Maria I, Queen of Hungary

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• Alternate birth: Between 1257 and 1258

Maria married Charles II, King of Naples, Sicily, and Jerusalem in 1270. Charles (son of Charles I Etienne, King of Naples and Sicily and Beatrice de Provence) was born in 1254; died on 5 May 1309 in Casanueva, near Naples, Campania, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Margaret of Anjou was born in 1272; died on 31 Dec 1299; was buried in Church of St. Jacques, Paris, France.
2. Eleanora d'Anjou was born in Aug 1289; died on 9 Aug 1341 in Catania, Sicily.

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• Alternate birth: 1240
• Alternate death: 6 Aug 1272

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Also called Steven, Stephan. Turned back the invasion of Hungary led by Otakar II of Bohemia.

Istvan married Erszebet of Kumania. Erszebet (daughter of Kuthan, Khan of the Cumans) died after 1290. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Defeated by the Mongols 1241, he fled to Dalmatia, returned 1242 to a destroyed country and devoted the rest of his reign to its reconstruction and defense against neighboring incursions." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

Béla married Maria Laskarina about 1218. Maria (daughter of Theodoros I Komnenos Laskaris, Emperor in Nicea and Anna Komnena Angelina) was born about 1206 in of Nicea, Anatolia; died in 1270. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Köten, Kutan, Kuthens, Kotyan, Kotjan, Koteny, Kötöny, Kuethan, Zayhan, and Jonas, he was the leader of the Kipchaks, a Turkic people called Cumans by the Byzantines, Kun by the Hungarians, and Polovtsy by the Russians. They were a shamanist Turko-Mongol tribe which controlled the steppes above the Sea of Azov.

From Wikipedia: "Köten (Russian: ?????, Hungarian: Kötöny, Arabic: Kutan?; fl. 1223–41) was a Cuman–Kipchak chieftain (khan) and military commander active in the mid-13th century. He forged an important alliance with the Kievan Rus against the Mongols but was ultimately defeated by them at the Kalka River. After the Mongol victory in 1238, Köten led 40,000 'huts' to Hungary, where he became an ally of the Hungarian king and accepted Catholicism, but was nonetheless assassinated by the Hungarian nobility."

Said to have been the son of a Suthoi, Khan of the Kumans.

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• Alternate death: 26 Oct 1235

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"On advice of Pope set out with an army of 15,000 men on crusade to the Holy Land, 1217, but the expedition failed. Upon his return he found Hungary in near anarchy. Hungarian nobles extorted from him the Golden Bull (Hungarian Magna Charta), 1222." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

András married Gertrud von Meran before 1203. Gertrud (daughter of Berthold VI von Andechs and Agnes von Nieder-Lausitz) was born about 1185; died on 28 Sep 1213. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Leo van de Pas's site:

Theodoros distinguished himself during the siege of Constantinople by the crusaders of the Fourth Crusade in 1203-04. After the sack of the city he established himself in the town of Nicaea that became the rallying point for the Byzantines.

Theodoros formed a new Byzantine state in Asia Minor and in 1206 assumed the title of emperor. His state was besieged by his enemies, but he fought successful defensive campaigns against the Latin emperor of Constantinople Henri of Flanders. He defeated his rival Alexius I, emperor of Trebizond, and successfully attacked Kay Khusrau I, the sultan of Rüm (Iconium or Konya). Theodore's most important victory was gained in 1210 when he captured Alexius and the city of Antioch.

He had five children by his first wife Anna Komnene Angelina, who died in 1212. Two daughters would have progeny. He next married Philippa of Armenia, but this marriage was annulled after one year on religious grounds. Their son Konstantinos had no rights to the throne, instead becoming duke of Thrakesion. In 1219 he married Marie de Courtenay .

By the time of his death in August 1222 Theodoros had ruled over a territory covering the old Roman provinces of Asia and Bithynia. By his courage and military skill he enabled the Byzantine nation not only to survive, but ultimately to defeat the Latin invaders.

Theodoros married Anna Komnena Angelina in 1199. Anna (daughter of Alexios III Komnenos Angelos, Emperor of Byzantium and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina) was born about 1174; died in 1212. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]