Margarita of Aragon-Prades
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Margarita of Aragon-Prades (1395 - 1422) was the second Queen consort of Martin I of Aragon.
[edit] Family
Margarita was a daughter of Pedro of Aragon, Baron of Entenza (1352 - 1395) and his wife Juana of Cabrera.
Her paternal grandparents Juan of Aragon, Count of Prades (1335 - 1414) and his wife Sancha Ximenez de Arenos. Juan served as Seneschal of Catalonia.
Juan was the second son of Peter (Pere) (1305 - 1381), Count of Ribagorça and Prades and his wife Jean of Foix.
Peter was a son of James II of Aragon and his second wife Blanca of Anjou. Jean was a daughter of Gaston I of Foix-Béarn, Head of the House of Foix.
Blanca was a daughter of Charles II of Naples and Maria Arpad of Hungary. Gaston was a son of Roger-Bernard III of Foix and Margaret of Montcada, heiress of Béarn.
Roger-Bernard III was a son of Roger IV of Foix. Margaret was a daughter of Gaston VII of Montcada.
Gaston VII was son of Guillem II of Montcada, grandson of Guillem Ramon I of Montcada and great-grandson of Gaston VI of Montcada.
Gaston VI was the elder son of Mary of Béarn and her husband and co-ruler William I of Béarn.
[edit] Marriages
On 17 September 1409, Margarita married Martin I of Aragon, a second cousin of her father. The bride was about fourteen years old and the groom fifty-three. Martin had survived all his legitimate children from his first marriage with Maria de Luna and was in need of a legitimate heir of his own.
On 31 March 1410, Martin I died after six months of marriage. They had no children. His death led to a two-year interregnum, which was ended by the Pact of Caspe, in which Ferdinand I of Aragon, infante of Castile's House of Trastámara, younger son of his sister Eleanor of Aragon, was chosen as the next king from among at least five contenders.
Margarita remained a widow for about four years. She married her second husband Juan of Vilaragut in 1414. Again there were no children. Juan died in 1422. Margarita entered the monastery of Monrepes. She is not considered to have outlived him for long.
| Preceded by Maria de Luna |
Queen Consort of Aragon, Majorca, Valencia and Countess Consort of Barcelona 17 September 1409 - 31 March 1410 |
Succeeded by Eleanor of Alburquerque |
| Preceded by Blanche I of Navarre |
Queen consort of Sicily 17 September 1409 - 31 March 1410 |
Succeeded by Eleanor of Alburquerque |
