- Eleanor of Anjou
Eleanor of Anjou (August,
1289 -9 August ,1341 ) was theQueen consort ofFrederick III of Sicily .Family
She was the third daughter of
Charles II of Naples andMaria Arpad of Hungary .Her paternal grandparents were
Charles I of Sicily andBeatrice of Provence . Her maternal grandparents wereStephen V of Hungary (d. 1272) and his wife, queen Elisabeth, who was daughter ofZayhan of Kuni , a chief of theCuman tribe and had been a pagan before her marriage.Marriage
On
17 May ,1302 , Eleanor marriedFrederick III of Sicily . Her father and her new husband had been engaged in a war for ascendancy in theMediterranean Sea and especiallySicily and theMezzogiorno . The marriage was part of a diplomatic effort to establish peaceful relations which would lead to thePeace 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 ofTrinacria , 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 andNeopatria
*Constance, married on December 29, 1331 toLeo IV of Armenia
*Elisabeth,(1310 – 1349), married (1328)Stephen II of Bavaria
*William, Prince of Taranto (1312 – 1338),Prince of Taranto ,Duke of Athens andNeopatria
*Giovanni di Randazzo (1317 – 1348), Duke ofRandazzo ,Duke of Athens andNeopatria , Regent of Sicily (from 1338)
*Catherine (1320 – 1342)
*Margaret (1331 – 1360), married (1348)Rudolf II of the Palatainate Ancestry
Ancestors of Eleanor of AnjouExternal links
* [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SICILY.htm#FederigoIdied1337B Her profile, along with her husband, in "Medieval lands" by Charles Cawley]
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