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Violant of Bar and her marriage to Joan of Aragon, Duke of Girona Violant was born in 1363 at the castle of Bar-le-Duc. She was the daughter of Robert of Bar and Marie of France, sister of King Charles V of France. Her destiny would make her Duchess of Girona and wife to the heir to the Aragonese throne at only seventeen years old.
Violant of Bar's marriage to Duke John was not well received by his father, King Pere III, who wanted John to marry his granddaughter, Maria, Queen of Sicily, to reunite the two polities. John refused to marry his half-niece, and in retaliation King Pere III and his wife failed to show up to the marriage ceremony and reception.
monarch. Noble title. royal Consort of Aragon ( Maria de Luna, Sibila of Fortia, 1387–1396) Family. House of Scarpone. Father. Robert I, Duke of Bar. Mother. Marie of Valois, Duchess of Bar.
Violant or Violante of Aragon, also known as Yolanda of Aragon (8 June 1236 [citation needed] – 1301), was Queen consort of Castile and León from 1252 to 1284 as the wife of King Alfonso X of Castile. Life. Violant was born in Zaragoza, the daughter of King James I of Aragon (1213–1276) and his second wife, Yolande of Hungary (ca.1215-1253).
Jan 1, 2006 · Abstract The treatment that Violant de Bar, duchess of Girona and queen of Aragon (1380–96), has received at the hands of medieval historians has been both negative and dismissive. She has been portrayed as a virile female and intrusive foreigner and blamed for the ruinous political and fiscal excesses allowed during the reign of her husband, Joan I (1387–96). By utilizing the vast ...
Born in Zaragoza on August 11, 1381, Yolande of Aragon was the eldest and only surviving child of the marriage of Joan I and Violant of Bar.Her mother, Violant, was the daughter of Robert I, Duke of Bar, and Marie of France, the grand-daughter of Jean II le Bon, King of France, the niece of Charles V of France, and the cousin of Charles VI of France. 2 Of Yolande’s early life, we know little ...
Jul 15, 2016 · March/April 1396.] 1396 was truly an annus horribilis for Violant of Bar; her youngest child Joana de Perpiña died in the early spring, her husband, the king, died in May and her beloved younger brothers, Philippe and Henri of Bar, both perished as a result of Nicopolis Crusade of 1396. Philippe died in the Battle of Nicopolis on September 25 ...
