Charles II of Anjou

See also: Charles of Anjou, Charles

Charles II of Anjou , known as the Lame , born in 1254, dead the May 6th 1309 with Naples, titrated as of its birth prince de Salerne, then, after the death of his/her parents, king de Naples (or Peninsular Sicily), count de Provence, of Anjou and of Maine of 1285 with 1309, wire of Charles Ier of Anjou and Beatrice of Provence.

  • King de Naples of 1285 with 1309

  • king de Jérusalem
  • Count d' Anjou of 1285 with 1290.
  • Count of Maine of 1285 with 1290.
  • Count de Provence
  • Count de Forcalquier

Biography

With died of his mother, he was count of Provence and controlled this county. After the Sicilian Vespers, it joined his/her father with Naples and assumed regency while his/her father went in France to arm a fleet. During an engagement against the fleet aragon ease ordered by Roger de Lauria, there was made prisoner in 1284 and remained captive with Barcelona during four years. When his/her father died, it was in captivity. Released, it was made crown king de Naples. He unnecessarily endeavoured to reconquer Sicily which his/her father had lost; but it controlled its people with more softness and of wisdom that him. He renonça with the fight, in spite of the quarrelsome pressures of the pope Nicolas V and the count d' Artois, and concludes a truce in 1289 with Aragon and a treaty by which he recognized Sicily with Frederic d' Aragon and giving him in marriage his/her Eléonore daughter

He died in 1309, leaving the throne to his Robert son. Another of its sons, Charles-Martel, disputed in André III the throne of Hungary, 1290.

Marriage and children

He marries in 1270 Mária of Hungary (towards 1245 † March 25th, 1323), girl of Etienne V, king of Hungary and Elisabeth of Bosnia, sister and heiress of Ladislas  IV, king de Hongrie. They had:

* Charles Martel (1271 † 1295), king titular of Hungary
* Marguerite (1273 † 1299), countess of Anjou and Maine, married in 1290 with Charles de Valois (1270 † 1325)
* Louis (1274 † 1297), franciscain, bishop of Toulouse
* Robert Wise the (1277 † 1343), king de Naples
* Philippe Ier de Tarente (1278 † 1332), prince de Tarente and of Achaïe
*Blanche (1280 † 1310), married in 1295 with Jacques II (1267 † 1327) king d' Aragon
*Raymond Berenger (1281 † 1307) count d' Andria
*Jean (1283 †), priest
*Tristan (1284 † 1286)
*Eléonore (1289 † 1341), married in 1302 with Frederic II (1272 † 1336), king de Sicile
*Marie (1290 † 1347), married in 1304 with Sanche Ier (1276 dagger; 1324), king de Majorque, then in 1326 in Jacques de Ejerica (1298 † 1335)
*Pierre (1292 † 1315), count de Gravina
* Jean de Durazzo (1294 † 1336), duke of Durazzo, prince d' Achaïe
*Béatrice (1295 † 1321), married to in 1305 Azzo VIII of Este († 1308), then in 1309 in Bertrand of the Beams († 1351), count d' Andria

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