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Margherita of Durazzo (
28 July,
1347 –
6 August,
1412) was the
Queen consort of
Charles III of Naples.
Family
She was the fourth daughter of
Charles, Duke of Durazzo (1323 - 1348) and
Maria of Calabria.
Her paternal grandparents were
John, Duke of Durazzo and his second wife Agnes de Périgord. Her maternal grandparents were
Charles, Duke of Calabria and Marie of Valois.
Marie was the eldest daughter of
Charles of Valois and his third wife
Mahaut of Chatillon.
Mahaut was the eldest daughter of
Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol and Marie of Brittany.
Marie was a daughter of
John II, Duke of Brittany and
Beatrice of England.
Marriage
In February,
1369, Margherita married her paternal first cousin
Charles of Durazzo. He was a son of
Louis of Durazzo, another son of
John, Duke of Durazzo and his second wife Agnes de Périgord. The bride was twenty-two year old and the groom twenty-four. They had three children:
Charles managed to depose her maternal aunt
Joan I of Naples in 1382. He succeeded her and Margherita became his Queen consort. Charles succeeded
James of Baux as
Prince of Achaea in 1383 with Margherita still as his consort.
By then becoming the senior
Angevin male, Charles successfully deposed
Mary of Hungary in December, 1385. She was daughter of his deceased cousin
Louis I of Hungary and
Elisabeth of Bosnia. However Elisabeth arranged his assassination at
Visegrád on
24 February,
1386.
Margherita became a
Queen Dowager. She survived him by twenty-six years but never remarried. Their son Ladislas succeeded to the throne of the
Kingdom of Naples while Mary of Hungary was restored to her throne.
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