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Helena of Hungary, Queen of Croatia

Queen Consort of Croatia (1075–c.1089)

Summary

Queen Consort of Croatia (1075–c.1089)

Field	Value
consort	yes
name	Helen of Hungary
image	Helen of Hungary (cropped).jpg
caption	Depiction of queen Helen on Mantle of king Ladislaus I. from late 11th century.
death_date
succession1	Regent of Croatia
reign1	1089–1090
succession2	Queen consort of Croatia
reign2	1075–c. 1089
dynasty	Árpád
spouse	Demetrius Zvonimir
issue	Radovan
Klaudija
Vinica
father	Béla I of Hungary
mother	Richeza of Poland

Klaudija Vinica Helen of Hungary, also known as Helen the Fair (; ) (d. 1091), was a queen consort of Croatia.

Family

Helen was born as a Hungarian princess and was the daughter of Árpád dynasty's king Bela I, sister to Ladislaus I of Hungary, granddaughter of Polish king Mieszko II Lambert.

Marriage

Helen became queen of Croatia during her marriage with Croatian king Demetrius Zvonimir, a distant relative whom she married in 1063. They had a son named Radovan, who died in his late teens or early twenties, and daughters named Claudia and Vinica.

Helen had excellent family connections, being an aunt to Irene, the mother of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.

Helen was very popular with the Croats, and they often called her Jelena Lijepa ("Helen the Beautiful"). She is thought to have been an influential consort.

Upon the death of Zvonimir, Helen was said to have been quietly plotting the inheritance of the Croatian Crown for her brother, the King of Hungary. This situation caused a decade of war and instability in the kingdom, resulting in the personal union of Croatia and Hungary that lasted until 1918. Helen died around 1091.

Notes

References

Deliso, Christopher. (2020-11-06). "The History of Croatia and Slovenia". Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
''Codex Diplomaticus Croatiæ'', Vol. I, CCXI, p. 177.
''Monumenta Historiam Slavorum Meridionalium'', Vol. VII, Acta, 121, p. 146.
[http://www.matica.hr/HRRevija/revija042.nsf/AllWebDocs/marijan Zdravka Jelaska Marijan: "Dolazak ugarskoga kralja"]

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