Mary Of Hungary

Croatia, Rascia, etc., 1382 – 1395 , was the third of four daughters, but the eldest surviving daughter of Louis I ''the Great'' Of Hungary . Her father had arranged that Sigismund Of Luxemburg would marry her,
while Wilhelm Habsburg would mary her younger sister, who became Queen Jadwiga Of Poland .)

Mary became Queen of Hungary as a child after her father's death in 1382 (her elder sister Catherine having died four years earlier, and the eldest Elizabeta years earlier). The country was ruled by her mother, the Dowager Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeta Kotromanic of Bosnia, and by Palatine Miklós Garai, Nikola I Gorjanski Stariji. Many noblemen of Hungary were opposed to them and they helped Charles of Durazzo, King Of Naples to become King of Hungary in 1385 . Queen Elizabeth and Garai had Charles II assassinated in 1386 . The supporters of Charles II captured Elizabeth and Mary. On the first anniversary of the death of Charles II, Elizabeth was strangled before Mary's eyes.
Charles's heir was his underage son Ladislas Of Naples (d. 1414 ) who attempted all his life to conquer Hungary , but despite some support in the country, did not succeed.

Mary was rescued from captivity by Sigismund of Luxemburg, to whom she was betrothed. Sigismund took revenge on the murderers of Elizabeth.

The two paragraphs above are not entirely correct.

Mary, Marija, squarely and bitterly acused her estranged husband and consort for arranging the kidnapping and for murder of her beloved mother, i.e., Sigismund 's mother-in-law, Elizabeta.
Mary was rescued by future Frankopan family, who was intermarried to Gorjanski , and Mary's adopted and beloved maternal uncle King Tvrtko .
Mary might have designated Tvrtko as heir apparent as early as 1386 .
However, he died, being probably murdered in 1391 .

From 1387 , Mary and Sigismund were officially joint rulers of Hungary but in fact Sigismund ruled alone. Mary died in 1395 ,
while heavily pregnant and under suspicious circumstances, but without surviving children. In 1410 (after her death) Sigismund was elected Holy Roman Emperor. He remarried.

Mary's closest heir was her youngest sister, Jadwiga Of Poland who, however, also died of child birth complications but without surviving children in 1399 . Mary's husband Sigismund kept her kingdom, and was eventually succeeded by probably his daughter from his second marriage with Mary's cousin Barbara of Cilli , Celje , whose grandmother Katarina Kotromanic was Mary's maternal aunt.

After death of Jadwiga, the heir of Mary's line was their distant cousin Ladislas, the rival claimant. His line went extinct in 1435 , after which the succession of these lines went, in principle, to king Charles VII Of France , heir-general to the eldest daughter of Charles II Of Naples and Mary Arpad Of Hungary .

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