Genealogy John Muijsers » Eleanor van Sicilie (1325-1375)

Personal data Eleanor van Sicilie 

• She was born in the year 1325.
• She died in the year 1375, she was 50 years old.
• A child of Peter ii van Sicilië and Elisabeth van Karintië

Household of Eleanor van Sicilie

She is married to Peter iv van Aragon.

They got married on August 27, 1349 at Valencia de Alcántara, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spanje, she was 24 years old.

Child(ren):

1. John i van Aragon  1350-1396 
2. Martinus van Aragon  1356-1410
3. Eleonora van Aragon  1358-1382 
4. Alfons van Aragon  1362-1364

Notes about Eleanor van Sicilie

Eleanor of Sicily (1325–1375) was Queen of Aragon from 1349 until 1375 as the third wife of King Peter IV.
leanor was the daughter of Peter II of Sicily and Elisabeth of Carinthia. She was the second of eight children, six of whom survived to adulthood.
Eleanor married in Valencia on 27 August 1349 to Peter IV of Aragon, on the condition that he renounce all rights to any Sicilian Crown. He was twice-widowed, had two surviving daughters: Constance and Joanna but no surviving sons.
Eleanor became a powerful influence at the Aragonese court, replacing Bernardo de Cabrera as Peter's chief adviser.[1]
Eleanor's brother Frederick III the Simple, married Constance of Aragon (Eleanor's stepdaughter). Frederick and Constance had a daughter, Maria, but no sons. Then in 1357 Frederick proposed to transfer the duchies of Athens and Neopatria to Eleanor in return for military help from her husband in Sicily, but was refused.[2]
Eleanor and Peter had four children:
John I of Aragon (1350–1396), succeeded his father and was father himself of Yolande of Aragon, however he had no male issue so the throne passed to his younger brother
Martin I of Aragon (1356–1410), succeeded John but had no surviving issue
Eleanor (1358–1382), who married John I of Castile and was the mother of Ferdinand I of Aragon.
Alfonso (1362–1364), died young
In 1373 Eleanor's eldest son John married Martha of Armagnac, a calm and conciliatory woman. Eleanor treated Martha as her own daughter.[3]
Upon a royal stay at her home in Empordà, Eleanor made Sibila of Fortia her lady-in-waiting. This led to an eventful future for the girl.
In Lérida on 20 April 1375, Eleanor died leaving her husband a widower and her three surviving children. Her husband remarried to Sibila, a girl that was over thirty years his junior. Most of the family, including Eleanor's children, came into conflict with Sibila.

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Timeline Eleanor van Sicilie

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