Eleanor of Anjou

Eleanor of Anjou (August, 1289 - 9 August, 1341) was the Queen consort of Frederick III of Sicily.

Family

She was the third daughter of Charles II of Naples and Maria Arpad of Hungary.

Her paternal grandparents were Charles I of Sicily and Beatrice of Provence. Her maternal grandparents were Stephen V of Hungary (d. 1272) and his wife, queen Elisabeth, who was daughter of Zayhan of Kuni, a chief of the Cuman tribe and had been a pagan before her marriage.

Marriage

On 17 May, 1302, Eleanor married Frederick III of Sicily. Her father and her new husband had been engaged in a war for ascendancy in the Mediterranean Sea and especially Sicily and the Mezzogiorno. The marriage was part of a diplomatic effort to establish peaceful relations which would lead to the Peace of Caltabellotta (19 August, 1302).

The peace divided the old Kingdom of Sicily into an island portion and a peninsular portion. The island, called the Kingdom of Trinacria, went to Frederick, who had been ruling it, and the Mezzogiorno, called the Kingdom of Sicily contemporaneously, but called the Kingdom of Naples by modern scholarship, went to Charles II, who had been ruling it. Thus, the peace was formal recognition of an uneasy "status quo".

Eleanor and Frederich had nine children:
*Peter II of Sicily (1304 – 1342), successor
*Roger (born 1305), died young
*Manfred, Duke of Athens and Neopatria (1306 – 1317), Duke of Athens and Neopatria
*Constance, married on December 29, 1331 to Leo IV of Armenia
*Elisabeth,(1310 – 1349), married (1328) Stephen II of Bavaria
*William, Prince of Taranto (1312 – 1338), Prince of Taranto, Duke of Athens and Neopatria
*Giovanni di Randazzo (1317 – 1348), Duke of Randazzo, Duke of Athens and Neopatria, Regent of Sicily (from 1338)
*Catherine (1320 – 1342)
*Margaret (1331 – 1360), married (1348) Rudolf II of the Palatainate

Ancestry

Ancestors of Eleanor of Anjou

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1= 1. Eleanor of Anjou
2= 2. Charles II of Naples
3= 3. Maria of Hungary
4= 4. Charles I of Naples
5= 5. Beatrice of Provence
6= 6. Stephen V of Hungary
7= 7. Elizabeth the Cuman
8= 8. Louis VIII of France
9= 9. Blanche of Castile
10= 10. Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence
11= 11. Beatrice of Savoy
12= 12. Béla IV of Hungary
13= 13. Maria Laskarina
14= 14. Kuthen, Khan of Cumania
15= 15. Mstislawna of Galicia
16= 16. Philip II of France
17= 17. Isabelle of Hainaut
18= 18. Alfonso VIII of Castile
19= 19. Leonora of England
20= 20. Alfonso II, Count of Provence
21= 21. Gersenda II of Sabran
22= 22. Thomas I of Savoy
23= 23. Marguerite of Geneva
24= 24. Andrew II of Hungary
25= 25. Gertrude of Merania
26= 26. Theodore I Laskaris
27= 27. Anna Angelina
28= 28. Suthoi, Khan of Cumania

External links

* [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SICILY.htm#FederigoIdied1337B Her profile, along with her husband, in "Medieval lands" by Charles Cawley]