Anna of Hungary (Byzantine empress)

Byzantine Empress consort

Anna of Hungary^[1] (c. 1260–1281) was a Princess of Hungary and Croatia, and a Byzantine Empress by marriage to Andronikos II Palaiologos.

She was the daughter of Stephen V of Hungary and Elizabeth the Cuman.^[2] Anna was granddaughter of Béla IV of Hungary.

On 8 November 1273, Anna married Andronikos II Palaiologos.^[2]

Coin of 1304–20 depicting Jesus on one side, and on the other, Anna's widower Andronikos II and her son Michael IX.

According to George Pachymeres, the couple had two children:

• Michael IX Palaiologos^[3]
• 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 Elisabeth and Simonida (a daughter of Anna's husband by his second wife) both married King Stefan Milutin of Serbia.

Ancestry

References

1. In Greek: Ἄννα; in Hungarian: Anna; in Croatian: Ana
2. Previte-Orton 1962, p. 922.
3. Giannouli 2013, p. 206.

Sources

• Byzantine Empire portal

• Giannouli, Antonia (2013). "Coronation Speeches in the Palaiologan Period". In Beihammer, Alexander; Constantinou, Stavroula; Parani, Maria (eds.). Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in Byzantium and the Medieval Mediterranean. Brill.
• Previte-Orton, C.W. (1962). The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. II. Cambridge at the University Press.