Margaret of Prades

Margaret of Prades (1388/95 – 1429) was the queen consort of King Martin I of Aragon.

She was the daughter of Peter of Aragon, Baron of Entenza (1352–1395) and his wife Joan of Cabrera.

On 17 September 1409, Margaret 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.

Margaret of Prades remained a widow for about four years. She married her second husband John of Vilaragut in 1415. In secret, she gave birth to a son in 1416, whose name was Joan Jeroni de Vilaragut (1416–1452).^[1] John of Vilaragut died in 1422. Margaret entered the monastery of Bonrepòs. She died in 1429.

Ancestry

Notes

1. ^ Núria Silleras-Fernández: Widowhood and Deception: Ambiguities of Queenship in Late Medieval Crown of Aragon – 14 August 2011

External links

• A listing of descendants of the House of Barcelona
• http://libro.uca.edu/montcada/montcada.htm