Adelaide/Rixa of Poland

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Adelaide/Rixa of Poland, (c. 1018 – after 1059), Queen Consort of Hungary.

She was a daughter of King Mieszko II Lambert of Poland, and his wife, Richeza of Lotharingia. She is called traditionally Rixa, but contemporary sources do not confirm this name. Nowadays it is supposed that she was called Adelaide^[1].

Between 1039 and 1043, she was married to Duke Béla of Hungary, who had served her father and taken part in her father's campaigns against the pagan Pomeran tribes.

In 1048, her husband received one third of Hungary ("Tercia pars Regni") as appanage from his brother, King Andrew I of Hungary, and the couple moved to Hungary. On 6 December 1060, her husband was crowned King of Hungary after defeating his brother. She possibly was not alive at the time of his husband's coronation.

[edit] Marriage and children

# 1039-1043: King Béla I of Hungary (c. 1016 – 11 September 1063)

• King Géza I of Hungary (c. 1040 – 25 April 1077)
• King Ladislaus I of Hungary (c. 1040 – 29 July 1095)
• Duke Lampert of Hungary (after 1050 – c. 1095)
• Sophia (after 1050 – 18 June 1095), wife firstly of Markgraf Ulrich I of Carniola, and secondly of duke Magnus I of Saxony
• Euphemia (after 1050 – 2 April 1111), wife of Prince Otto I of Moravia
• Ilona (after 1050 – c. 1091), wife of king Dmitar Zvonimir of Croatia
• Unnamed girl (after 1050 – befor 1132), wife of comes (count) Lampert de genere Hont-Pázmány

[edit] Sources

• Kristó, Gyula - Makk, Ferenc: Az Árpád-ház uralkodói (IPC Könyvek, 1996)
• Korai Magyar Történeti Lexikon (9-14. század), főszerkesztő: Kristó, Gyula, szerkesztők: Engel, Pál és Makk, Ferenc (Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1994)
• Magyarország Történeti Kronológiája I. – A kezdetektől 1526-ig, főszerkesztő: Benda, Kálmán (Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1981)

[edit] References

Preceded by Anastasia of Kiev

Queen Consort of Hungary 1160–1163

Succeeded by Judith of Swabia