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unusual facts about House of Barcelona



Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Cyprus

She was a member of the House of Barcelona as the daughter of Peter of Aragon and his wife Joan of Foix.

Emirate of Sicily

The House of Hohenstaufen and their successors (Capetian House of Anjou and Aragonese House of Barcelona) gradually "Latinized" Sicily over the course of two centuries, and this social process laid the groundwork for the introduction of Catholicism (as opposed to Eastern Orthodoxy).


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Árpád dynasty

King Emeric married Constance of Aragon, from the house of Barcelona, and he may have followed Barcelonese (Catalan) patterns when he chose his coat-of-arms that would become the Árpáds' familiar badget (an escutcheon barry of eight Gules and Argent).

Roquefeuil

Roquefeuil Versols, a family, offshoot of the House of Barcelona, Spain

Thorbjorn Paternò Castello

The Libro d'Oro lists the Paternò family as an historical family for more than a thousand years which traces its origins to Prince Robert of Embrun and to the Sovereign House of Barcelona and Provence which arrived in Sicily in 1060 as part of the entourage of King Roger, seizing the Castle and Lordship of Paternò therefrom it assumed its name.