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Alfonso II of Naples (4 November 1448-18 December 1495) was the King of Naples from 1494 to 1495, succeeding Ferrante I of Naples and preceding Ferrante II of Naples, and King of Sicily from 1494 to 1495. Alfonso was the oldest son of Ferrante I of Naples and Isabella de Clermont, and was a cousin of Fernando II of Aragon. Alfonso became the new claimant to the throne of the Kingdom of ...
On 30 October 1137, at the Battle of Rignano (next to Monte Gargano ), the younger Roger and his father, with Sergius of Naples, met the defensive army of Duke Ranulf. It was the greatest defeat of Roger II's career. Sergius died and Roger fled to Salerno. It capped Ranulf's meteoric career: twice victor over Roger.
The Poggio Reale villa or Villa Poggio Reale was an Italian Renaissance villa commissioned in 1487 by Alfonso II of Naples as a royal summer residence. The Italian phrase "poggio reale" translates to "royal hill" in English. The villa was designed and built by Giuliano da Maiano and located in the city of Naples, in the district now known as ...
Isabella of Aragon (2 October 1470 – 11 February 1524), [1] also known as Isabella of Naples, was by marriage Duchess of Milan and suo jure Duchess of Bari. A member of the Neapolitan branch of the House of Trastamara, her life was characterised by the political crises surrounding the Italian Wars. Isabella often found herself torn between ...
Alfonso II (4 November 1448 – 18 December 1495) was Duke of Calabria and ruled as King of Naples from 25 January 1494 to 23 January 1495. He was a soldier and a patron of Renaissance architecture and the arts. Alfonso became King of Naples in 1494 on his father's death. Within a year he was forced by the approaching army of Charles VIII of France to abdicate; he was succeeded by his son ...
Coat of Arms. Frederick (April 19, 1452 – November 9, 1504), sometimes called Frederick IV or Frederick of Aragon, [1] was the last king of Naples from the Neapolitan branch of the House of Trastámara, ruling from 1496 to 1501. He was the second son of Ferdinand I, younger brother of Alfonso II, and uncle of Ferdinand II, his predecessor.
The Kingdom of Naples ( Latin: Regnum Neapolitanum; Italian: Regno di Napoli; Neapolitan: Regno 'e Napule ), also known as the Kingdom of Sicily, was a state that ruled the part of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States between 1282 and 1816. It was established by the War of the Sicilian Vespers (1282–1302), when the island of Sicily ...
