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Katharine of Hungary (d.1355) was a daughter of Charles I of Hungary and his first wife Mary of Bytom. Her maternal grandparents were Charles Martel of Anjou and Klementia of Habsburg. Her maternal grandparents were Casimir, Duke of Bytom and his wife Helena.

Biography

Family

After the death of Katherine's mother, her father, Charles married Beatrix of Luxemburg, daughter of Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor and sister of King John I of Bohemia, probably in September 1318.

Beatrix however and her only child died at its birth on October 11, 1319. Charles, having widowed for the second time, married Elisabeth of Poland, a daughter of King Wladislaus I of Poland on 6 July 1320. From this marriage, Katharine gained five half brothers, they were:

Marriage and later life

In 1338, Katharine herself married Henry II of Świdnica, son of Bernard of Świdnica and his wife Kunigunde of Poland. The couple had one daughter, Anna von Schweidnitz, who married Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and was mother of Wenceslaus, King of the Romans and Elizabeth of Bohemia.

Katherine was widowed in between 1343 and 1345. Katherine brought up and educated by her daughter, Anna at Visegrád in Hungary. At the age of 11, Anne had been promised to Wenceslaus, newborn son and successor to Charles IV. After the infant Wenceslaus and his mother Anna of the Palatinate died, the now-widowed Emperor asked to marry Anne himself.

Katherine died in 1355, about ten years after her husband, her daughter died in childbirth in 1362.

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