Margaret of Prades
Template:Short description Template:Expand Spanish Template:Expand Catalan Template:Infobox royalty Margaret of Prades (1388/95 – 23 July 1429) was Queen of Aragon by marriage to King Martin of Aragon.[1]
Life
She was the daughter of Peter of Aragon, Baron of Entenza (1352–1395), and his wife, Joana of Cabrera.
On 17 September 1409, Margaret married King Martin of Catalonia-Aragon, a second cousin of her father. The bride was about fourteen years old and the groom fifty-three. King Martin I had survived all his legitimate children from his first marriage with Maria de Luna and was in need of a legitimate heir of his own. On 31 May 1410, Martin I died after six months of marriage. They had no children. His death led to a two-year interregnum, which was ended by the Pact of Caspe, in which Ferdinand I of Aragon, younger son of Martin's sister Eleanor, was chosen as the next king.
Margaret remained a widow for about four years. She married her second husband John of Vilaragut in 1415. In secret, she gave birth to a son in 1416, whose name was Joan Jeroni de Vilaragut (1416–1452).[2] Her second husband John died in 1422 and Margaret entered the monastery of Bonrepòs in La Morera de Montsant. She died in 1429.
Notes
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- ↑ Fort I Cogul, Eufemià (1970). La llegenda sobre Margarida de Prades (en catalán). Barcelona: Fundació Salvador Vives Casajuana. OCLC 13154089.
- ↑ Núria Silleras-Fernández: Widowhood and Deception: Ambiguities of Queenship in Late Medieval Crown of Aragon – 14 August 2011
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