Constance II of Sicily
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Constance II (c. 1249Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 9 April 1302) was Queen of Sicily from September 1282 to November 1285 alongside her husband, King Peter I. She was also Queen of Aragon from 1276 to 1285 during her husband's reign as Peter III of Aragon. She was a pretender to the Kingdom of Sicily from 1268 to 1282.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". She was the only daughter of Manfred, King of Sicily, and his first wife, Beatrice of Savoy.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Life
Constance was largely raised by Bella d'Amichi, who remained her favorite and confidante as queen.[1] On 13 June 1262, Constance married Peter,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". eldest son of King James I of Aragon. Her father was killed in the Battle of Benevento (26 February 1266) while fighting against his rival, Charles of Anjou.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". She inherited his claim to the Sicilian throne. According to author E.L. Miron in her book "The Queens of Aragon" Constance was the first Queen of Aragon whose coronation was recorded as taking place, in Zaragoza on November 17, 1276.
James I died on 27 July 1276 and Peter succeeded to the throne with Constance as queen. During the War of the Sicilian Vespers (1282–1302), Peter and then their sons claimed the throne of Sicily in her right. The war resulted in the partition of the Kingdom of Sicily and the creation of the Kingdom of Trinacria under her heirs and the Kingdom of Naples under the heirs of Charles of Anjou.
Peter III died on November 1285. Constance died as a nun in Barcelona.
Children
Constance and Peter III of Aragon had six children:
- Alfonso III of Aragon (4 November 1265 – 18 June 1291).Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- James II of Aragon (10 August 1267 – 2 November 1327).Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal (c. 1271Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 4 July 1336). Married Denis of PortugalScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Frederick III of Sicily (13 December 1272 – 25 June 1337).Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Yolande, Duchess of Calabria (c. 1273Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – August 1302). Married Robert of NaplesScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Peter of Aragon (c. 1275Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 25 August 1296). Married Guillemette of Béarn, daughter of Gaston VII, Viscount of Béarn.
Role in Dante's Divine Comedy
Though most historical sources have little information about her, Constance occupies a place in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Constance's appearance in Canto III of Purgatorio of the Divine Comedy is understated and shadow-like. The reader learns of Constance through the speech of her father, Manfred of Sicily, whom Dante meets in the space of Mount Purgatory reserved for excommunicated souls. Manfred begs the poet to bring the truth "if another tale is told [to his] fair daughter, mother of the pride of Sicily and Aragon."[2] Manfred proceeds to tell Dante of how he repented and confessed to God for his "horrible" sins shortly before his death, and was thus saved from an afterlife in Hell, contrary to what others may have thought. Manfred concludes his speech by telling Dante that his sentence in Purgatory may be lessened if those still alive on Earth pray for him, and subsequently by asking Dante to tell Constance of his current placement and of how her "holy prayers" can aid in his movement toward Paradise.[2]
References
- ↑ «Diccionari Biogràfic de Dones: Bella, d'Amichi Script error: No such module "webarchive".»
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