Maria, Queen of Denmark

## Maria of Hungary

Queen Consort of Denmark

Margaret the Red

**Maria the Terrible** Known as **Maria den forfærdelige** (C. 1144 - 1172) was Queen Consort of Denmark as the first wife of Olaf VIII of Denmark. She was also a Hungarian Princess as the daughter of Ladislaus II of Hungary and Blanche of France. Maria was a very unpopular Queen, she was very haughty and very cruel amoungst the people of Denmark, earning her the name "Maria the Terrible." She held executions of innocent people, and she was nutorious for child-murder, she once murdered her husband's illegitimate child by cutting him into pieces. In 1172 when Maria was 27, the nobles had enough of the Queen, and indeed her husband as well hated his Queen, so they had her executed by stabbing in the throat, she was arrested the night before, her ladies-in-waiting were publicly murdered, and she was privately executed by being held by ropes, and being whipped, and then finally stabbed in the throat, her husband remarried a Swedish noble.

## Early Life

### Childhood

Maria was born in 1144 in the Kingdom of Bohemia, to Ladislaus II of Hungary and Blanche of France. Maria was educated in Hungarian, Bulgarian, and Greek. Maria was a very Haughty Princess, she was also clearing a psychopath based on her behavior. She was the sister of Judith of Hungary, Geza, and Andrew of Hungary. Maria's mother always doubted her, and thought she was to weak to fight in various mideval wars like the Crusades, so instead she betrothed her to the 19 year old Danish King, who had a reputation for womanizing.

### Betrothal and Marriage

Maria hated her new husband's womanizing even though she was only 11. When Maria arrived, she was at first very popular, and many woman dressed up like her to please her. But Maria showed how fury of a woman she could be fast, Maria controlled her husband to make unpopular moves, she had her husband's mistresses boiled alive in a pot. Maria quickly became the real power behind the Danish throne, they were married 5 days after they met in person, the nobles at first welcomed her with delight, but she quickly started making herself unpopular.

## Tenure and unpopularity

### Early Tenure

When Maria was crowned, the Danes cheered her coronation, but Maria raised taxes on them to build more castles. When she was pregnant with her first child, she gave birth to a girl Ingrid, the Danes hoped for a son, but they still cheered to applease there Queen. But Maria publicly executed a popular warrior, because he tried to help Maria to make the right choice in the conquest of Finland, the people revolted calling an end to this Evil Queen, and they nicknamed her "Maria the Terrible" for her lack of jugement. Her mother concerned sent a Hungarian army to crush the rebellion. Maria was not done yet, she hosted an execution of an innocent man, because he did not bow before a statue of her, the people egarly tried to save in innocent man, but he was burned in front of the Danes. The King who was under the control of his 14 year old wife was to weak to stop her. Maria gave birth to a son the following year, her approval ratings did not go up, instead she commited another scandal by boiling nuns because of there iggnorance to worship her as well.

### Mid Tenure

Maria was still a very Haughty Queen, she murdered her sister-in-law, Agnes of Denmark because, she was beautifuler then herself. She then created a long 60 paged script informing the nobles can keep there titles, but Maria was the only one who was allowed to tax the people and control land, making them figure heads. The Danish nobles were furious, they worked long to maintain there lands, only to be out-taken by there Haughty Queen. Maria gave birth a last time when she was 18, to Margaret the Red, who was nicknamed "The Red" for her mad addiction to murdering people.

## Execution

During her later tenure as Queen, her husband and many nobles started plotting against the Queen, Maria wen't into a Frenzy trying to murder everyone who was against her, but she had a hard time convicting them of Murder. The King led a siege along with many nobles and Danes against the Queen, Maria fled to Jutland, where the nobles arrested her and put her on trial. Unsurprisingly, she was found guilty of Treason, she was sentenced to death by tourture privately. The next day, her hands tied-to ropes on a gallow, and the executioner whipped her with a rope, she screamed in agony as the nobles watched in pleasure, she was then cut in the legs and hands, and then finally the executioner cut her throat open and she died 6 seconds later. She was buried in Doberan abbey and her husband remarried a second time to a different woman.