Elisabeth of Sicily (1310-1349)

Elisabeth of Sicily (also Isabel of Aragon ; * around 1310; † March 21, 1349 in Landshut ) was by birth a Princess of Sicily from the House of Barcelona and by marriage from 1347–49 Duchess of Bavaria .

Life

Elisabeth of Sicily was a daughter of King Frederick II of Sicily and his wife Eleonore of Anjou . On June 27, 1328, when she was about 18 years old, she was married to the underage Bavarian Prince Stephan (II.) (Around 1319-1375), a son of Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian , who was allied with her father . Apparently, this political marriage did not consummate until around the mid-1330s. Four children emerged from her:

Stephan III. (* 1337; † September 25, 1413), Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt
1. ⚭ 1367 Taddea Visconti (1351–1381), daughter of Bernabò Visconti
2. ⚭ 1401 Elisabeth von Kleve (around 1378 - after 1439), daughter of Adolf I of Kleve
Agnes (* around 1338),
1. ⚭ 1356 King James I of Cyprus, Jerusalem and Armenia (1334–1398)
Friedrich (around 1339 - December 4, 1393), Duke of Bavaria-Landshut
1. ⚭ 1360 Countess Anna von Neuffen (1327–1380), daughter of Berthold VII. Von Neuffen
2. ⚭ 1381 Maddalena Visconti (1366–1404), daughter of Bernabò Visconti
Johann II. (* Around 1341; † June / July 1397), Duke of Bavaria-Munich ,
1. ⚭ 1372 Katharina von Görz († 1391), daughter of Meinhard VI. from Gorizia

After the death of Ludwig of Bavaria in October 1347, Stephan II ruled together with his brothers in Bavaria and other Wittelsbach territories, and his wife Elisabeth rose accordingly to become Bavarian Duchess. However, she died in March 1349 at the age of only about 39 in Landshut and was buried in the Frauenkirche in Munich . In 1359, Duke Stephan II married Countess Margarete, a daughter of Burgrave Johann II of Nuremberg . Elisabeth was among other things about her son Stephan III. Grandmother of the French Queen Isabeau .

literature

Elizabeth of Sicily , in: Anne Commire (Ed.): Women in World History . Vol. 5 (2000), p. 169.

Web links

Charles Cawley: Isabella of Sicily , at Medieval Lands

Remarks

^ Hans Rall, Marga Rall: Die Wittelsbacher in Lebensbilder , Piper Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-492-24597-8 , p. 67.
↑ Hans Rall, Marga Rall: Die Wittelsbacher in Lebensbildern , p. 68.

personal data
SURNAME	Elisabeth of Sicily
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Isabel of Aragon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Duchess of Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1310
DATE OF DEATH	March 21, 1349
Place of death	Landshut

[1] Hans Rall, Marga Rall: Die Wittelsbacher in Lebensbilder , Piper Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-492-24597-8 , p. 67.

[2] Hans Rall, Marga Rall: Die Wittelsbacher in Lebensbildern , p. 68.