Antonia of Baux
Antonia of Baux (Italian: Antonia del Balzo; c. 1355 – 23 January 1374) was the second Queen consort of Frederick III, King of Sicily.
Antonia was a daughter of Francis of Baux and his second wife Marguerite of Taranto.[1] Antonia's only other sibling by her father's marriage to Marguerite was James of Baux, the last titular Latin Emperor of Constantinople.[1] Her paternal grandparents were Bertrand III of Baux, Count of Andria and Marguerite d'Aulnay.[1] Her maternal grandparents were Philip I of Taranto and Catherine II of Valois, Princess of Achaea.[1]
On 26 November 1373, Antonia married Frederick III the Simple. The bride was approximately seventeen years old and the groom thirty-one. He had a daughter from a previous marriage but no male heirs.[1] This marriage sealed the peace between Naples and Sicily, agreed the prior.[2] Antonia died childless after only two years of marriage. Frederick never remarried and died in 1377. He was succeeded by his only daughter Maria of Sicily.
References
- ^ a b c d e Douglas Richardson. Plantagenet Ancestry: Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011. pg 401.
- ^ Fodale, Salvatore (1995). "Federico IV d'Aragona, re di Sicilia, detto il Semplice". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Vol. 45. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.
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