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 the century-old
Capetian House of Anjou, ended with her daughter. In February 1369, Margaret married her paternal first cousin
Charles of Durazzo. He was a son of
Louis of Durazzo, another son of
John, Duke of Durazzo, and his second wife
Agnes de Périgord. The bride was twenty-two years old and the groom twenty-four.
Queen Charles managed to depose her maternal aunt Queen
Joanna I of Naples in 1382. He succeeded her and Margaret became his queen consort. Charles succeeded
James of Baux as
Prince of Achaea in 1383 with Margaret still as his consort. By then becoming the senior
Angevin male, Charles was offered the Crown of Hungary. Margaret did not support the idea of deposing Queen
Mary of Hungary and discouraged her husband from doing so. Nonetheless, he successfully deposed Mary in December 1385 and had himself crowned. She was the daughter of his deceased cousin
Louis I of Hungary and
Elizabeth of Bosnia. However, Mary's formidable mother Elizabeth arranged his assassination at
Visegrád on 24 February 1386.
Pope Boniface IX and Margarethe came to a peace agreement, her excommunication was lifted and with the help of Cardinal
Angelo Acciaioli Margaret could continue to serve as regent until July 1393.
Later life 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. 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. ==Issue==