Anna of Hungary | |
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Born | 1226 |
Spouse | Rostislav Mikhailovich |
Issue |
Béla of Macsó Michael of Bosnia Kunigunda, Queen Consort of Bohemia Gryfina, High Duchess consort of Poland |
House | Árpád dynasty |
Father | Béla IV of Hungary |
Mother | Maria Laskarina |
Anna of Hungary (born 1226) was a daughter of Béla IV of Hungary and his wife, Maria Laskarina. Anna was a member of the House of Árpád. Anna gained many titles from her marriage to Rostislav Mikhailovich.
Anna was the third of ten children borne to her parents. She was sister to three saints: Kinga, Margaret and Blessed Jolenta. Other siblings included Stephen V of Hungary and Elizabeth of Hungary, Duchess of Bavaria.
Her paternal grandparents were Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania, sister to Agnes of Merania.
Her maternal grandparents were Theodore I Laskaris and Anna Komnena Angelina.
In 1243, Anna married Rostislav Mikhailovich. Rostislav could not strengthen his rule in Halych, so he went to the court of King Béla IV of Hungary, and there he married Anna. Anna had always been her father's favourite daughter. He allowed her to exercise more and more influence over him. In his last will, Béla entrusted his daughter and his followers to her son-in-law, Ottokar II of Bohemia, because he did not trust his eldest son Stephen. Michael inherited their father’s part of Bosnia. King Béla IV, having made these assignments to his grandsons, decided also to make some further changes in his peripheral territories, and assigned Slavonia, Dalmatia, and Croatia, which until then had all been under his heir, the future Stephen V of Hungary, to a younger son named Béla.