Martin I (Sicily)

Martin I of Aragon

Martin I , called the boy ( el Joven ) (* 1376 ; † July 25, 1409 in Cagliari ), from the House of Aragón , was from 1392 to 1401 together with his wife Maria of Sicily and after her death 1401 to 1409 sole king of Sicily .

Life

Martin was the son of King Martin I of Aragon and his first wife Maria de Luna. He married Queen Maria of Sicily in 1392 and thereby became her co-regent. For this purpose Maria had been kidnapped to Catalonia in order to thwart her marriage plans with the Visconti family . Martin's father landed with an expedition as a representative of his son and daughter-in-law in Sicily and restored the rule of the crown.

After Maria died in 1401, Martin ruled alone. On November 26, 1402 he married Blanka of Navarre . As King of Sicily, Martin was completely under the influence of his father, who communicated directly with the councils in Sicily from Aragon . Martin died in 1409 during a campaign to Sardinia without legitimate descendants. His father followed him as king as Martin II the old man.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Salvatore Fodale: Blanca de Navarra y el gobierno de Sicilia . In: Príncipe de Viana . No. 217 , 1999, pp. 312 (Spanish, [1] [accessed April 18, 2015]).

literature

• Henri Bresc: Martin the Younger . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 6, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7608-8906-9 , Sp. 340 f.
• Salvatore Tramontana:  Martino I d'Aragona (Martino il Giovane), re di Sicilia. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 71:  Marsilli – Massimino da Salerno. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2008, pp. 288-293.
• Salvador Claramunt Rodríguez: Martín I. Real Academia de la Historia, 2018, accessed February 25, 2016 (Spanish). 

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predecessor	Office	successor
Maria	King of Sicily 1392–1409	Martin II the humane