Maria of Naples was a daughter of Charles II of Naples

Charles II of Naples

Charles II, known as "the Lame" was King of Naples, King of Albania, Prince of Salerno, Prince of Achaea and Count of Anjou.-Biography:...

 and his wife Maria of Hungary. She was the wife of Sancho I of Majorca

Sancho I of Majorca

Sancho , called the Pacific or the Peaceful , was King of Majorca, Count of Roussillon and Cerdanya, and Lord of Montpellier from 1311 to his death. He was the second son of James II and Escalaramunda de Foix, daughter of Roger IV, count of Foix...

 and Jaime de Ejerica.

Family

Maria was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou

Capetian House of Anjou

The Capetian House of Anjou, also known as the House of Anjou-Sicily and House of Anjou-Naples, was a royal house and cadet branch of the direct House of Capet. Founded by Charles I of Sicily, a son of Louis VIII of France, the Capetian king first ruled the Kingdom of Sicily during the 13th century...

. Her paternal grandparents were Charles I of Sicily

Charles I of Sicily

Charles I , known also as Charles of Anjou, was the King of Sicily by conquest from 1266, though he had received it as a papal grant in 1262 and was expelled from the island in the aftermath of the Sicilian Vespers of 1282...

 and Beatrice of Provence

Beatrice of Provence

Beatrice of Provence , was a countess regnant of Provence. She was also a Queen consort of Sicily by marriage to King Charles I of Sicily....

. Her maternal grandparents were Stephen V of Hungary

Stephen V of Hungary

Stephen V , was King of Hungary from 1270 to 1272.-Early years:...

 (d. 1272) and his wife, Elisabeth the Cuman, who was daughter of Zayhan of Kuni, a chief of the Cuman tribe and had been a pagan before her marriage.

Maria was thirteenth of fourteen children. Apart from one brother all of the children lived to adulthood. Maria's siblings included: Charles Martel of Anjou

Charles Martel of Anjou

Charles Martel of the Angevin dynasty, also known as Charles I Martel, was the eldest son of king Charles II of Naples and Maria of Hungary, the daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary....

, Saint Louis of Toulouse, Robert I of Naples, Philip I of Taranto

Philip I of Taranto

Philip I of Taranto : of the Angevin house, was titular Emperor of Constantinople , despot of Epirus, King of Albania, Prince of Achaea and Taranto, and Lord of Durazzo....

, Margaret, Countess of Anjou and Maine, Blanche, Queen of Aragon

Blanche of Anjou

Blanche of Anjou was the second Queen consort of James II of Aragon. She was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou, she is also known as Blanche of Naples-Family:...

 and Eleanor, Queen of Sicily

Eleanor of Anjou

Eleanor of Naples was the Queen consort of Frederick III of Sicily. She was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou by birth.-Family:She was the third daughter of Charles II of Naples and Mary of Hungary....

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Life

Maria firstly married at Palma de Majorca September 20, 1304 (by proxy) and 1308 (in person) to Sancho I of Majorca

Sancho I of Majorca

Sancho , called the Pacific or the Peaceful , was King of Majorca, Count of Roussillon and Cerdanya, and Lord of Montpellier from 1311 to his death. He was the second son of James II and Escalaramunda de Foix, daughter of Roger IV, count of Foix...

. He was a son of James II of Majorca

James II of Majorca

James II was King of Majorca and Lord of Montpellier from 1276 until his death. He was the second son of James I of Aragon and his wife Violant, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary...

. The marriage produced no children. This lack threatened the survival of the young independent state. Sancho willed the kingdom to his nephew James

James III of Majorca

James III , called the Rash or the Unfortunate, son of Ferdinand of Majorca and Isabelle de Sabran, heiress of Principality of Achaea, was the King of Majorca from 1324 to 1344. He was the last independent king of Majorca of the House of Barcelona.James was born at Catania...

 to prevent it from falling to the Crown of Aragon

Aragon

Aragon is a modern autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. Located in northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces : Huesca, Zaragoza, and Teruel. Its capital is Zaragoza...

. Sancho died in 1324 leaving Maria a widow.

Two years after the death of her first husband in 1326, Maria remarried to Jaime de Ejerica, a member of the House of Barcelona

House of Barcelona

The House of Barcelona was a medieval dynasty that ruled the County of Barcelona continuously from 878 and the Crown of Aragon from 1137 . From the male part they descend from the Bellonids, the descendants of Wifred the Hairy...

. Maria was imprisoned at Jerica

Jérica

Jérica is a town in the Castellón province of Valencian Community, Spain. It is in the comarca of Alto Palancia.- Geography :The municipality has an area of 78.30 km², is crossed by the river Palancia, and an area in the south is part of the Calderona mountain range...

, Aragón 1331 by Alfonso IV of Aragon

Alfonso IV of Aragon

Alfonso IV, called the Kind was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona from 1327 to his death. He was the second son of James II and Blanche of Anjou...

, she was later transferred to Valencia. Her brother Robert I of Naples arranged her release, and she left Valencia after June 1337 for Barjals in Provence

Provence

Provence ; Provençal: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm) is a region of south eastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative région of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...

. Maria did not have any known children with Jaime, she died in 1346 or 1347

Ancestry