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:''There was also a Hungarian prince and saint named Emeric of Hungary (died 1031).''
'Emeric' (Hungarian: ''Imre'', Croatian: ''Mirko, Emerik''; 1174 – 30 November 1204) was the King of Hungary and Croatia from 1196 to his death. He was the son and heir of Béla III by his queen Agnes, daughter of Raynald of Châtillon.
The city of Zara in Dalmatia, which had formerly been under the Republic of Venice, but which recognised Emeric as protector in 1201, became the first object of the Fourth Crusade. The Crusaders, on behalf of the Venetians, took the city, despite the prohibition of Pope Innocent III, for Emeric was a Catholic.
Emeric was betrothed firstly to Agnes, the daughter of Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, but her premature death in 1184 prevented their marriage. Instead Emeric married Constance, daughter of Alfonso II of Aragon and Sancha of Castile. Their only child, Ladislaus, was born in 1201 and crowned as co-king in 1204. When Emeric died later that year (and was buried in Eger), his infant son briefly became king but died in 1205. Emeric's brother Andrew became king. Constance, meanwhile, fled to Vienna and eventually married the Emperor Frederick II.