Everything about Anna Of Bohemia And Hungary totally explained
Anna, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary, also sometimes known as
Anna Jagellonica (
Buda (now
Budapest),
Hungary,
July 23,
1503 –
Prague,
Bohemia,
January 27,
1547) was, by marriage to
Ferdinand I,
King of the Romans and later
Holy Roman Emperor, Queen of the Romans, and
heiress presumptive of the kingdoms of
Hungary and
Bohemia.
She was the elder child and only daughter of king
Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (1456-1516) and his third wife
Anna of Foix-Candale. She was an older sister of
Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia, and his eventual heiress.
Her paternal grandparents were King
Casimir IV of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, of the
Jagiellon dynasty, and
Elisabeth of Austria, one of the heiresses of Bohemia,
duchy of Luxembourg and
duchy of Kujavia. Her maternal grandparents were
Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale and
Catherine de Foix, Infanta of the
Kingdom of Navarre.
Life
She was born in
Buda (now
Budapest) and for the first three years of her life was the
heiress presumptive to the thrones of
Bohemia and the
Kingdom of Hungary. The birth of her younger brother Louis on
July 1,
1506, demoted her to second-in-line. Her mother died on
July 26 of the same year.
The death of Vladislaus II on
March 13,
1516 left both siblings in the care of
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. It was arranged that Anna marry his grandson Archduke
Ferdinand of Austria, second son of
Queen regnant Joanna of Castile and her late husband and co-ruler
Philip I of Castile.
Anna married Ferdinand on
May 25,
1521 in
Linz,
Austria. At the time Ferdinand was governing the
Habsburg hereditary lands on behalf of his older brother
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
Her brother Louis was killed in the
Battle of Mohács against
Suleiman the Magnificent of the
Ottoman Empire on
August 29,
1526. This left the thrones of both Bohemia and Hungary vacant, and Anna being the closest living relative of Louis, Ferdinand claimed both kingdoms in her right and was elected King of Bohemia on
October 24 of the same year.
Hungary was a more difficult case. Suleiman had annexed much of its lands. Ferdinand was proclaimed King of Hungary by a group of nobles, but another faction of Hungarian nobles refused to allow a foreign ruler to hold that title and elected
John Zápolya as an alternative king. The resulting conflict between the two rivals and their successors lasted until
1571.
In 1531 Ferdinand's older brother Charles V recognised Ferdinand as his successor as
Holy Roman Emperor, and Ferdinand was elevated to the title
King of the Romans.
Anna and Ferdinand had fifteen children, which was a boon to Bohemia and Hungary, both of which kingdoms had suffered for centuries from premature deaths among heirs and from a shortage of succession prospects.
Meanwhile Anna served as
queen consort of Bohemia and as one of two rival queen consorts of Hungary until her death. She died in her native Prague.
In 1556 Charles V abdicated and Ferdinand succeeded as emperor, nine years after Anna's death.
Children
Further Information
Get more info on 'Anna Of Bohemia And Hungary'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://anna_of_bohemia_and_hungary.totallyexplained.com">Anna of Bohemia and Hungary Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
