Joanna of Aragon, Countess of Empúries

For other people named Joanna of Aragon, see Joanna of Aragon (disambiguation).

Joanna of Aragon (7 November 1344, Barcelona - 1385, Castelló d'Empúries) was a Catalan noblewoman, the second child of Peter IV of Aragon and his first wife Maria of Navarre. She was an Infanta of Aragon by birth and Countess of Empúries by her marriage. She was a member of the House of Barcelona.

Joanna of Aragon
Countess consort of Empúries
Tenure	1373-1385
Born	7 November 1344 Barcelona, Principality of Catalonia
Died	1385 (aged 40–41) Castelló d'Empúries, Empúries, Catalonia
Burial	Poblet Monastery
Spouse	John I, Count of Empúries
Issue	John II, Count of Empúries Peter, Count of Empúries
House	Barcelona
Father	Peter IV of Aragon
Mother	Maria of Navarre

Marriage

The tomb of Joanna

On the 19 June 1373, Joanna married John I, Count of Empúries. This was his second marriage after the death of his first wife Blanche of Sicily. Joanna was 29 at the time of the marriage, she was considered an older bride.

Many members of her family showed dislike to her father's fourth wife Queen Sibila, due to her low ranking birth and her family's interference at court. Joanna's husband John came into conflict with Sibila, and then rebelled against Joanna's father. The marriage of Peter and Sibila also led to a strain between himself and his three surviving children: Joanna, John and Martin.

Joanna and John were married for twelve years, in this time they had two sons:

1. John (1375–1401), succeeded his father as Count of Empúries
2. Peter (d.1402), succeeded his brother, however only reigned for a year.

Joanna died aged forty or forty-one in 1385. Her husband died thirteen years later in 1398. She is buried at Poblet Monastery.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Joanna of Aragon, Countess of Empúries
8. James II of Aragon 4. Alfonso IV of Aragon 9. Blanche of Anjou 2. Peter IV of Aragon 10. Gombau d'Entença 5. Teresa d'Entença 11. Constança d'Antillón 1. Joanna of Aragon 12. Louis of Évreux 6. Philip III of Navarre 13. Margaret of Artois 3. Maria of Navarre 14. Louis X of France 7. Joan II of Navarre 15. Margaret of Burgundy