Peter of Aragon ( an, Pero, es, Pedro, ca, Pere; 4 May 1152 - c.1164Bruno Aguilera Barchet, ''A History of Western Public Law: Between Nation and State'', (Springer, 2015), 159.) was the oldest child of Queen

Petronilla of Aragon Petronilla (29 June/11 August 1136 – 15 October 1173), whose name is also spelled Petronila or Petronella ( Aragonese: ''Peyronela'' or ''Payronella'', and ca, Peronella), was Queen of Aragon from the abdication of her father, Ramiro II, ...

and her husband,

Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona Ramon Berenguer IV (; c. 1114 – 6 August 1162, Anglicized Raymond Berengar IV), sometimes called ''the Saint'', was the count of Barcelona who brought about the union of the County of Barcelona with the Kingdom of Aragon to form the Crown of Ara ...

. He inherited, after his father's death, Cerdagne, Carcassonne and Narbonne.Fredric L. Cheyette, ''Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours'', (Cornell University Press, 2001), 253. Not much information about Peter survives, but it is known for sure that he existed. The ''Corónicas Navarras'' names all of Petronilla's children, in order, as ''don Pedro...el rey don Alfonso, que ovo nombre Remón Belenguer et el conte don Pedro de Provença et el conte don Sancho et a la muller del rey don Sancho de Portugal''., p. 31 Peter was named

Count of Cerdanya The County of Cerdanya ( ca, Comtat de Cerdanya, ; la, Comitatus Ceritaniae; es, Condado de Cerdaña, french: Comté de Cerdagne) was one of the Catalan counties formed in the last decades of the 8th century by the Franks in the ''Marca Hispanica' ...

Carcassonne Carcassonne (, also , , ; ; la, Carcaso) is a French fortified city in the department of Aude, in the region of Occitanie. It is the prefecture of the department. Inhabited since the Neolithic, Carcassonne is located in the plain of the ...

and

Narbonne Narbonne (, also , ; oc, Narbona ; la, Narbo ; Late Latin:) is a commune in France, commune in Southern France in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Regions of France, region. It lies from Paris in the Aude Departments of Franc ...

. Some sources state that Peter died in 1157, sometime after King

Alfonso VII of León and Castile Alfonso VII (1 March 110521 August 1157), called the Emperor (''el Emperador''), became the King of Galicia in 1111 and King of León and Castile in 1126. Alfonso, born Alfonso Raimúndez, first used the title Emperor of All Spain, alongside hi ...

died. This year of death is also likely since the third son, also named Peter, was born in 1158. It is certain that the elder son Peter was dead by 18 July 1164, as his mother

abdicated Abdication is the act of formally relinquishing monarchical authority. Abdications have played various roles in the succession procedures of monarchies. While some cultures have viewed abdication as an extreme abandonment of duty, in other societ ...

in favour of his younger brother, Ramon, rather than Peter, who had been named heir of Aragon at birth. The ''Corónicas Navarras'' also stated that Peter died in

Huesca Huesca (; an, Uesca) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the autonomous community of Aragon. It is also the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and of the comarca of Hoya de Huesca. In 2009 it had a population of 52,059, almo ...

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{{reflist, 2 1152 births 1157 deaths Year of death unknown Counts of Cerdanya Counts of Carcassonne Counts of Barcelona House of Barcelona Royalty and nobility who died as children Sons of monarchs Heirs apparent who never acceded