miércoles, 5 de marzo de 2014

Blanche of Naples.

Blanche of Anjou, better known as Blanche of Naples (Naples 1283 - Barcelona 1310) was Princess of Naples and Queen consort of Aragon by her marriage to King James "the righteous". Daughter of King Charles III of Naples and his wife Mary of Hungary. She was granddaughter patrilineal of the Duke Charles I of Anjou and Countess Beatrix of Provence and matrilineal, was granddaughter of Stephen V of Hungary and Elizabeth Cumana. She was the sister of King Charles I of Hungary and Robert I of Naples.

She married 29 October 1295 in the Church of Santa Maria de Vilabertran (Ampúrias County of ) to the king of Aragon and count of Barcelona James II "the righteous", with whom she had the following children:

- Prince James of Aragón. Renounced his rights in 1331 and refused to marry the Princess Eleanor of Castile and Portugal. 
- Prince Alphonsus "the Benign". Count of Barcelona and King of Aragon. 
- Princess Mary of Aragon. Queen consort of Castile. 
- Princess Constanza of Aragon. Wife of Prince John "the Wise" of Castile. 
- Princess Elizabeth of Aragon. Empress consort of Austria. 
- Prince John of Aragon. Archbishop of Toledo and Tarragona, and Patriarch of Alexandria. 
- Prince Peter of Aragon. Count of Ampúrias. 
- The White Princess of Aragon. Nun. 
- Prince Ramon Berenguer of Aragon. Count of Ampúrias. 
- Princess Violant of Aragon. Queen Consort of Romania.

Blanche of Anjou died in Barcelona in 1310, after giving birth to her tenth child.

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