Clementia of Hungary
(1293-1328)
BIRTH
1293
PLACE
Naples, Italy
DEATH
October 13, 1328
PLACE
Paris, France
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Clementia of Hungary was the second wife of Louis X of France and the mother of John I, the infant king who lived only five days. Her brother Charles Robert later became king of Hungary. Clementia married Louis X on August 19, 1315, at Saint-Lyé near Troyes, and the couple were crowned at Reims that month. Louis died in June 1316 while Clementia was pregnant. She died in Paris on October 13, 1328, and was buried in the Dominican church there.
EARLY LIFE
Clementia was born in 1293 in Naples, the daughter of Charles Martel of Anjou, titular King of Hungary, and Klementia of Habsburg, a daughter of the German king Rudolf I. Both of her parents died when she was a small child, and she was raised in Naples by her grandmother, Mary of Hungary, the wife of Charles II of Naples. Her brother Charles Robert later became king of Hungary. In 1315, after the death of Louis X's imprisoned first wife, Margaret of Burgundy, a marriage was arranged between the French king and the Angevin princess.
Clementia married Louis X on August 19, 1315, at Saint-Lyé near Troyes, and the couple were crowned at Reims that month.
Louis died in June 1316 while Clementia was pregnant. On November 15, 1316, she gave birth to a son, John I, who was king from birth but died five days later. The crown passed to Louis's brother, Philip V.
As a widow Clementia lived for a time in Provence, then returned to Paris. She died in Paris on October 13, 1328, and was buried in the Dominican church there.
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Clementia of Hungary then left the French court for Aix-en-Provence, where she stayed until 1321, when she returned to Paris. The crown passed to Louis's brother, Philip V. As a widow Clementia lived for a time in Provence, then returned to Paris. Clementia of Hungary was the second wife of Louis X of France and the mother of John I, the infant king who lived only five days. Her brother Charles Robert later became king of Hungary. Clementia married Louis X on August 19, 1315, at Saint-Lyé near Troyes, and the couple were crowned at Reims that month. Louis died in June 1316 while Clementia was pregnant. She died in Paris on October 13, 1328, and was buried in the Dominican church there. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Clementia of Hungary, Louis X’s second queen. Proctor-Tiffany studies her possessions and patronage; the other works supply royal and dynastic context. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Collective biography, family reference, primary writings and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. Medieval Art in Motion: The Inventory and Gift Giving of Queen Clémence de Hongrie — Mariah Proctor-Tiffany. [Biographical, cultural and patronage study] Find on Amazon
2. Queenship in Medieval France, 1300–1500 — Murielle Gaude-Ferragu. [Collective biography] Find on Amazon
3. Capetian Women — Kathleen D. Nolan (editor). [Collective biography] Find on Amazon
4. The Capetians: Kings of France, 987–1328 — Jim Bradbury. [Related political and biographical history] Find on Amazon
5. Capetian France, 987–1328 — Elizabeth M. Hallam; Judith Everard. [Related political and biographical history] Find on Amazon
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