A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Anna of Hungary
ANNA OF HUNGARY,
Was the daughter of Ladislaus the Second, king of Hungary, and Bohemia; she was born on the 25th. of July, 1503, and married in 1521, to Ferdinand of Austria, brother of Charles the Fifth, and afterwards his successor in 1558, as emperor of Germany. The death of Lujos, or Louis the Second, son and successor to Ladislaus, on the battle field of Mohacs, in 1526, transferred to Anna's husband the crowns of Hungary and Bohemia. His claims to the former were resisted by Zapolya, with whom he eventually agreed to share the kingdoms. Anna died at Prague in, childbirth, on the 27th. of January, 1547, when she was forty-four years of age. She was the mother of three sons and eleven daughters, and chiefly remarkable for her humility. It is recorded in her funeral sermon, preached by Nausea, that she was accustomed to wear mean and old apparel more like that of a servant than a queen.