Matilda of Požega (born c. 1210 - died after 1255) was daughter of Margaret of Courtenay (d. 1270), princess of the

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, from her first marriage with Raoul III, Lord of

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. Matilda was married (c. 1230) to John Angelos, Lord of

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(d. before 1250) in the

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. After his death, she held the city of Požega in the medieval

Požega County Požega County (; ) was a historic administrative subdivision (''Counties of Croatia, županija'') of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. Croatia-Slavonia was an autonomous kingdom within the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen (Transleithania ...

(c. 1250-1255).

Parents

Matilda's mother Margaret was daughter of

Peter Courtenay Peter Courtenay may refer to: *Peter Courtenay (bishop) (c. 1432–1492), English bishop and politician *Sir Peter Courtenay (KG) (1346–1405), soldier and knight *Sir Peter Courtenay (died 1552), of Ugbrooke, Sheriff of Devon in 1548/9 *Peter Co ...

(d. 1219),

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, and his second wife

Yolanda of Flanders Yolanda of Hainault (; 1175 – August 1219), often called Yolanda of Flanders, was Empress of the Latin Empire in Constantinople, first as the wife of Peter II of Courtenay, Emperor Peter from 1216 to 1217 and thereafter as regent until her de ...

. Margaret′s brothers, consequent Latin emperors

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(d. 1228) and Baldwin II (d. 1273), were Matilda′s maternal uncles. Regarding her father, some earlier researches assumed that she was born from her mothers second marriage, with Henry I, Count of Vianden (d. 1252), but later scholars pointed out that Margaret's first husband Raoul III of

did mention their "little daughter" (lat. ''filiola'') Matilda in his 1212 testament, and thus was shown that she was born from Margaret's first marriage.

Marriage and descendants

Since Matilda's mother Margaret was sister to

Yolanda, Queen of Hungary Yolanda of Courtenay ( 1200 – June 1233), was a queen of Hungary as the second wife of King Andrew II of Hungary. Yolanda was the daughter of Count Peter II of Courtenay and his second wife, Yolanda of Flanders, the sister of Baldwin I and ...

(d. 1233), a marriage was arranged (c. 1230) between Matilda and John Angelos, son of Yolanda's sister-in-law

Margaret of Hungary Margaret of Hungary (''Margit'' in Hungarian; b. 1175 – d. after 1229) was a Hungarian princess from the House of Árpád. She was a Byzantine Empress by marriage to Isaac II Angelos (d. 1204), and Queen of Thessalonica by marriage to Boni ...

from her first husband, Byzantine Emperor

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(d. 1204). Matilda's husband John became Lord of

in the medieval

, and after his death (before 1250), Matilda became the Lady of Požega in medieval

(central region in modern

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). Already in 1250, she was mentioned as "''noble lady, widow of lord John, countess of Požega''" (lat. ''nobilis domine relicte domini Johannis, comitisse de Posoga''). Their daughter Maria was married (c. 1253-1255) to Anselm de Cayeux, who later (before 1269) became

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of the Latin Emperor

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, Matilda′s uncle. Various issues regarding the attribution of data related to two persons (father and son) who had the same name (

Anselm de Cayeux Anseau de Cayeux or Anselm de Cayeux (; ) was a French knight from Picardy, who participated in the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) and later became one of the leading nobles of the Latin Empire of Constantinople, serving under emperors Baldwin I (120 ...

), have been discussed in several genealogical studies, since some napolitan and ragusan sources from the 1280s suggest that Matilda′s daughter Maria had a ''sister'' (lat. ''soror''), or at least a half-sister Helen, Queen of Serbia (d. 1314). If some of those assumptions are correct, Matilda would be Helen's mother too, and thus the maternal grandmother of Serbian kings

Stefan Dragutin Stefan Dragutin ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Драгутин, ; died 12 March 1316), was List of Serbian monarchs, King of Serbia from 1276 to 1282. From 1282, he ruled a Realm of Stefan Dragutin, separate kingdom which included northern Serbia, and ...

(d. 1316) and

Stefan Milutin Stefan Uroš II Milutin ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Урош II Милутин, Stefan Uroš II Milutin; 1253 – 29 October 1321), known as Saint King, was the King of Serbia between 1282–1321, a member of the Nemanjić dynasty. He was one ...

(d. 1321).

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