- Born in 1248 - Naples, Italy
- Deceased 5 May 1309 - Naples, Italy,aged 61 years old
Parents
- King Charles I Of Sicily 1227-1285
- Beatrice Of Provence 1231-
Spouses and children
- With Princess Maria Of Hungary 1257-1328 (Parents :King Stephen V Of Hungary 1239-1272 & Princess Elisabeth of the Cumans 1241-1291)with
King Charles Martel Of Hungary 1271-1295 With Princess Klementia Of Austria 1262-1293
Marguerite of Anjou And Maine 1273-1299 With King Charles III Of France 1270-1325- Saint Louis Of Toulouse 1275-1298
- King Robert I Of Naples 1277-1343 With Princess Sancha Of Majorca 1285-1345
King Robert I Of Naples 1277-1343 With Princess Yolanda Of Aragon 1269- - Philip I Of Taranto 1278-1332
- Princess Blanca Of Naples 1280-1310 With King James II Of Aragon 1267-1327
- Count Raymond Berengar Of Provance 1281-1307
- Prince John Of Naples 1283-1308/
- Prince Tristan Of Naples 1284-/1288
- Princess Leonora Of Naples 1289-1341 With King Frederick (II) III Of Sicily 1272-1337
- Princess Maria Of Naples 1290-1346
- Count Peter Of Gravina 1291-1315
- John Of Gravina 1294-1336
- Princess Beatrice Of Naples 1295-1321
Siblings
- Prince Louis Of Sicily 1248-
- Princess Blanche Of Sicily 1250-1269
- Princess Beatrice Of Sicily 1252-1275
- King Phillip Of Thessalonica 1256-1277
- Prince Robert Of Sicily 1258-1265
- Princess Elizabeth Or Maria Of Sicily 1261-1300
Notes
Individual Note
Charles II of Naples
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles II, known as the Lame (Fr. le Boiteux) (born c. 1248, died 5 May 1309, Naples) was the King of Naples and Sicily, titular king of Jerusalem, and Prince of Salerno. He was a son of Charles I of Naples.
He had been captured by Roger of Lauria in the naval battle at Naples in 1284. When his father died, he was still a prisoner of Peter III of Aragon.
In 1288 King Edward I of England mediated to make peace, and Charles was liberated only to retain Naples alone. Sicily was left to the Aragonese. Charles was also to induce his cousin Charles of Valois to renounce for twenty thousand pounds of silver the kingdom of Aragon which given him by Pope Martin IV to punish Peter for having invaded Sicily, but which the Valois had never effectively occupied.
Charles was then released, leaving three of his sons and sixty Provençal nobles as hostages, promising to pay 30,000 marks and to return a prisoner if the conditions were not fulfilled within three years. He went to Rieti, where the new Pope Nicholas IV, immediately absolved him from all the conditions he had sworn to observe, crowned him King of Sicily in 1289, and excommunicated King Alfonso III of Aragon. Charles of Valois, in alliance with Castile, prepared to take possession of Aragon. Alfonso, being hard pressed, had to promise to withdraw the troops he had sent to help his brother James in Sicily, to renounce all rights over the island, and pay a tribute to the Holy See.
Alfonso died childless in 1291 before the treaty could be carried out, and James took possession of Aragon, leaving the government of Sicily to the third brother Frederick.
The new Pope Boniface VIII, elected in 1294 at Naples under the auspices of King Charles, mediated between the latter and James, and a most dishonourable treaty was signed: James was to marry Charless daughter Bianca and was promised the investiture by the pope of Sardinia and Corsica, while he was to leave the Angevin a free hand in Sicily and even to assist him if the Sicilians resisted.
An attempt was made to bribe Frederick into consenting to this arrangement, but being backed up by his people he refused, and was afterwards crowned king of Sicily. The ensuring war was fought on land and sea but Charles, though aided by the pope, his cousin Charles of Valois and James, was unable to conquer the island, and his son the prince of Taranto was taken prisoner at the battle of La Falconara in 1299. Peace was at last made in 1302 at Caltabellotta. Charles gave up all rights to Sicily and agreed to the marriage of his daughter Leonora and King Frederick; the treaty was ratified by the pope in 1303. Charles spent his last years quietly in Naples, which city he improved and embellished. He died in August 1309, and was succeeded by his son Robert the Wise.
Charles II of Naples is known in Italian history books for one particularly crude episode, that is for his order to one of his commanders, Giovanni da Barletta, to destroy the town of Lucera, the last surviving Muslim community in Italy, as a way to celebrate the first Jubilaeum proclaimed by Pope Boniface VIII. The entire population of about 20,000 Arabs and Italian Muslims was exterminated in the summer of year 1300, ending five centuries of Muslim presence on Italian soil.
In 1270, he married Maria of Hungary (c. 1257 March 25, 1323), the daughter of Stephen V of Hungary. They had fourteen children:
Charles Martel d'Anjou, titular King of Hungary
Saint Louis of Toulouse (February 9, 1275, Nocera August 19, 1298, Chateau de Brignoles), Bishop of Toulouse
Robert of Naples, King of Naples
Philip I of Taranto, Prince of Achaea and Taranto, Despot of Romania, Lord of Durazzo, titular Emperor of Constantinople
Raymond Berengar (12811307), Count of Provence, Prince of Piedmont and Andria
John (1283 aft. March 16, 1308), a priest
Tristan (1284bef. 1288)
Peter (1291 August 29, 1315, Battle of Montecatini), Count of Gravina
John of Gravina (1294 April 5, 1336, Naples), Duke of Durazzo, Prince of Achaea, and Count of Gravina, married March 1318 (div 1321) Matilda of Hainault (November 29, 12931336), married November 14, 1321 Agnes of Périgord (d. 1345)
Marguerite (1273 December 31, 1299), Countess of Anjou and Maine, married at Corbeil August 16, 1290 Charles of Valois
Blanca (1280 October 14, 1310, Barcelona), married at Villebertran November 1, 1295 James II of Aragon
Leonora, (August 1289 August 9, 1341, Monastery of St. Nicholas, Arene), married at Messina May 17, 1302 Frederick III of Sicily
Maria (1290 c. 1346), married at Palma de Majorca September 20, 1304 Sancho I of Majorca, married 1326 Jaime de Ejerica (1298 April 1335)
Beatrice (1295 c. 1321), married April 1305 Azzo VIII, Margrave d'Este (d. 1308), married 1309 Bertrand III of Baux, Count of Andria (d. 1351)
Preceded by:
Charles I King of Naples
12851309 Succeeded by:
Robert
Prince of Achaea
12851289 Succeeded by:
Isabella
Count of Anjou
12851290 Succeeded by:
Charles III
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles II, known as the Lame (Fr. le Boiteux) (born c. 1248, died 5 May 1309, Naples) was the King of Naples and Sicily, titular king of Jerusalem, and Prince of Salerno. He was a son of Charles I of Naples.
He had been captured by Roger of Lauria in the naval battle at Naples in 1284. When his father died, he was still a prisoner of Peter III of Aragon.
In 1288 King Edward I of England mediated to make peace, and Charles was liberated only to retain Naples alone. Sicily was left to the Aragonese. Charles was also to induce his cousin Charles of Valois to renounce for twenty thousand pounds of silver the kingdom of Aragon which given him by Pope Martin IV to punish Peter for having invaded Sicily, but which the Valois had never effectively occupied.
Charles was then released, leaving three of his sons and sixty Provençal nobles as hostages, promising to pay 30,000 marks and to return a prisoner if the conditions were not fulfilled within three years. He went to Rieti, where the new Pope Nicholas IV, immediately absolved him from all the conditions he had sworn to observe, crowned him King of Sicily in 1289, and excommunicated King Alfonso III of Aragon. Charles of Valois, in alliance with Castile, prepared to take possession of Aragon. Alfonso, being hard pressed, had to promise to withdraw the troops he had sent to help his brother James in Sicily, to renounce all rights over the island, and pay a tribute to the Holy See.
Alfonso died childless in 1291 before the treaty could be carried out, and James took possession of Aragon, leaving the government of Sicily to the third brother Frederick.
The new Pope Boniface VIII, elected in 1294 at Naples under the auspices of King Charles, mediated between the latter and James, and a most dishonourable treaty was signed: James was to marry Charless daughter Bianca and was promised the investiture by the pope of Sardinia and Corsica, while he was to leave the Angevin a free hand in Sicily and even to assist him if the Sicilians resisted.
An attempt was made to bribe Frederick into consenting to this arrangement, but being backed up by his people he refused, and was afterwards crowned king of Sicily. The ensuring war was fought on land and sea but Charles, though aided by the pope, his cousin Charles of Valois and James, was unable to conquer the island, and his son the prince of Taranto was taken prisoner at the battle of La Falconara in 1299. Peace was at last made in 1302 at Caltabellotta. Charles gave up all rights to Sicily and agreed to the marriage of his daughter Leonora and King Frederick; the treaty was ratified by the pope in 1303. Charles spent his last years quietly in Naples, which city he improved and embellished. He died in August 1309, and was succeeded by his son Robert the Wise.
Charles II of Naples is known in Italian history books for one particularly crude episode, that is for his order to one of his commanders, Giovanni da Barletta, to destroy the town of Lucera, the last surviving Muslim community in Italy, as a way to celebrate the first Jubilaeum proclaimed by Pope Boniface VIII. The entire population of about 20,000 Arabs and Italian Muslims was exterminated in the summer of year 1300, ending five centuries of Muslim presence on Italian soil.
In 1270, he married Maria of Hungary (c. 1257 March 25, 1323), the daughter of Stephen V of Hungary. They had fourteen children:
Charles Martel d'Anjou, titular King of Hungary
Saint Louis of Toulouse (February 9, 1275, Nocera August 19, 1298, Chateau de Brignoles), Bishop of Toulouse
Robert of Naples, King of Naples
Philip I of Taranto, Prince of Achaea and Taranto, Despot of Romania, Lord of Durazzo, titular Emperor of Constantinople
Raymond Berengar (12811307), Count of Provence, Prince of Piedmont and Andria
John (1283 aft. March 16, 1308), a priest
Tristan (1284bef. 1288)
Peter (1291 August 29, 1315, Battle of Montecatini), Count of Gravina
John of Gravina (1294 April 5, 1336, Naples), Duke of Durazzo, Prince of Achaea, and Count of Gravina, married March 1318 (div 1321) Matilda of Hainault (November 29, 12931336), married November 14, 1321 Agnes of Périgord (d. 1345)
Marguerite (1273 December 31, 1299), Countess of Anjou and Maine, married at Corbeil August 16, 1290 Charles of Valois
Blanca (1280 October 14, 1310, Barcelona), married at Villebertran November 1, 1295 James II of Aragon
Leonora, (August 1289 August 9, 1341, Monastery of St. Nicholas, Arene), married at Messina May 17, 1302 Frederick III of Sicily
Maria (1290 c. 1346), married at Palma de Majorca September 20, 1304 Sancho I of Majorca, married 1326 Jaime de Ejerica (1298 April 1335)
Beatrice (1295 c. 1321), married April 1305 Azzo VIII, Margrave d'Este (d. 1308), married 1309 Bertrand III of Baux, Count of Andria (d. 1351)
Preceded by:
Charles I King of Naples
12851309 Succeeded by:
Robert
Prince of Achaea
12851289 Succeeded by:
Isabella
Count of Anjou
12851290 Succeeded by:
Charles III
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