Ramón IV BÉRENGAR, Comte de Barcelona
(1115-1162)
Infanta doña Petronila DE ARAGÓN
(1136-1174)
Infante don Alfonso VII "el Emperador" DE CASTILLA y León
(1106-1157)
Riksa PIAST of Silesia
(1132-1185)
Infante don Alfonso II "el Casto" DE ARAGÓN
(1152-1196)
Infanta doña Sancha DE CASTILLA
(1154-1208)
Infanta doña Constanza DE ARAGÓN
(Abt 1179-1222)

 

Family Links

Spouses/Children:
1. Imre ÁRPÁD, King of Hungary

  • László III "Gyermek/the Child" ÁRPÁD (d.y.)
2. Konstantin Roger Friedrich (Friedrich II) VON STAUFEN, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Heinrich VII VON HOHENSTAUFEN, King of Germany

Infanta doña Constanza DE ARAGÓN

  • Born: Abt 1179
  • Married (1): 1198
  • Married (2): Feb 1210, Messina, Italy
  • Died: 23 Jun 1222, Catania, Italy
  • Buried: Palermo Cathedral, Sicily

  Research Notes:

The Gestis Comitum Barcinonensium names "Constantia" as oldest of the three daughters of "Ildefonsi", specifying that she married "Regi Ungariæ" but returned childless to Aragon after his death. The Chronicon Dubnicense records that "Emericus" married "Constancia filia regis Aragonie Cesari Friderico". The "Corónicas" Navarras name "al yfant don Pedro, rey d'Aragón, et al marqués de Provença don Alfonso, et a don Ferrando, abbat de Mont aragón, et una filla que casaron en Ongría" as the children of "el rey don Alfonso d'Aragón" and his wife. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Constantia regina" as wife of "Hemericus filius [regis Hungarie Bela]", specifying that she later married "Frederico imperatori". The Historia Sicula of Bartolomeo di Neocastro names "Constancia soror…Iacobi regis Aragonum" as the first wife of "dominus Fridericus secundus…Romanorum…imperator". The Continuatio Admuntensis records that she took her son to Vienna and, after his death, Leopold Duke of Austria arranged her repatriation to "fratri suo Hyspaniarum regi".

The Crónica de San Juan de la Peña records that Pedro II King of Aragon arranged the marriage of his sister Constanza to "Fredrico Rey de Sicilia". The Ryccardus de Sancti Germano Annales record the marriage in 1209 of "Fredericus rex Sicilie" and "Constantiam sororem regis Arragonum". The Continuatio Claustroneoburgensis records the marriage of "Fridericus rex Apulie" and "filiam regis Arragonis, relictam regis Ungarie".

Named Regent of Sicily by her husband in 1212, during his absence in Germany until 1220. She was crowned Empress at Rome with her husband 22 Nov 1220.

The monk Conrad´s Brevis Chronica records the death "apud Cataniam" in 1222 of "domina Constantia imperatrix…prima uxor Frederici imperatoris". 1

  Marriage Information:

Constanza married Imre ÁRPÁD, King of Hungary & Croatia, son of Béla III ÁRPÁD, King of Hungary, and Agnès DE CHÂTILLON, Queen of Hungary, in 1198. (Imre ÁRPÁD was born in 1174 in Hungary and died on 30 Nov 1204.)

  Marriage Information:

Constanza also married Konstantin Roger Friedrich (Friedrich II) VON STAUFEN, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Heinrich VI VON STAUFEN, Holy Roman Emperor, and Constanza DE HAUTEVILLE, Princess of Sicily, in Feb 1210 in Messina, Italy. (Konstantin Roger Friedrich VON STAUFEN was born on 26 Dec 1194 in Iesi and died on 13 Dec 1250 in Monreale, Palermo, Sicily.)

Sources


1 Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, Medlands: Infanta doña Constanza de Aragón.


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