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- During the French invasion of Naples in 1501, Joanna and her mother fled to Palermo in Sicily, where they lived during the French occupation of Naples under the protection of Joanna's maternal uncle, Ferdinand II of Aragon.
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Joanna II (25 June 1371 – 2 February 1435) was reigning Queen of Naples from 1414 to her death, when the Capetian House of Anjou became extinct. As a mere formality, she used the title of Queen of Jerusalem , Sicily , and Hungary .
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Joanna II of Naples ruled under the same chaos which had marked the reign of Joanna I of Naples. She was the daughter of Charles III of Durazzo, king of Naples, who had stolen the throne from Joanna I and had her murdered in 1382.
Joan II was the queen of Naples whose long reign (1414–35) was marked by a succession of love affairs, by continual intrigues, and by power struggles over her domain between the French house of Anjou and that of Aragon, in Spain.
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Introduction: “The glorious queen”: historians would hesitate to attribute the epithet to Joanna II of Anjou-Durazzo, queen of Naples from 1414 to 1435. Yet the words are those of her contemporary, the palace’s majordomo and memorialist Loise De Rosa (1385–after 1475).
Joanna II, 1371–1435, queen of Naples (1414–35), sister and successor of Lancelot. The intrigues of her favorites kept her court in turmoil. Her second husband, James of Bourbon, tried to seize power but was imprisoned in 1416.
Feb 2, 2015 · Joanna II, queen of Naples (died 2 February 1435) Joanna was the second queen regnant of Naples--she was preceded on the throne by Joanna I of Naples (b. 1328), who ruled from 1343 until her assassination in 1382.
On this day Joanna II, Queen of Naples from the famous dynasty of Anjou, was born in present-day Zadar in Croatia. She was the sister of the famous king Ladislaus of Naples, who was known for selling Dalmatia to Venice for 100,000 ducats.
