1343 Deaths - Aimone, Count of Savoy, Robert of Naples, Rigdzin Kumaradza, Veera Ballala III, Philip III of Navarre, Albert IV (Paperback)

Chapters: Aimone, Count of Savoy, Robert of Naples, Rigdzin Kumaradza, Veera Ballala Iii, Philip Iii of Navarre, Albert Iv, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Hassan Kuchak, Beatrice of Hungary, Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi, Anna of Austria, Gaston Ii of Foix-Bearn, Reginald Ii of Guelders, Antony Bek, William Bell, Robert Parning, Ke Jiusi, John de Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp, Francesco I Manfredi, Anthony de Luci, Ulick Burke of Umhaill. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 63. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Robert of Anjou, known as Robert the Wise (Italian:, 1277 20 January 1343) was King of Naples, titular King of Jerusalem and Count of Provence and Forcalquier from 1309 to 1343, the central figure of Italian politics of his time. He was the third but eldest surviving son of King Charles II of Naples the Lame and Maria of Hungary. During his father's lifetime he was styled Duke of Calabria (12961309). During the Sicilian Vespers (1282), the child Robert was the hostage of Peter III of Aragon. After the death of his elder brother, Charles Martel d'Anjou, he became heir to the crown of Sicily; to obtain it, he married James II of Aragon's daughter Yolanda, in exchange for James's renouncing of Sicily. However, the Sicilian barons refused him and elected James' brother, Frederick III. The war continued, and with the Peace of Caltabellotta (1302) Robert and the Angevin dynasty lost Sicily forever, their rule limited to the south of peninsular Italy. Robert inherited the position of papal champion in Italy; his reign being blessed from the papal enclave within Robert's Provence, by the French Pope Clement V, who made him papal vicar in Romagna and Tuscany, where Robert intervened in the war of factions in Florence, accepted the offered signiory of that city, but had to abandon it due to Clem...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=204279