Constance of Hungary
Queen Constance on atympanum in theCistercian abbey Porta Coeli
Queen consort of Bohemia
Tenure	1199–1230
Born	c. 1180 Hungary
Died	6 December 1240 (aged c. 60) Tišnov,Moravia
Burial	Cloister Porta coeli
Spouse	Ottokar I of Bohemia ​ ​ (m. 1199; died 1230)​
Issue	Wenceslaus I of Bohemia Anna of Bohemia Saint Agnes of Bohemia
House	Árpád
Father	Béla III of Hungary
Mother	Agnes of Antioch

Constance of Hungary (in Hungarian,Konstancia; in Czech,Konstancie; c. 1180 – 6 December 1240) was the secondQueen consort ofOttokar I of Bohemia.

Constance was a daughter ofBéla III of Hungary^[1] and his first wifeAgnes of Antioch.^[2] Her older siblings includedEmeric, King of Hungary,Margaret of Hungary andAndrew II of Hungary.

In 1199, Ottokar I divorced his first wife,Adelaide of Meissen, on grounds ofconsanguinity. He married Constance later in the same year.^[1] Together with Ottokar, she had nine children.^[1]

Queen Constance is regularly noted as a co-donator with her husband in various documents of his reign. Her petitions to her husband for variousdonations are also recorded. She is considered to have sold the cityBoleráz to her nephewBéla IV of Hungary. In 1247, Béla conferred said city to the nuns ofTrnava. An epistle by which Constance supposedly grants freedom to the cities ofBřeclav andOlomouc is considered a false document. The same epistle grants lands inOstrovany to the monastery of St. Stephen of Hradište. Another epistle has the queen settling "honorable Teutonic men" (viros honestos Theutunicos) in the city ofHodonín and is also considered aforgery.^[3] In 1230, Ottokar I died and their son Wenceslaus succeeded him. Constance survived her husband by a decade.

In 1231,Pope Gregory IX set Queen Constance and herdower possessions under the protection of theHoly See. His letter to Constance clarifies said possessions to include the provinces ofBřeclav (Brecyzlaviensem), Pribyslavice (Pribizlavensem), Dolni Kunice (Conowizensem), Godens (Godeninensem),Bzenec (Bisenzensem) andBudějovice (Budegewizensem).^[4] In 1232, Constance foundedCloister Porta Coeli nearTišnov and retired to it as a nun. She died within the Cloister.

• Vratislav (c. 1200 – before 1209)
• Judith (c. 1202 – 2 June 1230), who marriedBernhard von Spanheim,Duke of Carinthia
• Anna (c. 1204 – 23 June 1265), who marriedHenry II the Pious,Duke of Wrocław
• Agnes, thought to have died young
• Wenceslaus I of Bohemia (c. 1205 – 23 September 1253)
• Vladislaus,Margrave of Moravia (1207 – 10 February 1228)
• Přemysl, Margrave of Moravia (1209 – 16 October 1239), who married Margaret, daughter ofOtto I, Duke of Merania, andBeatrice II, Countess of Burgundy
• Agnes (20 January 1211 – 6 March 1282),Mother Superior of theFranciscanPoor Clares nuns ofPrague

The Milanese mysticGuglielma (1210s – 24 October 1281) claimed to be a Princess of Bohemia^[5] and has therefore been identified as a daughter of Ottokar and Constance with the name Vilemína or Božena, but there is an absence of any corroborating Bohemian documents.

• Earenfight, Theresa (2013).Queenship in Medieval Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.ISBN 978-1137303929.
• Mielke, Christopher (2021).The Archaeology and Material Culture of Queenship in Medieval Hungary, 1000–1395. Springer International Publishing.ISBN 9783030665111.

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• Women's Biography: Constance of Hungary, contains several letters sent and received by Constance.

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