Not to be confused with Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily.
Elvira of Sicily (died in 1231) was a member of the House of Hauteville who claimed the throne of the Kingdom of Sicily. She is known by an exceptional number of names, including Albinia, Elvira, Maria, Albidina and Blanche.[1]
ElviraofSicily (died in 1231) was a member of the House of Hauteville who claimed the throne of the Kingdom ofSicily. She is known by an exceptional...
daughter of Hermenegildo Gutiérrez and wife of Ordoño II of León Elviraof Castile, Queen of León (965–1017) Elviraof Castile, Queen ofSicily (c. 1100–1135)...
the second king ofSicily, ruling from his father's death in 1154 to his own in 1166. He was the fourth son of Roger II and Elviraof Castile. William's...
King ofSicily and Africa, son of Roger I ofSicily and successor to his brother Simon. He began his rule as Count ofSicily in 1105, became Duke of Apulia...
Sancha of León, and granddaughter-namesake ofElvira Menéndez, and also an aunt ofElviraof Castile, Queen ofSicily. She made an important donation of lands...
monarchs ofSicily ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom ofSicily in 1130 until the "perfect fusion" in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1816...
taking arms was Walter III of Brienne who wished to secure his claim to Taranto by virtue of his marriage to ElviraofSicily. The need for the crusade...
it was her dower. Walter III of Brienne died in June 1205 while fighting in southern Italy. His widow, ElviraofSicily, gave birth to a posthumous son...
been given variously as Mary, Elvira, Albinia or Blanche. Wikimedia Commons has media related to William III ofSicily. Edward Wheatley states this was...
who had been claiming the Kingdom ofSicily since Tancred's accession. In 1191 Henry attempted to invade Sicily but failed and retreated, while Constance...
Elvira) Mary of Lecce of Altavilla, daughter of King Tancred ofSicily (Tancred of Hauteville, Count of Lecce). Title confiscated at the death of Walter;...
The County ofSicily, also known as County ofSicily and Calabria, was a Norman state comprising the islands ofSicily and Malta and part of Calabria from...
depicting the life of women in Sicily. This work, and other writings of Mancuso, have caused some to consider her ante-litteram feminist. Elvira was born in...
stars Elvira Camarrone and Roberto Christian as two high school students who fall in love after meeting at a regatta-oriented summer camp on Sicily, though...
Margaret of Navarre (French: Marguerite, Spanish: Margarita, Italian: Margherita) (c. 1135 – 12 August 1183) was Queen ofSicily as the wife of William...
seduces, marries, and abandons Elvira, discarded as just another romantic conquest. Later, he invites to dinner the statue of a man whom he recently had murdered;...
Beatrice of Rethel (1130/35 – 30 March 1185) was a French noblewoman and Queen ofSicily as the third wife of Roger II. Beatrice was born in 1130 or 1135...
Elvira Colonnese (September 9, 1859 — June 10, 1949) was an Italian soprano opera singer. Colonnese was from Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the niece...
This is a list of consorts of the Kingdom ofSicily. Many Kings ofSicily had more than one wife; they may have divorced their wife or she might have died...
Alfonso had two successive wives of this name, with Zaida being the second Queen Isabel. Alfonso's daughters Elvira and Sancha, were by Queen Isabel,...
article about Sibylla of Burgundy, queen ofSicily. For her namesake, see Sibylla of Burgundy, Duchess of Burgundy. Sibylla of Burgundy (1126 – 16 September...
Eremburga of Mortain (Eremburge de Mortain) was the second wife of Count Roger I ofSicily and thus the second Sicilian countess. She is very obscure and...
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