Gertrude of Merania, the queen consort of Hungary as the first wife of King Andrew II, was assassinated by a group of Hungarian lords on 28 September 1213 in the Pilis Mountains during a royal hunting expedition. Leopold VI, Duke of Austria and Gertrude's brother Berthold, Archbishop of Kalocsa were also wounded but survived the attack.
Contemporary depiction of Queen Gertrude and King Andrew II, Landgrafenpsalter, Thuringia, c. 1213
Andrew II depicted in Illuminated Chronicle
Queen Gertrude of Merania, as depicted in mid-14th century Hedwig Codex
Coloman of Galicia
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Coloman of Halych was the ruler—from 1214 prince, and from 1215 or 1216 to 1221 king—of Halych, and duke of Slavonia from 1226 to his death. He was the second son of Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania. His father and Leszek the White, Duke of Poland, concluded an agreement about the marriage of Coloman and Leszek's daughter, Salomea, and the division of Halych, allotting its western regions to Leszek, the remaining lands to Coloman. The Hungarian and Polish armies occupied the principality in late 1214. Andrew II appointed a Hungarian nobleman, Benedict the Bald, to administer it on Coloman's behalf. Coloman was crowned the first king of Halych with the pope's authorization in early 1216.
The Principality of Halych and its neighbors