Bianca Lancia d'agliano

• Preferred Name: Bianca Lancia d'agliano^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: LD7M-NZ4
  
• Death: 1246 in Gioia Del Colle, Taranto, Puglia, Italy at LATI: N0.55 LONG: E7.28 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Birth: 1210 in Agliano, Asti, Piemonte, Italien at LATI: N4.7877 LONG: E0.2474
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Bianca Lancia d'Agliano (also called Beatrice and Blanca; c. 1210-c. 1246) was an Italian noblewoman. She was the mistress and later the last wife of the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick II. The marriage was conducted while she was on her deathbed, therefore it was considered non-canonical.
  
  Family
  Possibly born in Agliano in Piedmont, where her ancestors of the Ghibelline Lancia (or Lanza) noble family, so-called since Manfred I (fl. 1160-1214) had been lancifer pikeman of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, served as margraves. There is no source which definitively states who her parents were, historians have offered three theories that she was a granddaughter of Manfred I Lancia:
  
  1.) as daughter of his daughter (maybe also named Bianca), by a son (name unknown) of Guglielmo di Moncucco and Belda di Agliano.
  
  2.) as daughter of his son Bonifacio di Agliano by an unknown wife.
  
  3.) as daughter of his son Manfred II, possible from a marriage to a lady called Bianca, of the Maletta family.
  
  If she was a daughter of Manfred II, she had seven siblings: four brothers (Manfred III, Guglielmo, Galvano and Frederick) and three sisters (Beatrice, Agnes and Isabella).
  
  Relationship with Frederick II
  Bianca lived most of her life in Lancia Castle of Brolo, the ancestral residence of her family, the Castello Normanno in Paternò and the castle of Gioia del Colle. She met Frederick II, who was then married to Yolande of Jerusalem, in 1225 at Agliano near Asti. Thenceforth, it is said, the two maintained a romantic relationship.
  
  According to some historians, Bianca was the only true love of Frederick's life; others consider this a romantic exaggeration. It was certainly beneficial to the interests of the Lancia family, who were favoured by the Emperor with political posts in Italy (Manfredo III was appointed Imperial Vicar of the Holy Roman Empire's northern Italian territories and Podesta of Alessandria, Milan and Chieri; Galvano became Imperial Vicar of Tuscany, Podesta of Padova, Prince of Salerno, Count of Fondi and Grand Marshal of Sicily; and Frederick was appointed Count of Squillace and Viceroy of Apulia). Nonetheless, the relationship of Bianca and Frederick was the longest to all the affairs of the Emperor.
  
  After the death of Isabella of England, Frederick's third wife, in 1241, he endowed Bianca with the castle of Monte Sant'Angelo, located in the cities of Vieste and Siponto. By the terms of the will of William II of Sicily, the castle was the traditional dower of the Sicilian queens consort.
  
  Bianca died either in the castle of Paternò or the castle of Gioia del Colle.
  
  Marriage and children
  The Chronicle of Salimbene di Adam, and also Matthew of Paris claimed that a "confirmatio matrimonii in articulo mortis" ("marriage ceremony in the moments of death") took place between Bianca and Frederick when she was dying. Bianca, apparently, desired the marriage for the salvation of her soul and the safety of their children's future. This marriage however was not deemed canonical by the Church, perhaps due to the fact that Frederick and Bianca's children were all born out of wedlock.
  
  1.) Frederick and Bianca had three children together:
  
  2.) Constance (1230-1307), who married the Emperor of Nicea, John Vatatzes, and thereupon her name changed to Anna.
  
  3.) Manfred (1232-1266), who succeeded his father as ruler of Sicily (initially as regent, before usurping the throne for himself).
  
  Violante (1233-1264), who married Richard Sanseverino, Count of Caserta.
  
  Death
  It is not known exactly when she died. There are several conflicting reports. This date lingers in various reference works but appears based only on the assumption that she died after the birth of her last child, and before the marriage of her husband to his next wife.
  
  There are credible reports that she married Frederick while she was on her deathbed, and that her son was 12 at this time. Bianca may have died a short while before the wedding of her daughter to John Vatatzes in 1244. One source states that she died 20 years after the start of her relationship with Frederick, however the same source states that she died 20 years before events that were occurring in 1256.
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/MONFERRATO,%20SALUZZO,%20SAVONA.htm#BiancaLanciaMistrEmpFriedrich as of 6/8/2016
  
  BIANCA Lancia ([1205/12][804]-[1233/34]). The Thomas Tusci Gesta Imperator
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SICILY.htm#Manfreddied1266B as of 3/28/2016
  
  MANFRED von Hohenstaufen, son of Emperor FRIEDRICH II & his mistress Bianca Lancia (Venosa 1232-killed in battle
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998.
  
  === !#11400-p26; Concubine of Frederick, of ===
  !#11400-p26; Concubine of Frederick, of the family of the Counts of Loreto;
  
  === Ancestral File Number: 8HRX-TT ===
  Ancestral File Number: 8HRX-TT
  
  === Still Living. ===
  Still Living.
  
  === !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat ===
  !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM); ; June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998; ; , Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === !Ancestral File 1996 ===
  !Ancestral File 1996
  
  === Turton: The Plantagenet Ancestry P. 36 ===
  Turton: The Plantagenet Ancestry P. 36
  
  === THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 ===
  THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.34, 36, 60; BETHAMIS GENEALOGICAL TABLES (GS NUMBER Q929.2 B465G) TAB 351, 352; SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.45, 48; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
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  === ! Europasche Stamtafeln neue folge vol. ===
  ! Europasche Stamtafeln neue folge vol. 2 tafel 190;
  
  === KRAENTZLER,P. 24 ===
  KRAENTZLER,P. 24

1. Manfred Marquess King of Sicily, b. ABT 1232 in Palermo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy     d. 26 FEB 1266 in Benevento, Benevento, Campania, Italy

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bianca Lancia -
   Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222795
   
2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bianca Lancia -
   Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222797
   
3. Title: Bianca Lancia
   Author: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianca_Lancia
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/103541155;
   Note: Bianca Lancia d'Agliano (also called Beatrice and Blanca; c. 1210 – c. 1246) was an Italian noblewoman.[1] She was the mistress and later the last wife of the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick II.[1] The marriage was conducted while she was on her deathbed, therefore it was considered non-canonical.
   
4. Title: Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianca_Lancia;
   
5. Title: Roots Web World Connect Project
   Author: Roots Web World Connect Project, database: :3281087.
   
6. Title: Royal Genealogies (Volume II)
   Author: James Anderson, D.D., Royal Genealogies (Volume II), Table 438, Page 690 (right center).