Charles, Duke of Calabria
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| Charles | |
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| Duke of Calabria | |
Santa Chiara Basilica | |
| Spouses | Catherine of Austria (m. 1316; died 1323)Marie of Valois (m. 1323) |
| Issue among others... | |
Robert of Naples | |
| Mother | Yolanda of Aragon |
Charles, Duke of Calabria (1298 – 9 November 1328), was the Duke of Calabria from 1309 until his death. Upon his father's elevation as King of Naples, he was made vicar-general of Naples and duke of Calabria He was elected as signore by the city of Florence in 1326. Charles died on 9 November 1328 in Naples.
Life
Charles was born in
Philip I of Taranto, instead. The Florentine-Neapolitan coalition was badly beaten at the ensuing Battle of Montecatini
.
The victory of
Walter VI of Brienne as his deputy until he could arrive, where Walter made a favorable impression. While Charles' arrival checked Castruccio, he exacted onerous taxes from the Florentines, until he was recalled to Naples in December 1327 due to the advance of Emperor Louis IV into Italy. There he died on 9 November 1328.[4] He left as heir his eldest surviving daughter, Joanna Ι; a posthumous daughter, Marie
, was born in 1329.
Charles was buried in the church of
Santa Chiara
in Naples.
Marriages and issue
In 1316, Charles married
Charles of Valois,[8]
later that same year. They had:
- Eloisa (b. January or February 1325 – d. 27 December 1325).
- Robert the Wise
- Charles Martel (b. Florence, 13 April 1327 – d. Florence, 21 April 1327)[10]
- Maria (b. posthumously, Naples, May 1329 – d. Naples, 20 May 1366), Countess of Alba, married firstly Charles, Duke of Durazzo; married secondly, Philip II of Taranto[8]
Ancestry
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Notes
References
- ^ Diakité & Sneider 2022, p. 43.
- ^ a b Kelly 2003, p. 39.
- ^ Brucker 1998, p. 122.
- ^ Dean 2000, p. 222.
- ^ Partner 1972, p. 306.
- ^ Pryds 2000, p. 48.
- ^ Fasolt 1991, p. 311.
- ^ a b Musto 2003, p. 78.
- ^ Hourihane 2012, p. 395.
- ^ Kelly 2004, p. 33.
Sources
- Brucker, Gene A. (1998). Florence, the Golden Age, 1138-1737. University of California Press.
- Dean, Trevor, ed. (2000). The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages. Manchester University Press.
- Diakité, Rala I.; Sneider, Matthew T., eds. (2022). The Eleventh and Twelfth Books of Giovanni Villani's "New Chronicle". Walter de Gruyter Gmbh.
- Hourihane, Colum, ed. (2012). "Naples I". The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Vol. 4. Oxford University Press.
- Kelly, Samantha (2003). The New Solomon: Robert of Naples (1309-1343) and Fourteenth-Century Kingship. Brill.
- Kelly, Samantha (2004). "Religious patronage and royal propaganda in Angevin Naples: Santa Maria Donna Regina in context". In Elliott, Janis; Warr, Cordelia (eds.). The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina: "Art, Iconography and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples. Ashgate Publishing. pp. 27–44.
- Fasolt, Constantin (1991). Council and Hierarchy: The Political Thought of William Durant the Younger. Cambridge University Press.
- Musto, Ronald G. (2003). Apocalypse in Rome: Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New Age. University of California Press.
- Partner, Peter (1972). The Lands of St Peter: The Papal State in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance. University of California Press.
- Pryds, Darleen N. (2000). The King Embodies the Word: Robert d'Anjou and the Politics of Preaching. Brill.
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