Tenure 1380–1395 Name Violant Bar Father Robert, Duke of Bar House County of Montbeliard | Mother Marie of Valois Children Yolande of Aragon Religion Roman Catholicism | |
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Issue
Detail Yolande, Queen of Naples Died July 3, 1431, Barcelona, Spain Spouse John I of Aragon (m. 1380–1396) Parents Robert, Duke of Bar, Marie of France, Duchess of Bar Similar People John I of Aragon, Yolande of Aragon, Peter IV of Aragon, Marie of Anjou, Rene of Anjou | ||
Violant of Bar (c. 1365 – 3 July 1431) was queen consort of Aragon by marriage to John I of Aragon. She served as "Queen-Lieutenant" (regent) of Aragon during in the place of her spouse from 1388 until 1395.
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Life
She was the daughter of Robert I, Duke of Bar and Marie of Valois. Violante was the eighth of eleven children. She was married in 1380 at the age of 15 to John, Duke of Girona, the heir apparent to the throne of Aragon, thus becoming Duchess of Girona and Countess of Cervera.
Her husband became King of Aragon in 1387. He was often ill, and Violante wielded considerable administrative power on his behalf: in 1388, she was queen-lieutenant and governed Aragon as such for seven years. She transformed the Aragonese court into a center of French culture. She especially cultivated the talents of Provençal troubadours (poet-musicians).
After John's death in 1395, she dedicated herself to the education of her only surviving child, Yolande. Yolande and her sons claimed the Kingdom of Aragon after John's death.
Violant died in Barcelona on 13 August 1431 at the age of sixty-six.