Marriage and Children
In about 1253, he married Elizabeth (1240 – after 1290), daughter of a chieftain of the Cuman tribes, they settled in Hungary and had the following children:
- Elizabeth (1255–1313/1326), wife firstly of Záviš of Falkenštejn and secondly of King Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia
- Catherine (1255/1257 – after 1314), wife of King Stefan Dragutin of Serbia
- Maria (c. 1257 – 25 March 1325), wife of King Charles II of Naples
- Anna (c. 1260 – c. 1281), wife of the Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos
- King Ladislaus IV (August 1262 – 10 July 1290)
- Andrew, Duke of Slavonia (1268–1278)
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