Constance of Aragon, Queen of Sicily

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.

For other people named Constance of Aragon, see Constance of Aragon (disambiguation).
Aragonese royalty
House of Barcelona
Alfonso II
Children include
Peter (King of Aragon; Count of Barcelona)
Constance (Holy Roman Empress; Queen consort of Hungary, Germany and Sicily)
Alfonso (Count of Provence)
Eleanor (Countess consort of Toulouse)
Sancha (Countess consort of Toulouse)
Peter II
Children include
James (King of Aragon, Valencia and Majorca;
Count of Barcelona)
James I
Children include
Violant (Queen consort of Castile and Leon)
Constance (Lady consort of Villena)
Peter (King of Aragon, Valencia and Sicily;
Count of Barcelona)
James (King of Majorca)
Isabella (Queen consort of France)
Sancho (Archbishop of Toledo)
Peter III
Children include
Alfonso (King of Aragon and Valencia)
James (King of Sicily, Aragon, Valencia, Sardinia and Corsica; Count of Barcelona)
Elizabeth (Queen consort of Portugal)
Frederick (King of Sicily)
Alfonso III
James II
Children include
James (monk)
Alfonso (King of Aragon, Valencia, Sardinia and Corsica; Count of Barcelona)
Maria (Lady of Cameros)
John (Archbishop of Toledo and Tarragona;
Latin Patriarch of Alexandria)
Isabella (Queen consort of Germany)
Alfonso IV
Children include
Constance (Queen consort of Majorca)
Peter (King of Aragon, Valencia and Majorca;
Count of Barcelona)
James (Count of Urgell)
Peter IV
Children include
Constance (Queen consort of Sicily)
Joanna (Countess consort of Ampurias)
John (King of Aragon, Valencia and Majorca; Count of Barcelona; Duke of Athens and Neopatria)
Martin (King of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica; Count of Barcelona;
Duke of Montblanc)
Eleanor (Queen consort of Castile and Leon)
Isabella (Countess consort of Urgell)
John I
Children include
Joanna (Countess consort of Foix)
Yolande (Queen consort of Naples; Duchess consort of Anjou; Countess consort of Provence, Maine and Piedmont)
Martin
Children include
Martin (King of Sicily; Count of Luna; Lord of Segorbe)

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.

Ancestors
James II of Aragon
Alfonso IV of Aragon
Blanche of Anjou
Peter IV of Aragon
Gombaldo, Baron of Enteça
Teresa d'Entença
Constanza de Antillòn
Constance of Aragon
Louis, Count of Évreux
Philip III of Navarre
Margaret of Artois
Maria of Navarre
Louis X of France
Joan II of Navarre
Margaret of Burgundy

References
  1. 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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