Sibylla of Burgundy
- This is an article about Sibylla of Burgundy, queen of Jerusalem. For her namesake, see Sibylla of Burgundy, Duchess of Burgundy.
Sibylla with her husband.
Sibylla of Burgundy (1126 – 16 September 1150 in Salerno) was the second queen consort of Roger II of Sicily.
Family
She was a daughter of Hugh II, Duke of Burgundy and his wife Felicia-Matilda of Mayenne.[1]
Her maternal grandparents were Gauthier, Count of Mayenne and Adelina de Presles.
Marriage, Issue and Death
In 1149, Sibylla married King Roger II of Sicily. On 29 August of that year, she gave birth to a son (apparently premature) called Henry, who died young.
One year later she became pregnant a second time. Sibylla gave birth to a stillborn child and died of complications of the childbirth. She was buried in the church of the Monastery of La Trinità Cava de' Tirreni.[2]
References
- ↑ Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy of the House of Capet". Genealogy.EU.
- ↑ Simeone Leone, Dalla fondazione del cenobio al secolo XVI, in La badia di Cava, edizioni Di Mauro – Cava de' Tirreni, 1985; Cawley, Charles, BURGUNDY, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, retrieved August 2012,
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| Preceded by Elvira of Castile |
Queen consort of Sicily 1149–1150 |
Succeeded by Beatrice of Rethel |