Ettore Pignatelli e Caraffa, 1st Duke of Monteleone

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Ettore Pignatelli e Caraffa, 1st Duke of Monteleone, also spelled Carafa (

Ferrante I of Naples
.

The coat of arms of the multibranched Italian-Spanish family Pignatelli.
Aragón, Spain
since about 1435 till 1516, then to the Spanish Crown from 1517 to (formally) 1714. After 1734 Naples was the kingdom of Charles VII of Naples, King of Spain with the name of Charles III of Spain since about 1749. The Spanish Royal Bourbons' descendants held this kingdom till about the 1860s, when it was incorporated, together with the kingdom of Sicily, more than half of actual Italy, to what is known now as the State of Italy, (Risorgimento). Many people from this area emigrated to North and South America as well as Australia, later

In the war of the French against the

Viceroy of Naples was Ramón de Cardona
.

In 1517, the now 17 years old king

Tunisian and Algerian sailors and warriors seeking defense alliances with the Ottoman Turks
.

In 1523, he managed to quench some restlessness from Sicilian families, namely the

Charles I of Spain
rewarded him by changing the 1st County of Monteleone to 1st Duchy of Monteleone.

The Mediterranean Sea side capital of

suzerain's as a perpetual fief
, of the Emperor and the Viceroy of Sicily, namely, Ettore Pignatelli e Caraffa.

In 1532,

Genovese Admiral Andrea Doria, who had changed in 1528 his contract as a mercenary condottiero at the service of France to fighting under king Charles I of Spain the Holy Roman Emperor, who went in a conquering expedition to what is now Greece
.

They received naval assistance, among others, of the Sicilian kingdom, the Naples kingdom, and of the Spanish viceroys and Captain Generals in Andalucia, Castile, Aragon, Valencia and Catalonia, dealing with ship transports of troops within the Mediterranean Sea at the time. They conquered Koroni, at Messenia, Greece. Patras, with some short time reconquering by the westerners was however mainly a Greek located Turkish port till about 1828. Around 1534, both places lost contact with Sicily.

References

  • Gran Enciclopedia de España. Vol. 17. 2002. p. 8,045.
    ISBN 84-87544-01-0
    .
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