Margaret of Durazzo

Margaret of Durazzo
Margaret of Durazzo
	File:Margherita di durazzo.jpg
	Ephigy at Salerno Cathedral
Personal details
Born	28 July 1347
Died	6 August 1412 (aged 65); Acquamela, Kingdom of Naples
Spouse(s)	Charles III of Naples

Margaret of Durazzo (Italian language: Margherita di Durazzo

28 July 1347 – 6 August 1412) was Queen of Naples and Hungary and Princess of Achaea^[1]^[2] as the spouse of Charles III of Naples. She was regent of Naples from 1386 until 1393 during the minority of her son Ladislaus of Naples.

Life[]

She was the fourth daughter of Charles, Duke of Durazzo (1323–1348) and Maria of Calabria, but the only one to have children; her legitimate line of descent, as well as the century-old Capetian House of Anjou, ended with her daughter.

In February, 1369, Margaret married her paternal first cousin Charles of Durazzo. He was a son of Louis of Durazzo, another son of John, Duke of Durazzo and his second wife Agnes de Périgord. The bride was twenty-two years old and the groom twenty-four.

Queen[]

Charles managed to depose her maternal aunt Queen Joanna I of Naples in 1382. He succeeded her and Margaret became his queen consort. Charles succeeded James of Baux as Prince of Achaea in 1383 with Margaret still as his consort.

By then becoming the senior Angevin male, Charles was offered the Crown of Hungary. Margaret did not support the idea of deposing Queen Mary of Hungary and discouraged her husband from doing so. Nonetheless, he successfully deposed Mary in December 1385 and himself crowned. She was daughter of his deceased cousin Louis I of Hungary and Elizabeth of Bosnia. However, Mary's formidable mother Elizabeth arranged his assassination at Visegrád on 24 February 1386.^[3]

Regent[]

Margaret became a queen dowager and the regent of Naples as the guardian of her minor son from 1386 until 1393. She survived her husband by twenty-six years but never remarried. Their son Ladislaus succeeded to the throne of the Kingdom of Naples while Mary of Hungary was restored to her throne. Margaret insisted that her husband's death be revenged and Elizabeth was murdered. The heads of her defenders were sent to console Margaret.^[4]^[5]

Later life[]

In the last years of her life, the queen dowager retired first to Salerno and then to Acquamela, where she died of plague in 1412. She had become a devout Catholic and a member of a Franciscan Third Order in her last years and requested to be buried as such; she was buried in white habit in Salerno Cathedral.

Issue[]

Mary of Durazzo (1369–1371).
Joanna II of Naples (23 June 1373 – 2 February 1435)
Ladislaus of Naples (11 February 1377 – 6 August 1414)

Ancestry[]

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External links[]

Marek, Miroslav. "A listing of descendants of Charles I of Sicily". Genealogy.EU. http://genealogy.euweb.cz/capet/capet19.html#MCD.

References[]

↑ "Charles III". http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/106912/Charles-III. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
↑ "Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon 1000–1990". http://mek.oszk.hu/00300/00355/html/index.html. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
↑ Grierson, Philip; Travaini, Lucia (1998). Medieval European coinage: with a catalogue of the coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Volume 14. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-58231-8.
↑ Parsons, John Carmi (1997). Medieval Queenship. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-17298-2.
↑ Myrl Jackson-Laufer, Guida (1990). Women rulers throughout the ages: an illustrated guide, Part 107. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-57607-091-3.

Royal titles
Margaret of Durazzo House of Anjou-Durazzo Born: 1347 Died: 1412
Preceded by Sancha of Majorca	Queen consort of Naples 1382 – 24 February 1386	Succeeded by Mary of Lusignan
Preceded by Elisabeth of Bosnia	Queen consort of Hungary 1385 – 24 February 1386	Succeeded by Barbara of Cilli

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[1] "Charles III". http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/106912/Charles-III. Retrieved 13 December 2014.

[2] "Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon 1000–1990". http://mek.oszk.hu/00300/00355/html/index.html. Retrieved 13 December 2014.

[Grierson-3] Grierson, Philip; Travaini, Lucia (1998). Medieval European coinage: with a catalogue of the coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Volume 14. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-58231-8.

[Parsons-4] Parsons, John Carmi (1997). Medieval Queenship. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-17298-2.

[Myrl-5] Myrl Jackson-Laufer, Guida (1990). Women rulers throughout the ages: an illustrated guide, Part 107. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-57607-091-3.

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