The queen of Hungary keeps her own household, her own officers and her own people on estates set apart for the queen, and by custom the bishop of Veszprém crowns her (the bishops of Veszprém later also serve as the queen's chancellors).
Which estates Constance held on 1 January 1200 is not recorded in any source checked here, and none is drawn. Her household included Tota, her lady-in-waiting, whose brothers Simon and Bertrand (Bertram) founded the Nagymarton family; about 1201-1202 Tota married Benedict son of Korlát and received Bajót and Nagymarton (Mattersburg) as dower, and the queen won a tax exemption for Nagymarton (both later than 1 January 1200). She has no child yet: her son Ladislaus is born about 1200.
She will flee with him to Vienna after Emeric's death (1204-1205) and in 1209 marry Frederick II of Sicily.
Who he is
- Name
- Constance of Aragon
- Title
- Queen of Hungary
- Since
- Married 1196 or 1198 (sources differ)
- Born
- About 1179 (not pinned)
- Family
- Daughter of King Alfonso II of Aragon (died 1196) and Sancha of Castile; sister of King Peter II of Aragon.
- Confidence
- medium
Marriage and later life from the English Wikipedia life of Constance; the queen's household from general reference.
Overlord
King Emeric
What it holds
- The queen's household: her lady-in-waiting Tota and Tota's brothers Simon and Bertrand (other officers not pinned)
- Estates and people set apart for the queen (not pinned for 1200)
How it was acquired
By marriage.
Allies and rivals
Her husband's party; her Aragonese kin far off. No independent faction recorded.
How things stand that morning
At court with Emeric; childless that morning as far as the sources show.
Military
None of her own recorded.
Threats
- A childless queen's position rests on bearing an heir
What the year holds
What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.
- About 1200 (not pinned)Birth of her son Ladislaus.Depends on: A natural event. Stopped by: Death or miscarriage; the date may be 1201.
Places of note
- Veszprém: the bishop who crowns the queen: By custom the bishop of Veszprém crowns the queen.
Where the sources disagree
- Marriage year 1196 (English Wikipedia, Constance) or 1198 (assignment; her queenship in the same article's infobox).
Evidence: Her marriage and later life are well attested; her Hungarian estates in 1200 are not.
On the map: No estate is drawn because none is pinned for 1200.
Primary sources for Hungary
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Chronicle of Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Alberic of Trois-Fontaines (about 1227 to 1241, at the Cistercian abbey of Trois-Fontaines in Champagne). The widest net of any Latin chronicle for 1200, compiled from dozens of sources, many now lost. Read online
- The Austrian and Salzburg annals (kept in the 12th and 13th centuries, with continuations to the late 13th century). A family of monastic annals from Austria, Styria and Salzburg, printed together. Read online
- The Hypatian Chronicle (the Kievan Chronicle compiled about 1200 at the Vydubichi monastery; the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle in the 13th century). The southern record. Read online
- History of the bishops of Salona and Split, by Thomas the Archdeacon, Thomas of Split (about 1266). Written two generations later by a Split churchman born about 1200. Read online
- History of the doges of Venice (about 1229, with a continuation). The earliest surviving Venetian narrative close to the events. Read online
- The Deeds of the Hungarians, by the Anonymous Notary of King Béla, Anonymus (P. magister) (about 1200 to 1210, the date disputed). Not a record of events but a picture of the kingdom's nobility and geography as a courtier of about 1200 wished to see it: the clans and their lands, the castles and counties, the Vlachs, Cumans and other peoples of the Carpathian basin, all projected back onto the conquest. Read online
- The Book of Census of the Roman Church, Cencius Camerarius (Cencio Savelli, later Pope Honorius III) (1192, with later additions). The papal rent roll: every church, monastery, town and kingdom that owed a census to Rome in 1192, diocese by diocese, with the sums, followed by lists of papal lands and castles, the ceremonial Ordo and copies of charters. Read online
- The Registers of Pope Innocent III for 1199 to 1201, Innocent III and the papal chancery (22 February 1199 to 21 February 1201). The pope's outgoing letters for the year, in his chancery's own copy, touching nearly every realm in the atlas. Read online
4 more in the sources library for Poland, Hungary and the Adriatic.
Sources and studies
- Constance of Aragon, Holy Roman Empress (English Wikipedia)
- Benedict, son of Korlát (English Wikipedia: Tota and her brothers)
- Veszprém (English Wikipedia)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.