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Charles II of Naples (1248-5 May 1309) was the king of Naples from 7 January 1285 to 5 May 1309, succeeding Charles of Anjou and preceding Robert of Naples. Charles was born in around 1248, the son of Charles of Anjou and Beatrice of Provence. During the War of the Sicilian Vespers he served as a general of his father, and in 1284 he was captured by Roger de Lauria's Aragonese fleet at the ...
Brief Life History of Charles. When Charles d’Anjou II Le Boiteux Roi de Naples was born on 1 January 1254, in Naples, Campania, Italy, his father, Charles I d’Anjou Roi de Sicile, de Naples, de Jérusalem et d’Albanie, was 27 and his mother, Marchioness Beatrice di Savoia, was 30. He married Árpád-házi Mária Reine de Naples about May ...
Jul 19, 2023 · The occasion directly concerned the kingdom of Naples: Charles VIII boasted a distant kinship with the Angevin kings of Naples (his paternal grandmother was the daughter of Louis II, who attempted to wrest the Parthenopean throne from Charles of Durazzo and Ladislaus I), sufficient for him to claim the royal title.
May 5, 2024 · Charles the Short or Charles of Durazzo (1345 – 24 February 1386) was King of Naples and titular King of Jerusalem from 1382 to 1386 as Charles III, and King of Hungary from 1385 to 1386 as Charles II. In 1382 Charles created the order of Argonauts of Saint Nicholas. In 1383 he succeeded to the Principality of Achaea on the death of James of ...
Charles II of Spain (1661–1700)Charles II of Spain (b. November 1661; d. 1 November 1700), king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily (1665–1700). Chronically ill throughout his life, Charles II ruled early on through his mother, as regent, and a five-member government junta, which was an aristocratic faction headed by his illegitimate brother, Don John of Austria.
May 18, 2018 · CHARLES II (1661 – 1700)CHARLES II (SPAIN) (1661 – 1700), king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily (1665 – 1700), son of Philip IV, and the last Habsburg ruler of Spain. From the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella in the fifteenth century through that of Philip IV in the mid-seventeenth century, Spain was the major power in western Europe, possessing a rich colonial empire and respected for its ...
Feb 7, 2024 · He became known as the Merry Monarch—his hedonistic ways in stark contrast to the puritan regime he replaced. Charles was born on 29 May 1630, in St. James's Palace, London, the second and eldest surviving son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria of France, who was a Roman Catholic. He was baptised at the Chapel Royal, by the Anglican Bishop of ...
