Louis III of Anjou
| Louis III of Anjou | |
|---|---|
 Miniature of Louis III, c. 1450 | |
| Duke of Anjou | |
| Reign | 1417–1434 |
| Predecessor | Louis II of Anjou |
| Successor | René of Anjou |
| Born | 25 September 1403 |
| Died | 12 November 1434 Cosenza |
| Spouse | Margaret of Savoy |
| House | Valois-Anjou |
| Father | Louis II of Anjou |
| Mother | Yolande of Aragon |
Louis III (25 September 1403 – 12 November 1434) was a claimant to the
duke of Anjou from 1417 to 1434. As the heir designate to the throne of Naples, he was duke of Calabria
from 1426 to 1434.
Claim to Aragon
Louis was the eldest son and heir of
king of Aragon
. Louis' family acquired some Aragonese lands in Montpellier and Roussillon.
Yolande and her sons regarded themselves as heirs of higher claim and began to call themselves king and queen of Sicily (including Naples), Jerusalem, Aragon, and Majorca. Of those, only the mainland part of Sicily was ever directly held by Louis, and only briefly. Louis also had claims on the title Latin Emperor, which his grandfather Louis I had purchased in 1383, but he never appears to have used this title.[2]
Claim to Naples
Louis never became king effectively, as he died of malaria at Cosenza in 1434.[4] His brother René succeeded Joanna upon her death the following year.
Notes
- ^ Kekewich 2008, p. xiv.
- ^ Jean Favier, Le Roi René (Paris: Fayard, 2008).
- ^ Kekewich 2008, p. 53.
- ^ a b c d Kekewich 2008, p. 54.
References
- Kekewich, Margaret L. (2008). The Good King: René of Anjou and Fifteenth Century Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.
Sources
- Amedeo Miceli di Serradileo, "Una dichiarazione di Luigi III d'Angiò dalla città di San Marco", Archivio Storico per la Calabria e la Lucania, Rome, XLIII,1976, pp. 69–83.
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