Antonia of Baux

Antonia of Baux (Italian: Antonia del Balzo; c. 1355 – 23 January 1374) was the second Queen consort of Frederick III, King of Sicily.

Antonia of Baux
Antonia del Balzo
Born1355
Died23 January 1374
NationalityItalian

Antonia was a daughter of Francis of Baux and his second wife Marguerite of Taranto.[1] Antonia's only other sibling by her father's marriage to Marguerite was James of Baux, the last titular Latin Emperor of Constantinople.[1] Her paternal grandparents were Bertrand III of Baux, Count of Andria and Marguerite d'Aulnay.[1] Her maternal grandparents were Philip I of Taranto and Catherine II of Valois, Princess of Achaea.[1]

On 26 November 1373, Antonia married Frederick III the Simple, king of Sicily. The bride was approximately seventeen years old and the groom thirty-one. He had a daughter from a previous marriage but no male heirs.[1] This marriage sealed the peace between Naples and Sicily, priorly agreed.[2] Antonia died childless after a short marriage. Frederick never remarried and died in 1377. He was succeeded by his only daughter Maria of Sicily.

References
  1. Douglas Richardson. Plantagenet Ancestry: Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011. pg 401.
  2. Fodale, Salvatore (1995). "Federico IV d'Aragona, re di Sicilia, detto il Semplice". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Vol. 45. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.


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