Agnes of Aquitaine, wife of Ramiro II of Aragon
Agnes | |
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Queen consort of Aragon | |
Tenure | 1135– 1137 |
Died | c. 1159 |
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Poitiers | |
Father | William IX, Duke of Aquitaine |
Mother | Philippa, Countess of Toulouse |
Agnes of Aquitaine (
First marriage
Agnes was the daughter of Duke
- William I (died 1151), succeeded his father[1]
- Guy, lord of Oiron[1] (died c. 1149)
- Geoffrey IV (died 1173), succeeded William.Alix of Thouars.
Second marriage
On 13 November 1135 in the
They elected Alfonso's brother king. This man was a monk, and his name was Ramiro. They gave him the sister of the Count of Poitiers for a wife. Even though this was a great sin, the Aragonese did it, for they had lost their king and hoped that there would be an offspring from the royal family. . . King Ramiro went to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a daughter. . . He transferred the kingdom to his daughter and acknowledged his sins. He then did penance.[7]
Agnes' age (approximately thirty) and proven fertility in her prior marriage were probably the main reasons the Aragonese sought her out.
In a document from the same month as his marriage, Ramiro declares that he "took a wife not out of carnal lust, but for the restoration of the blood and the lineage" (uxorem quoque non carnis libidine, set sanguinis ac proienici restauratione duxi).
Queenship
The first known royal diploma in which Agnes appears as queen is an original dated 29 January 1136.
In a series of acts between 11 August and 13 November 1137, Ramiro betrothed his daughter to the powerful Count
Notes
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Ubieto Arteta 1987, p. 128–32.
- ^ McDougall 2016, p. 199.
- ^ Martindale 2001, p. 144.
- ^ a b Dunbabin 1985, p. 384.
- ^ Imbert 1876, p. 11, no. 8.
- ^ a b c d Reilly 1998, p. 53.
- ^ Lipskey 1972, p. 84 (book I, §62).
- ^ Lourie 1975, p. 640.
- ^ Waag 2022, p. 97.
- ^ a b c Ubieto Arteta 1987, pp. 137–38.
- ^ a b Reilly 1998, p. 61.
- ^ Fletcher 1984, p. 272.
Sources
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- Fletcher, Richard A. (1984). Saint James's Catapult: The Life and Times of Diego Gelmírez of Santiago de Compostela. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Imbert, Hugues (1876). Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Saint-Laon de Thouars. Niort: L. Clouzot.
- Lipskey, Glenn Edward (1972). The Chronicle of Alfonso the Emperor: A Translation of the Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris, with Study and Notes (PhD dissertation). Northwestern University.
- Lourie, Elena (1975). "The Will of Alfonso I, El Batallador, King of Aragon and Navarre: A Reassessment". Speculum. 50 (4): 635–51. JSTOR 2855471.
- Martindale, Jane (2001). "'An unfinished business': Angevin Politics and the Siege of Toulouse, 1159". In Gillingham, John (ed.). Anglo-Norman Studies XXIII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2000. The Boydell Press.
- McDougall, Sara (2016). Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230. Oxford University Press.
- Reilly, Bernard F. (1998). The Kingdom of León–Castilla Under King Alfonso VII, 1126–1157. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Ubieto Arteta, Antonio (1987). Historia de Aragón: creación y desarrollo de la corona de Aragón. Zaragoza: Anubar. Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2017-09-08.
- Vajay, Szabolcs de (1966). "Ramire II le Moine, roi d'Aragon, et Agnès de Poitou dans l'histoire et dans la légende". Mélanges offerts à René Crozet. Poitiers: Société d'Etudes Médiévales. pp. 727–50.
- Waag, Anaïs (2022). Church, Stephen D. (ed.). "Rulership, Authority, and Power in the Middle Ages: The Proprietary Queen as Head of Dynasty". Anglo-Norman Studies XLIV: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2021. The Boydell Press: 71–104.
See also
- Dukes of Aquitaine family tree