Maria, Queen of Sicily

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Maria (2 July 1363 – 25 May 1401) was

Accession to the Sicilian Throne

Born in Catania, Maria was the daughter and heir of Frederick the Simple by his first wife Constance of Aragon. After her father's death in 1377, she ascended the Sicilian throne. Her government, however, was effectively taken over. She was only thirteen years old at the time, and the four baronial families who claimed her power styled themselves "vicars."

One of the Vicars, Artale Alagona, was previously named regent by Maria's father. In 1360—seventeen years before Queen Maria's ascension—Alagona had burnt and razed to the ground Augusta, an important fortified city, using forces from Syracuse and Catania.^[1] However, Alagona's regency failed because of conflicts between the "Sicilian" and "Aragonese" parties, and he was forced to form a government with three other Vicars instead. The four baronial families were chosen to represent and equally distribute power between the Sicilian and Aragonese factions.

Unrest during the Vicars' Reign

Starting in 1377, the

Maria of Sicily died at Lentini in 1401.

References

• Lo Forte Scirpo, Maria Rita (2003). C'era una volta una regina...: due donne per un regno: Maria d'Aragona e Bianca di Navarra. Naples: Liguori.
  ISBN 88-207-3527-X
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• Di Blasi, Giovanni Evangelista (1847). Storia del regno di Sicilia (in Italian). Volume 3. Edizioni Dafni.
• Murray, John (1890). A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy and Sicily: Comprising the Description of Naples and Its Environs, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Vesuvius, Sorrento; the Islands of Capri, and Ischia; Amalfi, Pæstum, and Capua, the Abruzzi and Calabria; Palermo, Girgenti, the Greek Temples, and Messina. Volume 2.

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20040820055312/http://www.mittelalter-genealogie.de/mittelalter/koenige/sizilien/maria_koenigin_1402.html