ELISABETTA D'UNGHERIA. – Dominican, daughter of Andrea III, king of Hungary (d. 1301), and of his first consort, Fenenna of Poland (d. 1295), born in Budapest around 1295, died at Töss near Winterthur (Switzerland) on 6 May 1337. While still a child she was betrothed to Venceslao, son of the king of Bohemia, who, proclaimed king of Hungary in 1301 at barely twelve years of age under the name of Ladislao, renounced that kingdom and his betrothed E. in 1305.
At the wish of her stepmother, Agnese of Austria, she was then supposed to marry Arrigo of Austria (her stepmother’s brother), but the pious princess preferred the monastic veil and from 1309 until her death lived devoutly in the famous Dominican monastery of Töss, surrounded by the veneration of her fellow sisters, who admired her great conformity to the will of God and her other outstanding virtues. She was buried in the monastery church. Her cult has not yet been approved.