Violant of Aragon

Violant of Aragon (8 June 1236–1301) was queen of Castile and León as the wife of Alfonso X the Wise, whom she married at Burgos in January 1249. A daughter of James I of Aragon and Violant of Hungary, she founded the convent of San Pablo in Valladolid in 1276.

After her eldest son Ferdinand de la Cerda died in 1275, Alfonso named their second son Sancho as heir, but Violant defended the rights of Ferdinand's sons, placing them under the protection of her brother Peter III at Játiva in Aragon. She later lived mostly in Aragon and died at Roncesvalles in 1301 while returning from Rome.