Petronila de Aragón

Titular queen of Aragon

Events

Date of Birth: 29 June 1136.

Place of Birth: Barbastro.

The date and place are given by Salazar y Acha (p. 117). Ubieto Arteta (p. 131) and by Sarasa Sánchez give 11 August.

Date of Death: 13 October 1173.

The date is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 118). The Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa (“Petronila”) gives 15 October 1173. Ubieto Arteta (p. 201) states that Petronila died immediately after making her will on 14 October 1173.

Place of Burial: Barcelona.

Relationships

Father: Ramiro II “el Monje”, king of Aragon and Navarre.

This relationship is given by Sarasa Sánchez, by Salazar y Acha (p. 118), and by Leroy.

Mother: Agnès de Poitou.

This relationship is given by Sarasa Sánchez, by Salazar y Acha (p. 118), and by Leroy.

Spouse: Ramón Berenguer IV “el Santo”, count of Barcelona. Affianced 11 August 1137. Married 1151.

This relationship is given by Sarasa Sánchez, by Salazar y Acha (p. 118), and by Leroy.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Pedro (born 4 April 1152 - died 1155).

Ramón (March 1157 - 25 April 1195), later Alfonso II “el Casto”, king of Aragon. Married Sancha, daughter of Alfonso VIII, king of Castile, Leon, and Galicia, on 18 January 1174 in Zaragoza.

Pedro (1159 - 5 April 1181), later Raymond Berenger III, count of Provence.

Dulce (about 1160 - 1 September 1198) married, in 1175, Sancho Martino de Portugal, later Sancho I “o Pobledor”, king of Portugal.

Sancho (about 1162 - 1225), count of Provence from 1181 - 1185, married (1) Ermesinda de Rocaberti; married (2) Sancha Núñez de Lara.

References

Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).

Leroy, B. Navarra genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.

“Petronila” in Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa (el Periódico de Aragón: 2000; updated 2008).

Sarasa Sánchez, Esteban. “Petronila de Aragón” in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).

Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).

Ubieto Arteta, Antonio. Historia de Aragón. Creación y desarrollo de la Corona de Aragón. (Zaragoza: Anúbar, 1987).

Online Biographies

Petronila de Aragón (Diccionario Biográfico electrónico; Real Academia de la Historia)