Matilda of Vianden, Lady of Požega

Matilda of Vianden, Lady of Požega (born before 1220 - died after 1255) was daughter of Henry I, Count of Vianden (d. 1252) and Margaret of Courtenay (d. 1270), princess of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. Matilda′s father Henry was a prominent noble from the House of Vianden, while her mother Margaret was daughter of Peter Courtenay (d. 1219), Latin Emperor of Constantinople. Margaret′s brothers, consequent Latin emperors Robert (d. 1228) and Baldwin II (d. 1273), were Matilda′s maternal uncles.[1][2]

Matilda of Vianden
Lady of Požega
Lady of Syrmia
Lady of Požega
Bornbefore 1220
Diedafter 1255
SpousesJohn Angelos of Syrmia
IssueMaria Angelina of Syrmia
Helen, Queen of Serbia (possible)
HouseHouse of Vianden (by birth)
House of Angelos (by marriage)
FatherHenry I, Count of Vianden
MotherMargaret of Courtenay

Matilda was married (c. 1235) to John Angelos, Lord of Syrmia in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. John was son of Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelos (d. 1204) and Princess Margaret of Hungary. John died before 1253, and Matilda became the Lady of Požega in medieval Požega County (central region in modern Slavonia). Their daughter Maria was married (c. 1253-1255) to Anselm de Cayeux, who later (before 1269) became camerlengo of the Latin Emperor Baldwin II of Constantinople, Maria′s great-uncle.[3][4]

Various issues regarding the attribution of data related to two persons (father and son) who had the same name (Anselm de Cayeux),[5] have been discussed in several genealogical studies, since sources from the 1280s and 1290s suggest that Matilda′s daughter Maria had a sister Helen, Queen of Serbia (d. 1314).[6][7][8][9]

If those assumptions are correct, Matilda would be maternal grandmother of Serbian kings Stefan Dragutin and Stefan Milutin.

References
  1. McDaniel 1984, p. 43.
  2. McDaniel 1986, p. 196.
  3. Bourel 1895, p. 13.
  4. Berger 1897, p. 289, 351.
  5. Angold 2011, p. 54.
  6. McDaniel 1984.
  7. McDaniel 1986.
  8. Petrovitch 2015.
  9. Bácsatyai 2017.

Sources
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  • Geanakoplos, Deno John (1953). "Greco-Latin Relations on the Eve of the Byzantine Restoration: The Battle of Pelagonia–1259". Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 7: 99–141.
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  • McDaniel, Gordon L. (1984). "On Hungarian-Serbian Relations in the Thirteenth Century: John Angelos and Queen Jelena" (PDF). Ungarn-Jahrbuch. 12 (1982-1983): München, 1984: 43–50.
  • McDaniel, Gordon L. (1986). "The House of Anjou and Serbia". Louis the Great: King of Hungary and Poland. Boulder: East European Monographs. pp. 191–200.
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