Eleanor of Anjou

Eleanor of Anjou (1289–1341), third daughter of Charles II of Naples and Mary of Hungary, was a bride whose wedding helped end a war. Her childhood marriage to Philippe II de Toucy was dissolved by the pope in 1300 because the two were related.

On 17 May 1302 she married Frederick III, King of Sicily, whom her father had long fought. The wedding was part of the diplomacy behind the Peace of Caltabellotta later that year, which gave Frederick the island and her father the mainland kingdom.

She bore Frederick nine children, including his successor Peter II and sons who held the duchy of Athens. Widowed in 1337, she died at a monastery in Catania on 9 August 1341.