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Personal data Elisabeth van Hongarije 

• She was born in the year 1128.

  Attention: Age at marriage (??-??-1136) below 16 years (8).

• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Elizabeth of Hungary (Hungarian: Erzsébet magyar hercegno, Polish: Elzbieta wegierska; b. c.?1128 - d. 21 July bef. 1154), was a Hungarian princess member of the House of Árpád and by marriage Duchess of Greater Poland.
  
  She was the eldest child of King Béla II of Hungary by his wife Helena, daughter of Duke Uroš I of Raška, Grand Župan of Serbia. This parentage is confirmed in several web sources[1][2] who followed the message of chronicler Jan Dlugosz; however, modern historians led by Oswald Balzer refuted this theory on basis of chronological reasons: if Elizabeth's marriage date is correct, she must have been only between 8 and 9 years old, an age which seems extremely young for a bride, even by the standards of the Middle Ages. Balzer assumed that Elizabeth was a daughter of Prince Álmos, Duke of Croatia (father of King Béla II), a parentage which also is supported by further web sources.[3][4] The disadvantage of this hypothesis are the message of medieval chronicles (for example, the Chronicon Polono-Silesiacum), who firmly established that Elizabeth was a daughter of the Hungarian King, a title Álmos never used because he was only a prince. Another theory was proposed by Kazimierz Jasinski: in his opinion, Elizabeth was a daughter of King Stephen II. Although sources indicated that because of his dissolute lifestyle, Stephen II didn't have any surviving children, according to Jasinski this messages are originated from a later period and don't deserve trust; also, it should be taken into account that frequently skipping for the chroniclers the birth of female offspring.[5]
  Life
  
  Around 1136, Elizabeth married with Prince Mieszko, son of the Polish ruler Boleslaw III Wrymouth. The wedding was performed as a result of the agreement concluded a year earlier in Merseburg. Two years later (28 October 1138), Duke Boleslaw III died; according to his will, Mieszko inherited the Greater Poland province and became in his first duke, with Elizabeth as his duchess.
  
  During her marriage, Elizabeth bore her husband five children, two sons —Odon and Stephen— and three daughters —Elizabeth (Duchess of Bohemia and Margravine of Lusatia), Wierzchoslawa Ludmilla (Duchess of Lorraine) and Judith (Countess of Anhalt and Duchess of Saxony).[6]
  
  Elizabeth died in 1154 aged twenty-six or twenty-seven. Nineteen years later, in 1173, her husband became High Duke and overlord of all Poland.

• She died before July 21, 1154.
• A child of Béla II "de Blinde" van Hongarije and Helena van Rascia
• This information was last updated on March 27, 2013.

Household of Elisabeth van Hongarije

(1) She is married to Stefan IV van Smyrnia.

They got married

(2) She is married to Mieszko III "de Oude" van Polen.

They got married in the year 1136, she was 8 years old.Source 1

Child(ren):

1. Odon van Poznan  1149-1194
2. Stephen van Polen  1150-1166
3. Wierzchloslawa Ludmilla van Polen  1150-1223 
4. Elisabeth van Polen  1152-1209 
5. Judith van Polen  < 1154-> 1201

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