• Born: 1236, Toledo, Castile
• Married (1): 29 Jan 1249, Valladolid, Spain
• Died: 1301, Roncesvalles, Navarre, Spain

  Research Notes:

The Crónica de San Juan de la Peña names "la primera…Violant…la otra Costancia…et Isabel…la quarta…Maria" as the four daughters of King Jaime and his second wife, stating that Violante married "Don Alfonso filio primogenitor del Rey de Castiella". The betrothal contract of “dominus Infans Alfonsus...regis Castellæ...primogenitus” and “domina Violante filia domini Jacobi...regis Aragonum” is dated 26 Nov 1246. Pope Innocent IV issued a dispensation for the marriage of “rege Aragonum...Yola nata ipsius” and “Alphonsus primogenitus regis Castellæ”, related “quarta consanguinitatis linea”, dated 23 Jan 1249. Under the testament of "Jacobus…Rex Aragoniæ, Majoricarum et Valenciæ, Comes Barchinonæ et Urgelli, et Dominus Montispessulani", dated 26 Aug 1272, the king made bequests to "…filiam nostram Domnam Yolant…". After her eldest son died, she fled with his infant children to Aragon. She died returning from a pilgrimage to Rome. The Nobiliario of Pedro Conde de Barcelos records that "la Reina D. Violante" was buried "en Sevilla" with her husband. ¹