page_title: Helena of Serbia, Queen of Hungary
section_title: Queen consort
hierarchical_section_title: Helena of Serbia, Queen of Hungary / Life / Queen consort
caption_attribution_description: Rackeve, Hungary: Serbian Orthodox Church, 1487 April 2005 Olaf A. Koch own picture
context_page_description: Helena of Serbia was Queen of Hungary as the wife of King Béla II. After her husband's death, she governed Hungary as regent from 1141 to September 1146 together with her brother, Beloš, during the minority of her eldest son, Géza II, came of age.
  A daughter of Prince Uroš I of Serbia, she was arranged to marry Béla II in 1129 by his cousin, King Stephen II. Her younger sons, Ladislaus II and Stephen IV, also ruled as kings of Hungary. She had two other brothers Uroš II and Desa besides Beloš.
context_section_description: Following the childless king's death, her husband was crowned King of Hungary on 28 April 1131. Queen Helena had great influence on her husband, and the Hungarian state. They had six children: Geza, Ladislaus II, Stephen IV, Álmos, Sophia and Gertrud. She was to great help to her husband and governed the state during his rule. She was loyal to her husband and state, and it was she who persuaded the nobles at an assembly in Arad to execute 68 Hungarian aristocrats who had plotted with King Coloman to blind her husband. According to contemporary sources she was attending the execution with her son Bela, in order to secure the death of her husband's enemies.
  She settled Serbs in Csepel Island, and Ráckeve, where she built a monastery and church which exist still today.
caption: Serbian Kovin Monastery was founded by Helena
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