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 St. Elizabeth of Aragon Statue in the Church of the Mafra Palace, Portugal | |
| Born | 1271 |
| Died | 1336 |
| Feast | July 4 |
| Aragonese royalty |
| House of Barcelona |
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| Alfonso II |
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Children include Peter (King of Aragon; Count of Barcelona) Constance (Holy Roman Empress; Queen consort of Hungary, Germany and Sicily) Alfonso (Count of Provence) Eleanor (Countess consort of Toulouse) Sancha (Countess consort of Toulouse) |
| Peter II |
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Children include James (King of Aragon, Valencia and Majorca; Count of Barcelona) |
| James I |
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Children include Violant (Queen consort of Castile and Leon) Constance (Lady consort of Villena) Peter (King of Aragon, Valencia and Sicily; Count of Barcelona) James (King of Majorca) Isabella (Queen consort of France) Sancho (Archbishop of Toledo) |
| Peter III |
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Children include Alfonso (King of Aragon and Valencia) James (King of Sicily, Aragon, Valencia, Sardinia and Corsica; Count of Barcelona) Elizabeth (Queen consort of Portugal) Frederick (King of Sicily) |
| Alfonso III |
| James II |
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Children include James (monk) Alfonso (King of Aragon, Valencia, Sardinia and Corsica; Count of Barcelona) Maria (Lady of Cameros) John (Archbishop of Toledo and Tarragona; Latin Patriarch of Alexandria) Isabella (Queen consort of Germany) |
| Alfonso IV |
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Children include Constance (Queen consort of Majorca) Peter (King of Aragon, Valencia and Majorca; Count of Barcelona) James (Count of Urgell) |
| Peter IV |
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Children include Constance (Queen consort of Sicily) Joanna (Countess consort of Ampurias) John (King of Aragon, Valencia and Majorca; Count of Barcelona; Duke of Athens and Neopatria) Martin (King of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica; Count of Barcelona; Duke of Montblanc) Eleanor (Queen consort of Castile and Leon) Isabella (Countess consort of Urgell) |
| John I |
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Children include Joanna (Countess consort of Foix) Yolande (Queen consort of Naples; Duchess consort of Anjou; Countess consort of Provence, Maine and Piedmont) |
| Martin |
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Children include Martin (King of Sicily; Count of Luna; Lord of Segorbe) |
St. Elisabeth of Aragon (1271–4 July, 1336) (Elisabet in Catalan, Isabel in Portuguese) was queen consort of Portugal and is, like her great-aunt St. Elisabeth of Hungary who had been canonized in 1235 for her miracles in the Holy Roman Empire, a Saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She is also known as Rainha Santa Isabel in Portuguese (Queen Saint Elisabeth).
Marriage
She showed an early enthusiasm for religion: she said the full Divine Office daily, fasted and did other penances, and attended twice daily choral masses.
Elizabeth was married very early to Denis of Portugal, a poet, and known as Rei Lavrador, or the farmer king, because he planted a large pine forest, near Leiria. The wood from these trees would later be used to make the boats during the discoveries. Elizabeth quietly pursued the regular religious practices of her maidenhood, and was devoted to the poor and sick. Naturally, such a life was a reproach to many around her, and caused ill will in some quarters. A popular story is told of how her husband's jealousy was roused by an evil-speaking page; of how he condemned the queen's supposed guilty accomplice to a cruel death; and was finally convinced of her innocence by the strange accidental substitution of her accuser for the intended victim.
They had two children, a daughter Constance, who married Ferdinand IV of Castile, and a son Afonso (later Afonso IV of Portugal). The latter so greatly resented the favours shown to the king's illegitimate sons that he rebelled, and in 1323 war was declared between him and his father. Elisabeth, however, reconciled her husband and son, and is known in consequence as the "peacemaker".
Dowager Queen
Denis died in 1325, his son succeeding him. Elisabeth then retired to a convent of the Poor Clares which she had founded at Coimbra, where she took the habit of the Franciscan Order, wishing to devote the rest of her life to the poor and sick in obscurity. But she was called forth to act once more as peacemaker. In 1336 Afonso IV marched his troops against the Alfonso XI of Castile, to whom he had married his daughter Maria, and who had neglected and ill-treated her. In spite of age and weakness, the queen dowager insisted on hurrying to Estremoz, where the two kings' armies were drawn up. She again stopped the fighting and caused terms of peace to be arranged. But the exertion brought on her final illness; and as soon as her mission was fulfilled she died of a fever on July 8, 1336.
Elizabeth was buried at Coimbra, and miracles were said to have followed her death. She was canonized by Pope Urban VIII in 1625, and her feast is kept on July 8 on the traditional Catholic calendar and on the 4th of July on the new calendar.
Family and Ancestors
She was named after her great-aunt St. Elisabeth of Thuringia, but is known in Portuguese by "Isabel". She was a younger sister of Alfonso III of Aragon and James II of Aragon. She was also an older sister of Frederick III of Sicily.
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| Preceded byBeatrice of Castile | Queen Consort of Portugal 1282 - 1325 |
Succeeded byBeatrice of Castile |
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help)
Montalembert, Comte de "St.Elisabeth of Thuringia", (1836) New York: D&J Sadler& Co.
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