Talesa of Aragon

Talesa of Aragon († after 1136) was a Spanish noblewoman. She was married to Gaston IV. Viscount de Béarn since 1085 . While he was at war and after his death, she ruled Béarn and the other territories under her husband's rule.

Life

Talesa was the daughter of Count Sancho de Aybar and Javierre-Latre. She brought into the marriage with Gaston IV the vice-county of Montaner, which thus also belonged to the Béarn. They had 4 children:

• Guiscarda
• daughter unknown by name
• Centullus born 1102 and died before 1128
• Centulus VI.

After the death of Gaston IV on May 24, 1131, she took over the reign of her minor son, who, however, fell at the side of King Alfonso I in the battle of Fraga in 1134 . After his death, Pedro followed, Guiscarda's son, also a minor, for whom Talesa also took over the reign. As a result of the disputes that the will of Alfonso I had provoked in Aragon , Talesa opposed Ramiro II the monk , who took away her rule over Saragossa and Uncastillo . Through the mediation of the Pope , the disputes ended in 1137 with the marriage of the daughter Ramiros II, Petronella, with Raimund Berengar IV. , Count of Barcelona, ​​who from then on took over the affairs of state in Aragon, while Petronella, who was in her second year of life, nominally became queen (the marriage was not formally concluded until 1150).

Raimund Berengar IV tried not to endanger the alliance with the Béarn, and gave Talesa the fiefs of Huesca and Bespen as well as the rights over the Basílica del Pilar of Saragossa, in which the remains of Gaston IV. De Béarn lay. Her son Pedro married a Catalan princess.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hélène Débax: Vicomtes et vicomtés dans l'occident médiéval . Presses universitaires du Mirail, Toulouse 2008, ISBN 978-2-85816-942-9 , pp. 132 .
2. ^ Yvain de Sansac: Les princes de Béarn au XIIIe siècle. In: quem-biarnes.org. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011 ; accessed on August 24, 2015 .