Margaret of Durazzo was Queen of Naples and Hungary and Princess of Achaea as the spouse of Charles III of Naples, and later regent of Naples during the minority of her son.
Background
She was the fourth daughter of Charles, Duke of Durazzo (1323–1348) and Maria of Calabria, but the only one to have children. Her legitimate line of descent, as well as a century-old Capetian House of Anjou, ended with her daughter. He was a son of Louis of Durazzo, another son of John, Duke of Durazzo and his second wife Agnes de Périgord.
Career
Their son Ladislaus succeeded to the throne of the Kingdom of Naples while Mary of Hungary was restored to her throne. Margaret insisted that her husband"s death be revenged and Elizabeth was murdered. The heads of her defenders were sent to console Margaret.
In the last years of her life, the queen dowager retired first to Salerno and then to Acquamela, where she died of plague in 1412.
Membership
She had become a devout Catholic and a member of a Franciscan Third Order in her last years and requested to be buried as such. She was buried in white habit in Salerno Cathedral.