Margaret of Prades explained

Margaret of Prades
Succession:Queen of Aragon
Reign:17 September 1409 – 31 March 1410
Birth Date:1388/95
Birth Place:Falset
Death Date:23 July 1429
Death Place:Riudoms
Burial Place:Santes Creus
Consort:yes
Spouse:Martin of Aragon
John of Vilaragut
Issue:Joan Jeroni de Vilaragut
Father:Peter of Aragon, Baron of Entenza
Mother:Joana of Cabrera

Margaret of Prades (1388/95 – 23 July 1429) was Queen of Aragon by marriage to King Martin of Aragon.[1]

Life

She was the daughter of Peter of Aragon, Baron of Entenza (1352–1395), and his wife, Joana of Cabrera.On 17 September 1409, Margaret married Martin of Catalonia-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, younger son of his sister Eleanor, was chosen as the next king.

Margaret 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).[2] John died in 1422 and Margaret entered the monastery of Bonrepòs. She died in 1429.

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Notes and References

  1. Fort I Cogul, Eufemià (1970). La llegenda sobre Margarida de Prades (en catalán). Barcelona: Fundació Salvador Vives Casajuana. OCLC 13154089.
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=CHrnGqF6-qsC&dq=joan+jeroni+de+vilaragut&pg=PA201 Núria Silleras-Fernández: Widowhood and Deception: Ambiguities of Queenship in Late Medieval Crown of Aragon