Queens of Aragon

[Prince_Lieven]

Ok, here's a list as far as I know . . .

#Gisberga de Bigorre, wife of Ramiro I
#Felicia of Rameru, wife of Sancho I (d. 1086)
#Agnes of Aquitaine, wife of Peter I (d. after 1110)
#Urraca, Queen of Castile, wife of Alfonso I (1082-1126)
#Agnes of Aquitaine, wife of Ramiro II
#Petronella, Queen regnant of Aragon (1135-1173)
#Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II (1154-1208)
#Marie of Montpellier, wife of Peter II (d. 1219)
#Eleanor of Castile, first wife of James I. They were divorced in 1229.
#Yolante of Hungary, second wife of James I (d. 1251)
#Constanza of Sicily, wife of Peter III (d. 1302)
#Blanche of Naples, first wife of James II (d. 1310)
#Marie of Cyprus, second wife of James II (d. 1321)
#Elisenda of Moncada, third wife of James II. I don't know if this marriage was morganatic or not.
#Theresa of Urgel, first wife of Alfonso IV (d. 1327)
#Eleanor of Castile, second wife of Alfonso IV (1307-murdered 1359)
#Maria of Navarre, first wife of Peter IV (d. 1347)
#Eleanor of Portugal, second wife of Peter IV (1328-1348)
#Eleanor of Sicily third wife of Peter IV (d. 1374)
#Sybil de Tortia, fourth wife of Peter IV. Another morganatic match?
#Yolante of Bar, wife of John I (d. 1431)
#Maria de Luna, first wife of Martin I (d. 1406)
#Maria de Prades, second wife of Martin I.
#Eleanor of Albequerque, wife of Ferdinand I (1374-1435)
#Maria of Castile, wife of Alfonso V (1401-1458)
#Johanna Henriquez, wife of John II (1425-1468)
#Isabella, Queen of Castile, wife of Ferdinand II (1451-1504).

From here the Crowns of Castile and Aragon were united.

Please contribute! More info welcome! Cimbrio, Umigon, I'm looking at you!  

[umigon]

Ok, here I am, just returned from a wild night! ;D


Here is my list, just to add some missing ladies, but yours was great, Prince!


·      Gisberga Hermesinda of Foix-Bigorre (1020-1054), first wife of Ramiro I, married in 1036, mother of Sancho I.
·      Inés of Aquitaine (1052-1097), second wife of Ramiro I, married in 1054.
·      Isabel of Urgel (1050-1071), first wife of Sancho I, married in 1065, mother of Pedro I.
·      Felicia of Roucy (1060-1123), second wife of Sancho I, married in 1071, mother of Alfonso I and Ramiro II.
·      Inés of Aquitaine (1071-1097), first wife of Pedro I, married in 1086.
·      Berta of Italy (1087-1104), second wife of Pedro I, married in 1097.
·      Urraca I of Castile (1082-1126), wife of Alfonso I, married in 1109, marriage annulled in 1114.
·      Inés of Aquitaine (1117-1157), wife of Ramiro II, married in 1135, mother of Petronila I.
·      Petronila I of Aragon (1135-1174), queen regnant from 1137 to 1164, mother of Alfonso II.
·      Mafalda of Portugal (1149-1173), first wife of Alfonso II, married in 1160.
·      Sancha of Castile (1154-1208), second wife of Alfonso II, married in 1174, mother of Pedro II.
·      María of Montpellier (1175-1213), wife of Pedro II, married in 1204, mother of Jaime I.
·      Leonor of Castile (1202-1244), first wife of Jaime I, married in 1221, marriage annulled in 1229.
·      Violante Árpad of Hungary (1215-1251), second wife of Jaime I, married in 1235, mother of Pedro III of Aragon and Jaime II of Majorca.
·      Teresa de Vidaure (1232-1300), tirad wife of Jaime I, married secretly in 1252. He later stated he had married her and entitled her as queen, but without an official ceremony.
·      Constanza Hohenstaufen of Sicily (1249-1302), wife of Pedro III, married in 1261, mother of Alfonso III and Jaime II.
·      Eleanor Plantagenet (1264-1297), wife of Alfonso III, married in 1290. I think the marriage was by proxy and the couple never got to reach each other, but still Eleanor was considered queen of Aragon after her marriage and then received a pension as Queen Dowager until she married Henri of Bar.
·      Isabel of Castile (1283-1328), first wife of Jaime II, married in 1291, annulled in 1295. Not consummated.
·      Blanca of Naples (1280-1310), second wife of Jaime II, married in 1295, mother of Alfonso IV.
·      María Lusignan of Cyprus (1273-1322), third wife of Jaime II, married in 1315.
·      Elisenda of Moncada (1304-1364), fourth wife of Jaime II, married in 1322. She was not a morganatic spouse and she was styled as ‘Queen Elisenda’.
·      Teresa of Entenza/Urgel (1300-1327), first wife of Alfonso IV, married in 1314, mother of Pedro IV.
·      Leonor of Castile (1307-1359), second wife of Alfonso IV, married in 1329.
·      María Évreux of Navarre (1330-1347), first wife of Pedro IV, Married in 1338.
·      Leonor of Portugal (1328-1348), second wife of Pedro IV, married in 1347.
·      Leonor of Sicily (1336-1375), third wife of Pedro IV, married in 1349, mother of Juan I and Martín I and grandmother of Fernando I (by her daughter Leonor).
·      Sibila of Fortia (1360-1406), fourth wife of Pedro IV, married in 1377. Although she had been Pedro’s lover and mother of two bastard sons before their marriage, she wasn’t a morganatic wife and was styled ‘Queen Sibila’.
·      Blanca of Valois (1351-1371), first wife of Juan I, married in 1371. She died on her way to Aragon and never met her husband. Not a queen, as she died before her father-in-law Pedro IV.
·      María of Armagnac (1359-1378), second wife of Juan I, married in 1373. She also died before Pedro IV, so she was never queen.
·      Violante of Bar (1365-1438), third wife of Juan I, married in 1380.
·      María de Luna (1358-1406), first wife of Martín I, married in 1372.
·      Margarita of Aragón/Prades (1386-1422), second wife of Martín I, married in 1409.
·      Leonor Urraca of Castile/Alburquerque (1374-1435), wife of Fernando I, married in 1393, mother of Alfonso V and Juan II.
·      María of Castile (1401-1458), wife of Alfonso V, married in 1415.
·      Juana Enríquez de Castilla (1428-1468), second wife of Juan II, married in 1444, mother of Fernando II. Juan’s first wife had been Queen Blanca II or I of Navarre, by whom he had Leonor I of Navarre.
·       Isabel I of Castile (1451-1504), first wife of Fernando II, married in 1469, mother of Juana I.
·      Germana of Foix (1488-1536), second wife of Fernando II, married in 1505.
·      Juana I of Aragon and Castile (1479-1555), united both Crowns, formation of Spain.

[Prince_Lieven]

Thanks Umigon.   Very concise.

[aron]

Both Alfonso VI, king of Castille and Pedro I, king of Aragon had a wife from 'Italy': Pedro had Bertha (married about 1097) and Alfonso VI had Beatrice (married about 1108).
Both men had another thing in common: they were both married to two (half)sisters with the same name Agnes of Aquitaine, both daughters of Guillaume VIII, duke of Aquitaine. The first Agnes (abt 1072-1097) and was married to Pedro I. The second Agnes (1059- after 1111) was married/divorced to Alfonso VI.
A daughter of Guillaume V of Aquitaine, by his wife Agnes of Burgundy, was named Beatrice. Agnes of Aguitaine, the widow of Ramiro I of Aragon,
remarried to Pietro of Savoy. Is this possible that both Berta (a sister of Pietro was named so) and Beatrice (named after a cousin of Agnes) were daughters of this couple?

[aron]

By the way, there are some theories about these two women:
1. they (or one of them) belonged to the house of Burgundy
2. they (or one of them) belonged to the house of Aquitaine
3. they (or one of them) belonged to the house of Este

These theories are just wild guessing.

[Bernardino]

Hello  

Can anyone explain me why the children of King Juan I of Aragon (d.1395) were excluded from the succession of their uncle King Martin I in 1409?

[Eurohistory]

Juan I married twice.  From his first wife he had a daughter, while with his second wife he had two sons who died young and another daughter.  When he died in 1395 (another source lists his death as taking place in 1396) the remaining male in the family was his brother Martín, who succeeded and ruled until his own death in 1410.

Martin of Aragón was the father of King Martin of Sicily, who had married Maria, only daughter of King Fadrique of Sicily.  In 1409 Martin of Sicily died after contracting an illness during a battle in San Luri, Italy, leaving no legitimate heirs. King Martin of Aragón, in an effort to replenish the baby-less royal nursery, remarried but failed to produce an heir.  He even tried to get his son Martin's bastard, Fadrique, recognized as King of Aragón, but that effort also failed.

Death surprised Martín I of Aragón on  31 May 1410.  No male heirs were left after him and the crown of Aragón lay vacant for two years until Ferdinand of Castile took the crown in 1412, only to be succeeded by his son Alfonso V in 1416, who ruled until 1458 and was in turn succeeded  by his brother King Juan II. This last monarch was the father of famed King Ferdinand II, the Catholic.

Arturo Beéche