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Feb 15, 2010 · Charles I of Anjou (1126 - 1285): Decameron. , II.6. Charles I, younger brother of Louis IX of France, played a key role in 13th-century politics, both in Italy and beyond. In 1267, he was appointed vicar general of Tuscany; he also became podest? (chief magistrate) of a solidly Guelph Florence, a position he would hold, though often in ...
Charles I (early 1226/1227 – 7 January 1285), commonly called Charles of Anjou or Charles d'Anjou, was a member of the royal Capetian dynasty and the founder of the second House of Anjou. He was Count of Provence (1246–1285) and Forcalquier (1246–1248, 1256–1285) in the Holy Roman Empire, Count of Anjou and Maine (1246–1285) in France ...
Jan 3, 2012 · Charles I of Anjou feared that his mercurial kinsman Charles of Valois might not stick with the house of Anjou if he were not granted a valuable prize; this became all the more important when the Valois prince failed in his bid to seize the throne of Aragon during the anti-Aragonese crusade of 1285. 31 Dunbabin, 37–9.
Jul 21, 2014 · Charles I of Anjou (1225-85), brother of St Louis, was one of the most controversial figures of thirteenth-century Europe. A royal adventurer, who carved out a huge Mediterranean power block, as ruler of Provence, Jerusalem and the kingdom of Naples as well as Anjou, he changed for good the political configuration of the Mediterranean world - even though his ambitions were fatally undermined ...
Charles I of Anjou. Power, kingship and state-making in thirteenth-century Europe. By Jean Dunbabin. (The Medieval World.) Pp. xii+252. London–New York: Longman, 1998. £43.99. 0 582 25371 3; 0 582 25370 5 - Volume 51 Issue 3
Charles Martel of Anjou. Charles Martel ( Hungarian: Martell Károly; 8 September 1271 – 12 August 1295) of the Capetian dynasty was the eldest son of king Charles II of Naples and Mary of Hungary, [1] the daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary . The 18-year-old Charles Martel was set up by Pope Nicholas IV and the ecclesiastical party as the ...
Charles II of Naples. Charles II, also known as Charles the Lame ( French: Charles le Boiteux; Italian: Carlo lo Zoppo; 1254 – 5 May 1309), was King of Naples, Count of Provence and Forcalquier (1285–1309), Prince of Achaea (1285–1289), and Count of Anjou and Maine (1285–1290); he also was King of Albania (1285–1294), and claimed the ...
