Blanche of Anjou

Blanche of Anjou (1280 – October 14, 1310 in Barcelona) was the second Queen consort of James II of Aragon.

Family

She was the second 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.

She was buried at Santa Croce.

Marriage

On 29 October or 1 November, 1295 at Villabertran, Blanche married James II of Aragon. They had ten children:

*James (Jaume) (b. 29 September, 1296 - d. Tarragona, July 1334). James renounced his right to the throne in 1319 to become a monk. He refused to consummate his marriage to Leonor of Castille, who later become the second wife of his brother Alfonso.

*Alfonso IV of Aragon (1299 – 24 January 1336). He became the King of Aragon in 1327 and ruled until his death. He married twice: first to Teresa d'Entença and then to Eleanor of Castile after his first wife died.

*Maria (b. 1299 - d. as a nun in Sijena, 1316). She married Pedro of Castile, son of Sancho IV of Castile.

*Constance (Constança) (b. Valencia, 1 April, 1300 - d. Castillo de Garcia Munoz, 19 September, 1327). Constance married Juan Manuel, Duke of Penafiel, nephew of Alfonso X of Castile.

*John (Juan) (b. 1304 - d. Pobo, Zaragoza, 19 August 1334). John became the first Archbishop of Toledo and Tarragona in 1318, and Patriarch of Alexandria in 1328.

*Isabel of Aragon (b. 1305 - d. Styria, 12 July 1330). Elizabeth married Frederick I of Austria.

*Peter (Pere) (b. 1305 - d. Pisa, 4 November 1381), Count of Ribagorça and Prades. Peter married Jeanne, daughter of Gaston I of Foix.

*Blanca (b. 1307 - d. Barcelona, 1348), Prioress of Sixena.

*Ramon Berenguer (b. August 1308 - d. a priest at Barcelona, 1366), Count of Empúries and Baron of Ejerica.. Ramon married firstly with Blanca, daughter of Philip I of Taranto, and secondly with Maria, daughter of Jaime of Aragon.

*Violante (b. Barcelona, October 1310 - d. Pedrola, 19 July 1353). She first married Philip, Despot of Romania, son of Philip I of Taranto. Her second marriage was with Lope de Luna, Lord of Segorbe.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Blanche of Anjou

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1= 1. Blanche 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

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ources

* [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%B3nica_de_San_Juan_de_la_Pe%C3%B1a Crónica de San Juan de la Peña]

External links

* [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ARAGON%20&%20CATALONIA.htm#_Toc173983002 Her profile, along with her husband, in "Medieval lands" by Charles Cawley]