Clementia of Hungary

Clementia of Hungary was queen consort of France and Navarre through her marriage to Louis X. After Louis’s death, she gave birth to John I, whose brief life intensified the succession problems of the Capetian monarchy.

In Maurice Druon’s The Poisoned Crown, Louis X marries Clementia of Hungary in the hope of producing an undisputed heir, but his authority is weakened by famine, noble resistance and an unsuccessful expedition against Flanders. Maurice Druon’s The Royal Succession places Clementia of Hungary within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, political ambition and government, and religion, belief and institutional authority.