Trois Mort - The Year of the Two Queens - Premyslid Millenium

Trois Mort - The Year of the Two Queens - Premyslid Millenium

The Three deaths

On 1260, the Sovereign High Duchess of Poland, Kunigunde dies due to a sickness, that wife was said to be pious and refused to consumate her own marriage, on the same time the regent of Sicily, Manfred dies due to a suspicious incident but it was believed that the papal agents have him killed, on the same time, Elisabeth the Cuman dies due to her pregnancy complication after the birth of her daughter, Anna.

It is arranged that Konradin, the King of Sicily would marry the eldest daughter of Elisabeth the Cuman and Prince Stephen of Hungary named Elisabeth the Younger in exchange Constance of Sicily, the daughter of the dead Manfred would be married to Stephen of Hungary while Elisabeth of Bavaria, the former Holy Roman Empress would marry the widower Boleslaw, who was known as the chaste due to his marriage to Kunigunde.

The marriages did happen on 1261, the marriages between Elisabeth of Bavaria and Boleslaw the Chaste and Constance of Sicily and Stephen of Hungary and celebrated on their respective countries.
 
Konradin and Elisabeth of Hungary
Princess Elisabeth is a very young bride that she felt very uncomfortable of the situation and the future marriage, the two became proxy married when she was the age of 10 in 1265, she felt anxious about the marriage.

In this time, Konradin was pressured to focus only in Sicily and had a revolt in Swabia led by Rudolf of Habsburg and Konradin was forced to concede defeat to the Habsburgs, that would mean that his focus will be his new land of Naples and Sicily, he himself would be very anxious.

On 1268, Konradin is crowned as the King of Sicily and his wife Elisabeth with him who just arrived from Hungary, this would be the start of his actual reign.
 
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