Name Antonia Baux | Parents Francis of Baux Died January 23, 1374 | |
Role Francis of Baux's daughter Spouse Frederick the Simple (m. 1373) People also search for Frederick the Simple | ||
Great-grandparents Bertrand II des Baux Grandfathers Bertrand III of Baux | ||
Antonia of Baux (Italian: Antonia del Balzo; c. 1355 – 23 January 1374) was the second Queen consort of Frederick III, King of Sicily.
Antonia was a daughter of Francis of Baux and his second wife Marguerite of Taranto. Antonia's only other sibling by her father's marriage to Marguerite was James of Baux, the last titular Latin Emperor of Constantinople. Her paternal grandparents were Bertrand III of Baux, Count of Andria and Marguerite d'Aulnay. Her maternal grandparents were Philip I of Taranto and Catherine II of Valois, Princess of Achaea.
On 26 November 1373, Antonia married Frederick III the Simple. The bride was approximately seventeen years old and the groom thirty-one. He had a daughter from a previous marriage but no male heirs. This marriage sealed the peace between Naples and Sicily, agreed the prior. Antonia died childless after only two years of marriage. Frederick never remarried and died in 1377. He was succeeded by his only daughter Maria of Sicily.