Coat of arms of King Charles I of Hungary (v2)

Coat of arms

Charles I, like the other Angevin kings, retained the fleur-de-lis in the Angevin family coat of arms to emphasize their right of succession and supplemented it with the fleur-de-lis in the Angevin family coat of arms. As a result, in the 15th century, the mixed-house rulers mostly also included it in their own family coats of arms.

The unification of the Hungarian and Angevin coats of arms does not originate from King Charles I. It had already happened before, as we can cite several examples of. The relationship of the Hungarian and Angevin royal houses, i.e., through the daughter of the Hungarian king Stephen V, Mary, who came to Naples in 1270 as the wife of Charles, the heir to the Neapolitan throne, and in 1285 she was elevated to the Neapolitan throne with her husband and was Queen of Naples until her husband’s death in 1309. He did not leave Naples during his widowhood, but lived there until his death in 1323. Queen Mary of Naples already used the Hungarian Angevin coat of arms, as evidenced by the Hungarian Angevin coats of arms of the church built for the Poor Clares in Naples.

King Charles I of Hungary

(commonly known as: Károly Róbert, birth name: Caroberto, in Hungarian earlier: Róbert Károly; Naples, 1288 – Visegrád, 16 July 1342) King of Hungary from the House of Anjou from 1308 until his death. Although crowned from 1301, he was only recognized as a ruler by the “Anjou party”. His grandmother, Mary of Árpád, was Queen of Naples. He ruled validly (crowned for the third time) between 1310 and 1342. Historiography considers 1308, the year of the Diet that validly elected him king, as the beginning of his reign. He was the founder of the Hungarian branch of the House of Anjou, the firstborn child of Charles Martel of Anjou and Clement of Habsburg, and the great-grandson of King Stephen V of Hungary. According to the Pictorial Chronicle, at his birth “he was first called Carobertó at home, that is, Charles Robert, but in Hungary, abandoning Robert, the Hungarians called him Charles.”

With his Western and Northern policies, he sought to establish a system of alliances that would counterbalance the great power position of the Holy Roman Empire and also put Hungary in a more favorable economic position. By establishing the honor system, he implemented financial reforms based on the regalia – income earned by royal right – which significantly increased the revenues of the treasury. The second half of his reign saw significant Gothic construction, including the construction of the Visegrád Royal Palace, the chapter house of the Franciscan Monastery in Sopron, the reconstruction of the Diósgyőr Castle, and the addition of Gothic wings to the Coronation Basilica in Székesfehérvár. Thanks to his energetic policies, he was able to leave a strong kingdom to his son, Louis, upon his death in 1342.

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