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Birth:          ABT 1215 Esztergom, Hungary
Death:          12 Oct 1251 Huesca, Spain

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violant_of_Hungary
Violant of Hungary (c. 1215–1251) was a Queen consort of Aragon and the second 
wife of King James I of Aragon. She is also called Jolánta in Hungarian, Iolanda or 
Violant d'Hongria in Catalan and Yolanda or Violante de Hungría in Spanish.
Family[edit]

Violant was born at Esztergom circa 1215, the only child of King Andrew II of Hungary 
and his second wife Yolanda of Courtenay.[1]

Marriage[edit]

Violant married James in 1235. James had already been married to Eleanor of Castile, 
but he had this marriage annulled on the basis of consanguinity in 1229. He and 
Eleanor had a son named Alfonso, who was considered legitimate, but who died prior 
to his father.

James and Violant had ten children:
1.Violant of Aragon[2] (1236–1301), Queen of Castile by her marriage to Alfonso X of 
Castile
2.Constance of Aragon, Lady of Villena (1239-1269)
3.Peter III of Aragon (1240–1285)
4.James II of Majorca (1243–1311)
5.Ferdinand of Aragon (1245–1250)
6.Sancha of Aragon (1246–1251)
7.Isabella of Aragon (1247–1271), Queen of France by her marriage to Philip III of 
France
8.Maria of Aragon (1248–1267), nun
9.Sancho of Aragon (1250–1275), Archbishop of Toledo[3]
10.Eleanor of Aragon (born 1251, date of death unknown; died young)

Violant was the grandmother of King Philip IV of France and Charles, Count of Valois 
through her daughter Isabella. Charles was the father of Philip VI of France.

Public Activity[edit]

Violant was a woman of talent and character. Next to James I, she had an important 
political role in the Crown of Aragon. She was one of the most valuable advisors of the 
king, on whom she had a strong influence.

She intervened decisively in international agreements as important as the Treaty of 
Almizra with Castile (1244). It was signed with the condition that Zayyan ibn Mardanish 
surrender of the city of Valencia, into which she triumphantly entered with her 
husband on 9 October 1238.

Death and burial[edit]

Violant reportedly died in 1251,[4] although there is some doubt about the exact year. 
Jerónimo Zurita, in his Anales de Aragon, mentions this discrepancy, and writes that 
while some annals state that Violant died in Santa María de Salas in 1251, others 
report that she lived for a few years after (the probable sources of the 1253 date), and 
that she only made her will and testament in Huesca in 1251.[5] Zurita continues that 
her will stipulated her burial at Vallbona, bequeathed the county of Posana (Pozsony) 
to her sons Peter, James, and Sancho (Pozsony being in the possession of her half-
brother Béla IV of Hungary, but apparently left to her by her mother Queen Yolanda), 
and mentioned that she had 5 daughters with the king.

Violant and her daughter Sancha's remains are at the Monastery of Santa Maria de 
Vallbona in Vallbona de les Monges, Catalonia. Violant chose burial in that monastery 
as she was a benefactor. Her tomb, placed along the wall on the right of the chancel, 
is fairly simple. It is raised on two pillars decorated with individual gold crosses 
inscribed in red (gules) circles, and has a gabled lid of white stone. In the center of 
the lid is a cross with the same characteristics as those on the pillars, but larger and 
without color. The only ornamentations on the box itself are three depictions of her 
husband's royal coat of arms - one on the visible side and one at each end. The 
Queen's remains were moved to the tomb in 1275, as indicated by the inscription on 
the visible side of the box: Fuit translata donna | Violán regina | Aragonum | anno 
1275. In 2002, the Hungarian government financed a restoration of her tomb, costing 
12,000 euros, but the monastic community denied permission to study its interior. 
Violant is the only member of the Árpád dynasty whose remains are undisturbed.

James I remarried one more time, to Teresa Gil de Vidaure, who was previously his 
mistress.

Parents
____ Andrew (Andras) II "Masodik Endre" (1176 - 21 Sep 1235)
DE COURTENAY Yolanda (Iolande) (ABT 1194 - ABT 1233)

Siblings
____ Yolande (Jolan) (ABT 1215 - 12 Oct 1251)

Marriage To ____ Jaime I "The Conqueror" (1 Feb 1207 - 25 Jul 1276)
    m. 8 Sep 1235 Barcelona

Notes

Parents
____ Pedro II "the Catholic" (ABT 1175 - 14 Sep 1213)
DE MONTPELIER Maria (1182 - 21 Jan 1213)

Children by ____ Jaime I "The Conqueror" 1 Feb 1207 - 25 Jul 1276
OF ARAGON Yolanda (Violante) (8 Jun 1236 - 1301)
OF ARAGON Pedro III "the Great" (1239 - 2 Nov 1285)
OF ARAGON Isabel (1248 - 28 Jan 1271)

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