Article
A Queen’s Task: Violant de Bar and the Experience of Royal Motherhood in Fourteenth-Century Aragón
La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Date
1-1-1998
Abstract
In a letter to Pere III dated 11 March 1381, the fifteen-year-old duchess of Gerona, Violant de Bar, joyously announces her first pregnancy: "notifich a Ia vostra senyoria per tal com se que n'haurets plaer que'm s6 feta prenys, e'm trob be ab lo prenyat, grades ne vajen a Deu" (ACA, reg. 1821, fol. 68<). 1 So begins her procreative trial as wife of the king's first-born son,Joan, heir to the powerful Crown of Aragon. Fifteen years later, we find King Joan dead without a legitimate male heir and the process of his brother Marti's succession in great confusion because, according to historian E.L. Miron,
Copyright Owner
The Ohio State University
Copyright Date
1998
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Dawn Bratsch-Prince. "A Queen’s Task: Violant de Bar and the Experience of Royal Motherhood in Fourteenth-Century Aragón" La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Vol. 27 (1998) p. 21 - 34 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dawn_bratsch-prince/8/
This article is from La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 27 (1998): 21. Posted with permission.