Robert de Tarente
See also: Tarente (homonymy)
Robert of Anjou-Sicily , born in 1315, died in Tarente the September 10th 1360, prince de Tarente and titular emperor of Constantinople, wire of Philippe Ier of Anjou, prince de Tarente, and Catherine de Valois-Courtenay.
Biography
It succeeded his father in 1332.
It was took in hatreds opponents the various branches of the house of Anjou. In the beginning, in 1309, Robert wise the second wire of Charles II of Anjou had drawn aside from the throne its nephew Charles Robert, wire of the oldest son of Charles II. Andre of Hungary, wire of Charles Robert, had married Jeanne Ire, the grand-daughter of Robert the Wise one, but once with the throne, the husbands had torn, relighting this quarrel of succession. Jeanne with the complicity of her lover Louis de Tarente, wire of the third wire of Charles II, had made assassinated her husband, married Louis de Tarente and had placed it on the throne. Louis Ier of Hungary, the older brother of Andre, solved to avenge it and attacked the Royaume of Naples in 1347. Louis de Tarente and Jeanne Ire fled in Provence, but Louis of Hungary made captive the brothers of Louis de Tarente, of which Robert.
Released in 1352, it raised an army and went to fight in Greece. It took Corfou, Céphalonie and Zante of 1353 to 1354. It returned then to Naples.
Marriage
He married with Naples the September 9th 1347 Marie de Bourbon (1315-1387), widow of Guy de Lusignan (1316 † 1343), constable of Cyprus, and girl of Louis Ier, duke of Bourbon, and Marie d' Avesnes. They did not have children of this marriage.
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