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Constance of Aragon, Queen of Sicily

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Constance of Aragon (Catalan: Constança d'Aragó; 1343 – 2/18 July 1363), was the first Queen consort of Frederick III the Simple. She was an infanta of Aragon, the eldest child of Peter IV of Aragon[1] and his first wife Maria of Navarre.[2] Her father unsuccessfully proposed her as heir to the throne in early 1347, in the absence of a male heir.

Constance of Aragon
Infanta of Aragon
Queen Consort of Sicily
Reign11 April 1361 – 18 July 1363
Born1343
Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Poblet, Kingdom of Aragon
Died18 July 1363(1363-07-18) (aged 19–20)
Catania, Kingdom of Sicily
Burial
Cathedral of St Agatha, Catania, Kingdom of Sicily
SpouseFederico III of Sicily
(m. 1361 – 1363)
IssueMaria I of Sicily
HouseBarcelona
FatherPedro IV of Aragon
MotherMaria of Navarre

On 8 February 1351 at Perpignan, a betrothal between Constance and Louis I of Anjou, son of King John II of France, was performed. However, the marriage never took place.

On 11 April 1361 at Catania, Constance married King Frederick III of Sicily.[1] They had one daughter, Maria (2 July 1363 - 25 March 1401),[1] who succeeded her father as reigning Queen of Sicily[3] in 1377[4] and married Martin of Aragon.

In 1363 Constance died in Catania, Sicily, either from the plague,[1] or following childbirth complications. She is buried in the Cathedral of Catania.

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  1. ^ a b c d Archbishop Pierre d'Ameil in Naples and the Affair of Aimon III of Geneva (1363-1364), Kenneth M. Setton, Speculum, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Oct., 1953), 645.
  2. ^ Backman, Clifford R. (2022), Sohmer Tai, Emily; Reyerson, Kathryn L. (eds.), "Neocastro's Epic History", Mapping Pre-Modern Sicily: Maritime Violence, Cultural Exchange, and Imagination in the Mediterranean, 800-1700, Mediterranean Perspectives, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 193–206, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-04915-6_11, ISBN 978-3-031-04915-6, retrieved 2023-03-02
  3. ^ De Lucca, Denis (2017). "A Byzantine relic in a Baroque palace : the church of Our Saviour in the Bonajuto Palace in Catania". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ Rohr, Zita (2013), Woodacre, Elena (ed.), "Not Lost in Translation: Aragonese Court Culture on Tour (1400–1480)", Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras, New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 145–168, doi:10.1057/9781137362834_8, ISBN 978-1-137-36283-4, retrieved 2023-03-02
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