Background
Joanna was born at Daroca, the second of five children born into her father"s first marriage.
Joanna was born at Daroca, the second of five children born into her father"s first marriage.
Joanna"s father remarried to Violant of Bar, who like Martha bore many children but only one daughter lived to adulthood, the very much celebrated Yolande of Aragon, who played a large role in the Hundred Years" War between England and France. In Barcelona, on 4 June 1392, Joanna married Matthew of Foix, son of Roger Bernard II, Viscount of Castelbon. In 1396 King John died.
However, Sicilian nobles were causing unrest and Martin was kept in Sicily, a land he"d claimed through his mother Eleanor of Sicily.
In the meanwhile, Martin"s wife Maria de Luna claimed the throne on behalf of Martin and acted as his representative until he arrived in 1397. Still, the delay opened the way for more problems and quarrels to surface in Aragon.
His right to the throne was contested, by Matthew and Joanna, elder daughter of John I. However, Martin succeeded in quashing the invasion by the troops of Matthew and Joanna. Joanna"s younger half-sister Yolande claimed the throne with the support of her mother, despite Joanna still being alive.
Joanna, who failed to become Queen of Aragon, died childless in Valencia on September 1407.
After Martin"s death Yolande tried again to claim Aragon but failed. After his line died out, the succession would have gone to the grandchildren of Eleanor of Sicily, these were Joanna, who would have succeeded in 1401 and in 1407 Yolande. However, these lands instead went to Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria.
