Genealogía de la familia Figueredo
Notes for Jaime I de Aragon/Violante de Hungria
Jaime I, King of Aragon, (el Conquistador) was
born in 1208, in Montpellier, County of Toulouse, and ascended to
the crown at the age of five, when his father, Pedro II (el
Católico) was killed fighting against the crusaders, led by
Simon de Montfort in 1213. He was placed under the protection of
the Knights Templars at Monzón, who cared for and educated him.
The regency was exercised by his great uncle, Count Sancho of
Roussillon (in Aragon, now in France), until 1218, when Sancho
resigned in the face of opposition from some Aragonese and
Catalonian nobles. The ensuing rebellions, during which the King
often found himself in great danger, formed a hard school for the
forging of his character. Fearless even as a youth, he fought an
Aragonese noble in hand-to-hand combat, took part in the siege of
the port of Castejón in 1222, and three years later tried to
seize another port.
In 1227 Jaime took over the effective government of his kingdoms
and at once began the first of his great campaigns of reconquest
- that of the Balearic Islands. Majorca was captured in December
1229, and the occupation was completed in 1235 by the conquest of
Ibiza, the smallest of the Balearic Islands. Thence forward, the
islands were a bulwark to defend the Catalan coasts and a base
from which trade and political expansion could be launched
eastward.
In 1233 Jaime began a second war of reconquest - against the
Saracen rulers of the Kingdom of Valencia, a campaign which
lasted until 1244, when Valencia was finally conquered.
Jaime I married three times. On February 6, 1221, in Agreda, he
married Leonor de Castilla (1), daughter of
Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, and Eleanor Plantagenet, with whom
he had a son, Alfonso.
In 1229, Jaime divorced Leonor and in 1235, in Barcelona, married
Violante de Hungria, daughter of Andrew II, King
of Hungary, and Gertrude of Meran, by whom he had ten children,
Pedro, Violante, Isabelle, James, Ferran, Constança, Sanchez
Fernando, Fernandez Pedro, Maria, and Leonor.
In 1251, Violante de Hungria died in Huesca, and Jaime secretly
married Teresa, daughter of Juan de Vidaure.
They had two children, Jaime and Pedro.
In 1248 and 1262, Jaime divided his realms among his sons but
only succeeded in causing virulent civil strife. In the division,
his elder son, Pedro, received Aragon, Valencia, and Catalonia,
and his younger son, James, received the Balearic Islands,
Roussillon, and other Pyrenean counties that he was to hold in
fief from Pedro.
This division of realms among his heirs was not Jaime's only
political blunder. By the Treaty of Corbeil (1258) he renounced
his claims to territories in the south of France, thus abandoning
the traditional policy that the Catalan dynasty had hitherto
pursued across the Pyrenees. He was, however, able to develop
relations and promote trade with the states of North Africa; and,
with a clear view of the future, he married his principal heir,
Pedro, to Constance of Sicily, thus making it easy for the latter
kingdom to be added in later years to the crown of Aragon. Always
a chivalrous soldier, Jaime helped his son-in-law Alfonso X of
Castile to suppress the rebellion of the Moors in the Kingdom of
Murcia (1266); he also set out on a crusade to the Holy Land
(1269), though this was a failure.
A soldier of extraordinary courage and great gifts of leadership,
Jaime was a stout man, strong and handsome; he has been
criticized for his many love affairs that caused him to be
described as an home defembres [lady's man]. On balance,
his reign was very beneficial.
The important code of maritime law called the Libre del
Consolat del Mar was compiled; the Kingdom of Valencia
received its own legal system; various cities, including
Barcelona, acquired their own civic administrations; and the
Cortes - the representative assembly - came into being. The King
protected men of letters, inspired the chronicle that bears his
name (though he did not himself write it), and brought his
different peoples to a degree of political and cultural maturity
that can reasonably be described as admirable. He died in 1276,
in Valencia.
Child of Jaime I, King of Aragon, and Leonor de Castilla:
i Alfonso, Infante de Aragon, was born in 1229, and married, in
Calatayud in 1260, Constanza de Moncada, Condesa de Bigorre,
Vizcondesa de Marsan. Alfonso died in 1260, in
Calatayud, and Constanza died in 1310.
Children of Jaime I, King of Aragon, and Violante de Hungria:
ii Pedro III, King of Aragon, (el Grande) [17th great
grandfather of Perucho]
iii Violante de Aragon (1) [18th great grandmother of Perucho]
iv Isabel de Aragon (1) was born in 1247, and married in 1262,
Philip III, King of France (the Bold). They had two children,
Philip IV, King of France (the Fair), and Charles de Valois, Conde
de Valois. Isabel died in 1271.
v James II, King of Majorca, Conde de Roussillon y Cerdagne,
Señor de Montpellier, was born in Barcelona in 1243,
and inherited the throne of Majorca when his father died in 1276.
In 1272, in Barcelona, he married Esclaramunde, the daughter of
Roger IV, Conde de Foix, and they had six children,
including Isabel de Majorca, who married Juan Manuel, Infante de
Castilla. James died in 1311, in Palma de Majorca.
vi Fernando de Aragon was born in 1245 and died in 1250.
vii Constanza de Aragon (1) married Manuel, Infante de
Castilla, Señor de Escalona, Peñafiel y
Villena, son of King Fernando III of Castile, in 1260, or in
1263, in Soria, Spain. They had two children, Alfonso Manuel de
Castilla and Violante de Castilla. Constanza died in either1283,
or in about 1269.
viii Sancho de Aragon was born in 1246, and died in the Holy Land
in 1251.
ix Sancho de Aragon was born in 1250, and was archbishop of
Toledo.He was killed at Martos in 1275.
x Maria de Aragon (1) was born in 1248, and was a nun at Sijena.
She died in Zaragoza in 1267.
xi Leonor de Aragon was born in 1251, and died young.
Children of Jaime I, King of Aragon, and Teresa, daughter of
Juan de Vidaure:
xii Jaime Fernandez de Aragon, Baron de Ejerica, was
born between 1255 and 1260. He married in about 1276, Elsa,
daughter of Alvar Perez de Azagra and Ines de Navarra. Jaime died
in 1285.
xiii Pedro de Aragon (1) Señor de Ayerbe, was born in
1259, and married Aldonza de Cevera. He died in 1318.
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