Anna of Hungary (Byzantine empress)

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Anna of Hungary[1] (c. 1260–1281) was a Princess of Hungary and Croatia, and a Byzantine Empress by marriage to Andronikos II Palaiologos.

Tenure1273–1281
Bornc.1260
Died1281
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She was the daughter of Stephen V of Hungary and Elizabeth the Cuman.[2] Anna was granddaughter of Béla IV of Hungary.

On 8 November 1273, Anna married Andronikos II Palaiologos.[2]

Coin of 1304–20 depicting Jesus on one side, and on the other, Anna's widower Andronikos II and her son Michael IX.

According to George Pachymeres, the couple had two children:

Anna died before her husband became senior emperor in 1282. However every Palaiologos emperor to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 descended from her through her son Michael. Anna's sister Elisabeth and Simonida (a daughter of Anna's husband by his second wife) both married King Stefan Milutin of Serbia.

Ancestry

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Ancestors of Anna of Hungary
16. Béla III of Hungary
8. Andrew II of Hungary
17. Agnes of Antioch
4. Béla IV of Hungary
18. Berthold IV, Duke of Merania
9. Gertrude of Merania
19. Agnes of Rochlitz
2. Stephen V of Hungary
20. Manuel Laskaris
10. Theodore I Laskaris
21. Ioanna Karatzaina
5. Maria Laskarina
22. Alexios III Angelos
11. Anna Angelina
23. Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera
1. Anna of Hungary
12. Suthoi, Khan of Cumania
6. Köten
3. Elizabeth the Cuman
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