Charles Martel of Anjou

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Charles Martel of Anjou
titular King of Hungary
Spouse	Klementia of Habsburg
Issue
Charles I of Hungary Beatrix of Hungary Clementia of Hungary
Father	Charles II of Naples
Mother	Maria of Hungary
Born	8 September 1271
Died	12 August 1295 (aged 24)

Charles Martel (8 September 1271 – 12 August 1295) of the Angevin dynasty, also known as Charles I Martel, (French: Charles Martel d'Anjou, Italian: Carlo Martello) was the eldest son of king Charles II of Naples and Maria of Hungary, the daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary.

The 18-year-old Charles Martel was set up by Pope Nicholas IV and the ecclesiastical party as the titular King of Hungary (1290–1295) as successor of his maternal uncle, the childless Ladislaus IV of Hungary against whom the Pope had already earlier declared a crusade.

He never managed to govern the Kingdom of Hungary, where an agnate of the Árpád dynasty, his cousin Andrew III of Hungary actually ruled that period. Charles Martel was, however, successful in asserting his claims in parts of Croatia, a kingdom then in personal union with Hungary.

Charles Martel died young in Naples, during the lifetime of his parents. His son, Charles (or Charles Robert), would ultimately succeed where he had failed in winning the throne of Hungary.

Charles was apparently known personally to Dante: in the Divine Comedy the poet speaks warmly of and to Charles's spirit when they meet in the Heaven of Venus.

[edit] Family

He married Klementia of Habsburg (d.1295), daughter of Rudolph I, Holy Roman Emperor.

They had three children:

• Charles I of Hungary (1288–1342), King of Hungary
• Beatrix (1290–1354, Grenoble), married on 25 May 1296 Jean II de La Tour du Pin, Dauphin du Viennois
• Clementia (February 1293 – 12 October 1328, Paris), married in Paris on 13 August 1315 Louis X of France

[edit] Ancestry

16. Philip II of France

8. Louis VIII of France

17. Isabelle of Hainaut

4. Charles I of Naples

18. Alfonso VIII of Castile

9. Blanche of Castile

19. Leonora of England

2. Charles II of Naples

20. Alfonso II, Count of Provence

10. Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence

21. Gersenda II of Sabran

5. Beatrice of Provence

22. Thomas I of Savoy

11. Beatrice of Savoy

23. Marguerite of Geneva

1. Charles Martel of Anjou

24. Andrew II of Hungary

12. Béla IV of Hungary

25. Gertrude of Merania

6. Stephen V of Hungary

26. Theodore I Laskaris

13. Maria Laskarina

27. Anna Angelina

3. Maria of Hungary

28. Suthoi, Khan of Cumania

14. Kuthen, Khan of Cumania

7. Elizabeth the Cuman

15. Mstislawna of Galicia

[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

• (French) Coat of arms of the House of Anjou-Sicily on the French Wikipedia
• (French) House of Anjou-Sicily on the French Wikipedia