay in Paris, at the age of 35, shortly after she had written her will in the Temple on 5 October 1328. ^[1]

Her body was buried in the Jacobin monastery of Paris, her heart in the monastery of Sainte-Marie de Nazareth. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Société de l'histoire de France: Nouveau recueil de comptes de l'argenterie des rois, 1874.
2. ↑ Wikipedia:DE:Klementine_von_Ungarn.

• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry , Vol. III, p. 34.

• The Peerage.

• Real Academia de la Historia.