Helena of Raška

Helena of Raška

Helena of Raška, (after 1109 – after 1146), Queen Consort of Hungary.

Helena was the daughter of Duke Uroš I of Raška and his wife, Anna. Around 1129, King Stephen II of Hungary arranged her marriage with his cousin Béla, who had been blinded on the order of the king's father, King Coloman of Hungary. The king granted estates near Tolna to the couple.

Following the childless king's death, her husband was crowned King of Hungary on 28 April 1131. Helena exerted material influence over her blind husband during his reign. It was she who persuaded his husband's partisans, with her two sons in her arms, to massacre, at an assembly in Arad, 68 aristocrats they suspected of having suggested King Coloman to blind her husband.

When her husband died on 13 February 1141, their eldest son Géza II ascended the throne who was still a child. Therefore, Helena and her brother Beluš, whom she had invited to the court, governed the Kingdom of Hungary till September 1146 when he came of age.

Marriage and children

"# c. 1129:" King Béla II of Hungary (c. 1110 – 13 February 1141)
* Elisabeth (c. 1129 – before 1155), wife of duke Mieszko III of Poland
* King Géza II of Hungary (c. 1130 – 3 May 1162)
* King Ladislaus II of Hungary (1131 – 14 January 1163)
* King Stephen IV of Hungary (c. 1133 – 11 April 1165)
* Sophia (c. 1136 – ?), nun at Admont

ources

* Soltész, István: "Árpád-házi királynék" (Gabo, 1999)
* Kristó, Gyula - Makk, Ferenc: "Az Árpád-ház uralkodói" (IPC Könyvek, 1996)


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