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Clementia of Anjou in Poland

Clementia was the daughter of Charles Martel of Anjou, the titular King of Hungary, and Clemence of Austria. Both parents died during her early childhood, and Mary of Hungary, Clementia's grandmother, raised her. The family claimed Hungary through Mary, and so although Clementia was born and grew up in Naples, she was considered a Hungarian princess.

On 1311 in order to advance an alliance with Poland, Clementia of Hungary is married to the crown prince of Poland, Wladyslaw who is 4-5 years younger than her, she was the only younger sister of Caroberto or Charles Robert who was still unmarried and he would want a further alliance with the Kingdom of Poland.

When she arrived in the Polish court she would have been said to have known none of the Polish language when she arrived and initially communicated with her husband, Wladyslaw in German, she and her new husband would like each other easily due to them loving each other and very much fond of each other, although she herself would learn Polish as years would go by.

She is said to be very pious and treats her inlaws very well and improved Poland’s international standing in Western Europe due to her correspondence with her own brother, Charles I of Hungary.

Clementia of Hungary would give birth to three children before her untimely death on 1322, she would give birth to two sons (Boleslaw b. 1315 and Wladyslaw b. 1318) and two daughters (Margaret b. 1314(the wife of Bolko II of Opole) and Clementia b. 1321(Wife of Wenceslaus II of Plock)).

After her untimely death her husband would marry Aldona of Lithuania who would give birth to two further daughters named Elizabeth b. 1326(married Bogislaus V, Duke of Pomerania. Elisabeth's daughter, Elizabeth of Pomerania, was the wife of Albert III, Duke of Austria and Anna b. 1339 (second wife of Louis I of Hungary).

She is said to be the woman who is said to bring some of the Western or French knowledge to France, the marriage of Bolko II of Opole and Margaret of Poland would be also a good consequence of her marriage to the future Wladyslaw II of Poland as the marriage of Margaret of Poland and Bolko was very fruitful despite the fact that they are first cousins which prevented Upper Silesia from completely falling to Bohemia and the Holy Roman Empire and made Opole an ally of the Polish King against Casimir Duke of Cieszyn whose successors would shift their alliance to the Poles, however Lower Silesia would be lost to Bohemia in the long term after the death of Bolko II the Small.

She would also take care of the younger siblings of her husband named Casimir b. 1310 and Jadwiga b. 1320 and would have taken care of the future marriage of her sister in law, Jadwiga to Valdemar IV of Denmark.

The marriage with Clementia would further cement the second match which is the second or third marriage of Charles I of Hungary with Elizabeth of Poland in 1320.
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