Eleanor of Anjou
| Eleanor of Anjou | |
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William, Prince of Taranto John, Duke of Randazzo | |
| House | Anjou-Sicily |
| Father | King Charles II of Naples |
| Mother | Mary of Hungary |
Eleanor of Anjou (August 1289 – 9 August 1341) was
She was the third daughter of King Charles II of Naples and Mary of Hungary.[1]
Eleanor was firstly married in 1299 to Philippe II de Toucy, son of
On 17 May 1302, Eleanor married secondly to the
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 Frederick had nine children:
- Peter II of Sicily (1304–1342), successor[3]
- Roger (born 1305), died young
- Neopatria[4]
- Constance, married on December 29, 1331 to Leo IV of Armenia
- Stephen II of Bavaria
- Neopatria[4]
- Neopatria,[4]Regent of Sicily (from 1338)
- Catherine (1320–1342)
- Margaret (1331–1377), married (1348) Rudolf II of the Palatinate
Eleanor died on the 9 August 1341 at the Monastery of San Nicolo di Arena (Catania), she had been a widow since 1337. She was buried at a Franciscan monastery in Catania.
References
- ^ Musto 2003, p. 78.
- ^ Dunbabin 2011, p. xii.
- ^ Hulme 1915, p. 561.
- ^ a b c Grierson & Travaini 1998, p. 256.
Sources
- Dunbabin, Jean (2011). The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266–1305. Cambridge University Press.
- Grierson, Philip; Travaini, Lucia (1998). Medieval European Coinage. Vol. 14, South Italy, Sicily, Sardinia. Cambridge University Press.
- Hulme, Edward Maslin (1915). The Renaissance: The Protestant Revolution and the Catholic Reformation in Continental Europe. The Century Co.
- Musto, Ronald G. (2003). Apocalypse in Rome: Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New Age. University of California Press.
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