Charles d'Anjou I Roi de Sicile

• Preferred Name: Charles d'Anjou I Roi de Sicile^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Military+Service: ABT 1265 in Italy at LATI: N3.1 LONG: E2.3 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• FSID: LWF2-V9P
  
• Ruled: 1266 with note: Description: Naples (House of Anjou)
  
• House of: 1246 with note: Description: 1st of France House of Anjou
  
• Death: 7 JAN 1285 in Foggia, Foggia, Puglia, Italy at LATI: N1.4591 LONG: E5.5429
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 1266 in Italy at LATI: N3.1 LONG: E2.3 with note: Description: King of Sicily
  
• Military+Service: BET 1248 AND 1254 in Egypt at LATI: N7 LONG: E0 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Birth: 21 MAR 1225 in Paris, Île-de-France, France at LATI: N8.8667 LONG: E0.3333
  
• Nickname:
  
• Final+Resting+Place+of+Charles+I+of+Anjou's+Corpse+(sans+heart)+: 1296 in Kingdom of Naples at LATI: N0.905 LONG: E4.325 with note: Description: Chapel at Naples Cathedral Sources: Runciman, Steven (1958). "The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century," pp. 254-255. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-107-60474-2. Dunbabin, Jean (1998). "Charles I of Anjou. Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century Europe," p. 232. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-78093-767-0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_Anjou
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: [KING OF JERUSAL
  
• Burial: AFT 7 JAN 1285 in Naples, Campania, Italy at LATI: N0.9392 LONG: E4.2835
  
• MARR: 18 NOV 1268 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Burial+of+Charles+I's+Heart+at+Couvent+Saint-Jacques: ABT 1285 in Paris, Île-de-France, France at LATI: N8.8667 LONG: E0.3333 with note: Description: A Dominican monastery on Rue Saint-Jacques Charles I of Anjou's heart was placed at the Couvent Saint-Jacques (a Dominican monastery), in Paris, France. His corpse was first buried in a marble sepulchre, in Naples, Italy, and later moved to a chapel of the [then] newly built Naples Cathedral, in 1296. Personally, I argue that the resting place of Charles I's heart would be more meaningful to Charles and his family than where his corpse was buried. Sources: Runciman, Steven (1958). "The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century," pp. 254-255. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-107-60474-2. Dunbabin, Jean (1998). "Charles I of Anjou. Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century Europe," p. 232. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-78093-767-0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_Anjou
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of Albania1272 with note: Wikipedia
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 1266 with note: Description: King of Sicily and Naples
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  "Charles I, commonly called Charles of Anjou, was a member of the royal Capetian dynasty and the founder of the second House of Anjou."
  
  "The youngest son of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile, Charles was destined for a Church career until the early 1240s."
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_Anjou
  
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  Charles 1er de Sicile
  Charles d'Anjou (21 mars 1227 – 7 janvier 1285), roi de Naples et de Sicile (1266-1285), est le dernier fils du roi de France Louis VIII et de Blanche de Castille. Comte d’Anjou et du Maine, il devien
  
  BIO
  BIO: King of Naples, Sicily, Anjou and Jerusalem; Count of Provence and Maine.
  
  ** from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SICILY.htm#CharlesIdied1285 as of 6/12/2016
  
  CHARLES de France, son of LOUIS VI
  
  Charles I (early 1226/1227-7 January 1285)
  Charles I (early 1226/1227-7 January 1285), commonly called Charles of Anjou, was a member of the royal Capetian dynasty and the founder of the second House of Anjou. He was Count of Provence (1246-85
  
  Charles I (early 1226/1227-7 January 1285)
  Charles I (early 1226/1227-7 January 1285), commonly called Charles of Anjou, was a member of the royal Capetian dynasty and the founder of the second House of Anjou. He was Count of Provence (1246-85
  
  === 3rd House of Anjou - which controlled Naples and Sicily. Given as a royal appanage by King Louis IX to his brother, Charles, Count of Provence, who then (1266-1285) became King of Naples and Sicily. Between the years 1248 and 1250 Charles I of Anjou and ===
  3rd House of Anjou - which controlled Naples and Sicily. Given as a royal appanage by King Louis IX to his brother, Charles, Count of Provence, who then (1266-1285) became King of Naples and Sicily.
  
  Between the years 1248 and 1250 Charles I of Anjou and Provence accompanied King Louis IX on the 6th Crusade to the Holy Land.
  
  Charles I Duke of Anjou and Provence defeated Manfred at Benevento in 1266.
  
  Charles I of Anjou, King of the Two Sicilies, defeated Conradin at Tagliacozzo in 1268. Charles became one of the most powerful rulers in Europe; his harsh rule cause an uprising known as the Sicilian Vespers (the Vesper bells ringing was the signal to start the revolt) in 1282.
  
  Charles of Anjou, King of the Two Sicilies, having caused the Sicilian Vester uprising, was driven out of Sicily and Naples by the Spanish in 1284.
  
  === My PAF Notes ===
  from thepeerage.com, 3/2009:
  Charles I Stephen d'Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily
  M, #103124, b. March 1226, d. 7 January 1285
  Charles I Stephen d'Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily|b. Mar 1226\nd. 7 Jan 1285|p10313.htm#i103124|Louis VIII, Roi de France|b. 5 Sep 1187\nd. 8 Nov 1226|p10239.htm#i102383|Blanca de Castilla|b. c 1183\nd. 1 Dec 1252|p10239.htm#i102384|Philippe I. A., Roi de France|b. 21 Aug 1165\nd. 14 Jul 1223|p10310.htm#i103091|Isabelle de Hainaut|b. c 1170\nd. 15 Mar 1190|p10312.htm#i103117|Alfonso V., Rey de Castilla|b. 11 Nov 1155\nd. 22 Sep 1214|p10217.htm#i102162|Eleanor Plantagenet|b. 13 Oct 1162\nd. 31 Oct 1214|p10202.htm#i102020|
  Last Edited=28 Sep 2005
  Consanguinity Index=0.61%
  Charles I Stephen d'Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily was born in March 1226. He was the son of Louis VIII, Roi de France and Blanca de Castilla . He married, firstly, Beatrice, Comtesse de Provence , daughter of Raimond Berengar V, Comte de Provence and Beatrice di Savoia , in 1246.1 He married, secondly, Marguerite de Bourgogne , daughter of Eudes de Bourgogne, Comte de Nevers and Mathilda de Bourbon , in 1268.2 He died on 7 January 1285 at age 58.
  Charles I Stephen d'Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily succeeded to the title of Comte de Provence in 1246.3 He gained the title of King Charles I of Naples and Sicily in 1265.2 He abdicated as King of Sicily in 1282.4
  Children of Charles I Stephen d'Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily and Beatrice, Comtesse de Provence
  Louis d'Anjou b. 1248, d. 1248
  Blanche d'Anjou + b. c 1250, d. 12695
  Beatrix d'Anjou + b. c 1252, d. 12755
  Charles II d'Anjou, King of Naples + b. 1254, d. 6 May 13095
  Philip d'Anjou, King of Thessaloniki b. 1256, d. 12775
  Robert d'Anjou b. c 1258, d. 1265
  Isabel of Sicily b. c 1261, d. bt 1290 - 13046
  Citations
  [S16 ] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 45. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.
  [S16 ] Louda and MacLagan, Lines of Succession, table 64.
  [S38 ] John Morby, Dynasties of the World: a chronological and genealogical handbook (Oxford, Oxfordshire, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1989), page 87. Hereinafter cited as Dynasties of the World.
  [S38 ] John Morby, Dynasties of the World, page 102.
  [S16 ] Louda and MacLagan, Lines of Succession, table 124.
  [S16 ] Louda and MacLagan, Lines of Succession, table 90.
  
  === Carlos, n. 1226 f. 1285 Rei de Sicilia. ===
  Carlos,
  
  n. 1226
  f. 1285
  
  Rei de Sicilia.
  
  === !Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who ===
  !Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650, Sixth Edition by Frederick Lewis Weis Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore 1988 line 104-28; Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa by George Andrew Moriarty Mormon Pioneer Genealogical Society SLC 1985 pp 116,197; The Plantagent Ancestry by W.H.Turton DSO Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore 1984 pp 5; Royal Ancestors of Some American Families by Michel Call SLC 1989 chart 11202,11318; Some research sources from Paula Evans 1992;
  
  === In 1248 he accompanied Louis on the 6th ===
  In 1248 he accompanied Louis on the 6th crusade. In 1250 he wascapturedand briefly imprisoned, but later returned to Provence.By 1264 hecontrolled much of Peidmont. In 1265 Charles invadedItaly, the followingyear the reigning monarch Manfred waskilled in battle and Charles becameling/
  
  === King of Naples and Sicily (1266/85), cou ===
  King of Naples and Sicily (1266/85), count of Anjou and Provence, youngest brother of King Louis IX of France. He took part in Louis's crusades to Egypt (1248) and Tunisia (1270). After obtaining Provence by marriage (1246), he extended his influence into Piedmont. He became senator of Rome (1263, 1265/78) and undertook to champion the papal cause against Manfred in the kingdom of Naples and Sicily. In reward, he was crowned king (1266) by Pope Clement IV. Charles defeated (1266) Manfred at Benevento and defeated and executed Conradin in 1268. As leader of the Guelphs, or papal faction, he gained political hegemony in Italy and won suzerainty over several cities in Tuscany, Piedmont, and Lombardy, but his overbearing policies led to a cooling of his relations with the papacy. Planning to establish his own empire, he allied himself with the deposed Byzantine emperor, Baldwin II, against Michael VIII and fought for years in the Balkans. Corfu, Epirus, and Albania were taken, but the crushing taxes necessitated by his wars and his appointment of oppressive French officials to exact them led to the Sicilian Vespers (1282). The ensuing war against the Sicilian rebels and Peter III of Aragón, chosen by the rebels as king of Sicily, continued under Charles's son and successor, Charles II. Charles I was the founder of the first Angevin dynasty in Naples. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition Copyright ©1993
  
  === !EWH-p242; Charles Capet, Count of Anjou ===
  !EWH-p242; Charles Capet, Count of Anjou, King of Sicily; p313 Charles I (Angevin) king of Naples and Sicily (1268-1281). His grandiose scheme for the creation of a Mediterranean empire in succession to the Byzantine was frustrated by the Siciliam Vespers (1282) and the war in Sicily which continued until 1302. Sicily maintained its independence and offered the crown to Peter III of Aragon (husband of Constance, heiress of the Hohenstaufen), an ally of Constantinople against Charles. Peter accepted the offer (1282), ejected the Angevins, and established the house of Aragon on the throne. !The Rupenides, Hethumides and Lusignans, Count W.H. Rudt-Collenberg p80; Charles I (Anjou) King of Naples; !#552-v2-T12; Charles Etienne 1232/46 Count d'Anjou, 1246 Count de Provence, 1266 King of Naples and Sicily; !Ancestral Roots, Seventh Edition; p99, Charles I, b. 1220, d 1285, Count of Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily;
  
  === !MAR: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Tur ===
  !MAR: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull.
  
  === Weis. 104-28. Charles I was Count of A ===
  Weis. 104-28. Charles I was Count of Anjou and King of Naples and Sicily.
  
  === BIOGRAPHY: TITLE: KING OF JERUSALEM Non ===
  BIOGRAPHY: TITLE: KING OF JERUSALEM Non-standard gedcom data: 1 _IFLAGS 0
  
  === !reigned 1266-1285,1268-1282 ===
  !reigned 1266-1285,1268-1282
  
  === Charles I, byname CHARLES OF ANJOU, Ital ===
  Charles I, byname CHARLES OF ANJOU, Italian CARLO D'ANGIÒ (b. March 1226--d. Jan. 7, 1285, Foggia, Kingdom of Naples [Italy]), count of Anjou [1232], king of Naples and Sicily (1266-85), the first of the Angevin dynasty, and creator of a great but short-lived Mediterranean empire.
  
  The seventh child of Louis VIII. of France and Blanche of Castile, and younger brother of Louis IX. Louis died a few months after Charles's birth and was succeeded by his son Louis IX (St. Louis), and on the death in 12132 of the third son, John, count of Anjou and Maine, those fiefs were conferred on Charels. In 1246 he married Beatrice, daughter and heiress of Raymond Bérenger V., the last count of Provence, and after defeating James I. of Aragon and other rivals with the help of his brother, the French king, he took possession of his new country. In 1248 he accompanied Louis in the crusade to Egypt, but on the defeat of the Crusaders he was taken prisoner with his brother. Shortly afterwards he was ransomed, and returned to Provence in 1250. Charles's ambition aimed at wider fields, and he extended his influence by the subjugation of Marseille in 1257, and two years later several communes of Piedmont recognized his suzerainty. In 1262 Pope Urban IV. determined to destroy the power of the Hohenstaufen in Italy, and offered the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily, in consideration of a years tribute, to Charles of Anjou. After long negotiations he accepted the Sicilian and Neapolitan crowns, and in 1264 he sent a first expedition of Provençals to Italy; he also collected a large army and navy in Provence and France with the help of King Louis, and by an alliance with the cities of Lombardy was able to send part of his force overland. Pope Clement IV. confirmed the Sicilian agreement on conditions even more favourable to Charles, who sailed in 1265, and conferred on the expedition all the privileges of a crusade. After narrowly escaping capture by Manfred's fleet, he reached Rome safely, where he was crowned king of the Two Sicilies. The land army arrived soon afterwards, and on Feb. 26, 1266, Charles encountered his rival Manfred the bastard of the emperor Frederick II., at Benevento, where after a hard-fought battle Manfred was defeated and killed, and the whole kingdom was soon in Charles's possession. Then Conradin, Frederick's grandson and last legitimate descendant of the Hohenstaufen, came into Italy, where he found many partisans among the Ghibellines of Lombardy and Tuscany, and among Manfred's former adherents in the south. He was totally defeated by Charles at Tagliacozzo [Aug. 23, 1268]; taken prisoner, he was tried as a rebel and executed at Naples.
  
  Charles was now one of the most powerful sovereigns of Europe, for besides ruling over Provence and Anjou and the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, he was imperial vicar of Tuscany, lord of many cities of Lombardy and piedmont, and as the pope's favourite practically arbiter of the papal states, especially during the interregnum between the death of Clement IV. [1268] and the election of Gregory X. [1272]. In 1272 he took part with Louis IX. in a crusade to north Africa. Charles thereafter expanded his power into the Balkans and in 1277 became heir to the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The election of Rudolph of Habsburg as German king, and that of Nicholas III to the Holy See [1277], diminished Charles's power, for the new pope set himself to compose the difference between the Guelphs and Ghibellines in the Italian cities, but at his death Charles secured the election of his henchman Martin IV. [1281], who recommended persecuting the Ghibellines. Charles's transferred his capital from Palermo to Naples, but the cruelty of the French rulers of Sicily provoked in 1282 the rebellion knows as the Sicilian Vespers. Charles determined to subjugate the island and sailed with his fleet for Messina. The city held out until Peter III. of Aragon arrived in Sicily, and a Sicilian-Catalan fleet under the Calabrese admiral, Roger de Lauria, completely destroyed that of Charles. In May 1284 Roger de Lauria appeared before Naples and destroyed another Angevin fleet commanded by Charles's son, who was taken prisoner. Charles came to Naples with a new fleet from Provence, and was preparing to invade Sicily again, when he died at Foggia on Jan. 7, 1285. An extremely able soldier and a skillful statesman, his inordinate ambition and his cruelty created enemies on all sides, and led to the collapse of the edifice of dominion which he had raised. [Encyclopædia Britannica, 1961 ed., Vol. 5, p. 277, CHARLES I.]
  
  === Research results ===
  !Royal Ancestors of Some LDS Families, compiled by Michel L Call,
  1975 edition
  Charles I King of Jerusalem continues on Chart 318 in the book
  
  === BIOGRAPHY: King of Sicily 1266. Count o ===
  BIOGRAPHY: King of Sicily 1266. Count of Provence, Duke of Anjou 1246.
  
  === THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 ===
  THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.4, 5; SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.26; BETHAMIS GENEALOGICAL TABLES (GS NUMBER Q929.2 B465G) TAB 353; TABLEAUX GENEALOGIQUES DES SOUVERAINES DE FRANCE ET SEU GRANDS FEUDATAIRES (GS NUMBER 944 D22G) TAB 51; TABLETTES CHRONOLOGIQUES (GS NUMBER 944 D22T) VOL 1 P.150, 185; VOL 2 P.63, 191; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  === Lineage Sources: Betham's Charts of Roy ===
  Lineage Sources: Betham's Charts of Royal Houses of Europe. DCVIII, DCVI, CCCVIII, DCXIV, CCCLIII, CCLXXIV, DCXII, DCVI, CCLV, CCLV. H. B. George's Genealogical Tables Illustrative of Modern Hist. Tables XX, XXIX, XXXIII and XXXVI, XXXVII, IV. Allstrom's Genealogical Dict. of Royal Lineage. Vol. I, Kings of England and France. Vol. 2, pp. 619-623, 425-6-7-11, 614. Burke's Royal Families of England, Scotland and Wales. Part II, Pedigree, VII, CXXV, LXXIV, LXXVI, LXX, XXVII, CIII CXV. Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. 4, pp. 278-281; Vol. 5, p. 320.
  
  === !Charles I, King of Naples. 1227-85. You ===
  !Charles I, King of Naples. 1227-85. Youngest brother of Louis IX of France; count of Anjou and Provence; king of Naples and Sicily (1266-85). Charles took part in Louis IX's crusades of 1248 and 1270. He was crowned king of Naples and Sicily in 1266 by Pope Clement IV in return for supporting papal rights in southern Italy against Manfred, king of Naples and Sicily; he defeated and slew Manfred in battle the same year. As leader of the Guelph, or pro-papal faction, he gained political dominance in Italy. But his harsh tax exactions in his southern kingdom provoked the Sicilian Vespers of 1282, when Sicily rose against his rule and called n the Arogonese for help. The war between the Angevins and Aragonese was still in progress when Charles died. Ref. Chronicles of the Age of Chivalry/Four Gothic Kings (USedn):110,125. Dawson Family Org. John Dawson 6514 Kline St. Arvada Co. 80004.
  
  === !#18-v2-t15,118; !#44-v1-p83,393-397; !# ===
  !#18-v2-t15,118; !#44-v1-p83,393-397; !#236-p60,-ped folio 3; !#552-v2-t12,15; !GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 6, Pedigree Resource File CD 6, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999)
  
  === He was also ===
  He was also the Count of Anjou and provence. He championed the papal cause against Manfred and was crowned king by pope Clement IV in 1266. He had his rival Conradin executed in 1268. Won hegemony over Italy as leader of Guelphs and conquered Albania from Byzantium. Sicily rebelled in 1282 and chose Peter III of Aragon as king.
  
  === Charles I., Count of Anjou by appanage, ===
  Charles I., Count of Anjou by appanage, King of Sicily, 1266-1285, born in 1226, married on January 31, 1246, (1) Beatrice of Provence, 4th youngest daughter of Raymond Berenger V. of Provence, who died in 1267. She was named heiress at her father's death, sister of Margaret of France. At Pentacost, 1246, Charles's knighthood was celebrated at the castle of Melun. After this ceremony he was styled Charles of Anjou, since the two holdings of Maine and Anjou, left to him by his father's will, were officially handed over to him at that time. Later he married in 1268 (2) Margaret of Burgundy, who died in 1308.
  
  === See Europäisch Stammtafeln Bund II tafel 118. ===
  See Europäisch Stammtafeln Bund II tafel 118.
  
  === Charles I, "King of Naples and Sicily an ===
  Charles I, "King of Naples and Sicily and count of Anjou, was the seventh child of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile. ...one of the most powerful sovereigns of Europe... An extremely able soldier and a skillful statesman, his inordinate ambition and his cruelty created enemies on all sides, and led to the collapse of the edifice of dominion which he had raised." - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1959 Ed., 5:277 (cf.16:81). He built the "New Castle" in Naples.
  
  === Gf. v. Anjou u. Maine 1246, Gf. v. Prove ===
  Gf. v. Anjou u. Maine 1246, Gf. v. Provence 1267, Kg. v. Sizilien 1266, Kg. v. Neapel 1282
  
  === A SHORT HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL EUROPE; by Oliver J. THATCHER (1897, New York); Page 323. ===
  A SHORT HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL EUROPE; by Oliver J. THATCHER (1897, New York); Page 323.
  
  === In an attempt to end Hohenstaufen power ===
  In an attempt to end Hohenstaufen power in Italy, Pope Urban IV offers the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily to Charles of Anjou, brother of King Louis IX of France, in 1262. Charles is crowned in Rome in 1265. The King of Naples and Sicily, Charles of Anjou, defeats his rival, Manfred, the Sicilian King, in a battle near Benevento in 1266. Conradin, son of the late Holy Roman Emperor Conrad IV, will soon make a claim to the Sicilian crown. In 1282, in a church outside Palermo, at the hour of vespers, a rebellion begins in Sicily against Charles of Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily, who is imposing heavy taxes on his population. The revolt becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers. On the heels of the Sicilian Vespers, Sicilian noblemen invite Pedro III, King of Aragon, to make his claim to the Sicilian crown. (Pedro is married to the daughter of Manfred, a now deceased Sicilian King.) Pedro arrives in Palermo in fall 1282. Charles of Anjou dies in 1285. Succession is complicated by the fact that Charles' son, Charles the Lame, is a prisoner of the King of Aragon, a contender for the Sicilian crown.
  
  === WFT Ref # 551 Vol 27 Charles I, Count o ===
  WFT Ref # 551 Vol 27 Charles I, Count of Anlou, King of Naples and Sicily 1246-1285. He was the first of the Angevin Dynasty, and creator of a great but short-lived Mediterranean empire. The younger brother of Louis IX of France, Charles acuired the county of Provence in 1246, and accompanied Louis on his Egyptain Crusade, 1248-1250. Allied with the papacy, he conquered Naples and Sicily in the 1260's. He expanded his power into the Balkins and in 1277 became heir to the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Charles was preparing for a battle with the Sicillans when he died.
  
  === King of two Sicilies. Given countships ===
  King of two Sicilies. Given countships of Anjou and Maine by brother and through marriage became count of Province. In 1248 he went on the 6th Crusade. In 1250, he was captured and briefly imprisoned. In 1264, he controlled much Piedmont. he agreed to aid the Pope in struggle against the Ghibellines in return of the two Sicilies. In 1265 he invaded Italy. The following year the reigning monarch Manfred was killed in battle and he became King. In 1268, Conradin, nephew of Manfred and last of the Hohenstaufen Dynasty, led a revolt against Charles and was captured and executed. He burtally suppressed the Ghibelline nobles seizing their estates to pay his soldiers. In 1270, he participated in the 7th Crusade. He tried to take over Sicily but was routed by Pedro III, King of Aragon, who destroyed his fleet.
  
  === Charles I (of Two Sicilies) (1226-85), k ===
  Charles I (of Two Sicilies) (1226-85), king of the Two Sicilies (1266-85). He was the posthumous son of Louis VIII, king of France, and the brother of King Louis IX. He was given the countships of Anjou and Maine by his brother, and through marriage in 1246 he became count of Provence. In 1248 he accompanied Louis on the Sixth Crusade. In 1250 he was captured and briefly imprisoned, but later returned to Provence. By 1264 he controlled much of Piedmont. Charles agreed to aid the pope in his struggle against the Ghibellines in return for the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. In 1265 Charles invaded Italy; the following year the reigning monarch Manfred (1232?-66) was killed in battle and Charles became king. In 1268, Conradin (1252-68), nephew of Manfred and last of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, led a revolt against Charles but was captured and executed. The king brutally suppressed the Ghibelline nobles, seizing their estates to pay his French soldiers. In 1270 Charles participated in the disastrous Seventh Crusade. In 1282 he learned of a revolt in Sicily against the French. Charles tried to reestablish his authority over the island, but was routed by Pedro III, king of Aragn (1239-85), who destroyed his fleet. Charles died soon after, leaving his kingdom in a chaotic condition.
  
  === Ref: Weis Ancestral Roots 104-28. Coun ===
  Ref: Weis Ancestral Roots 104-28. Count of Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily.

• m. 18 NOV 1268

• m. 31 JAN 1246 in Aix, Drôme, Rhône-Alpes, France

1. Carlo d'Angiò II, b. 1248 in Naples, Napoli, Campania, Italy     d. 5 MAY 1309 in Caranova, Nr Naples, Italy
2. Charles d'Anjou II Roi de Naples, b. 1 JAN 1254 in Napoli, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy     d. 5 MAY 1309 in Napoli, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy

1. Title: Charles of Anjou (1225-1285), Find a Grave
   Author: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21056
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   Note: Charles de Anjou BIRTH 21 Mar 1226 Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France DEATH 7 Jan 1285 (aged 58) Foggia, Provincia di Foggia, Puglia, Italy BURIAL Saint Denis Basilique, Saint-Denis, Departement de Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France Memorial 21056 Born the youngest son of King Louis VIII and Blanche de Castile, in 1246 he married the twelve years old Beatrice... he was crowned King of Naples and Sicily in January 1266... he was able to buy the claims of Maria of Antioch-Lusignan on the Kingdom of Jerusalem and was crowned King in 1277... His heart was brought to France and his intestines to Foggia where they were buried.
   
2. Title: Project MedLand / Charles Cawley /
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BURGUNDY%20Kingdom.htm#GaucherVMaconSalinsdied1219B;
   Note: France, Burgundy/Franche-Comte - Provence, Kings, Comtes & Nobility, p. 60: BEATRICE de Provence (1234-Naples 23 Sep 1267, bur Naples, Cathedral of San Gennaro, transferred 1277 to Aix-en-Provence, Church of St Jean de Jerusalem). The testament of “R. Berengarius…comes et marchio Provincie et comes Forcalquerii”, dated 20 Jun 1238, names “Margaritam filiam nostrum…reginam Francie…Elionors filiam nostrum…reginam Anglie…Sanciam filiam nostram” and appoints “Beatricem filiam nostrum heredem generalem”[447]. She succeeded in 1245 as BEATRICE Ctss de Provence, in accordance with the testament of her father. The Annales Sancti Victoris Massilienses record the marriage "1246 mense Ian pridie Kal Feb" of "Karolus comes, frater Lodovici Francorum regis" and "Beatrice filia comitis Provincie Raimundi Berengarii bone memorie"[448]. A second testament of "Beatrix relicta…Dom. Reymundi Berengarii comitis provinciæ", dated 22 Feb 1264, adds bequests to "…Beatrice Andegavie comitisse"[449]. The testament of "Beatrix…Regina Sicilie, Ducatus Apuliæ et Principatus Capuæ, Andegavensis, Provinciæ et Forcalquerii Comitissa" is dated "die Mercurii in crastino Beatorum Peteri et Pauli Apostolorum" in 1266, with bequests to "filium nostrum Philippum…Domini Caroli…Regis Siciliæ…mariti nostri…filiam nostram Blancham maritatam Roberto Flandrensi…Carolus filius noster primogenitus…Beatricem filiam nostram…Isabellim filiam nostram…" and naming "bonæ memoriæ Domini Raimundi Berengarii quondam patris nostri"[450]. The Istoria of Saba Malaspina records the death of "regina" in Naples, dated to 1267 from the context[451]. m (Aix-en-Provence 31 Jan 1246) as his first wife, CHARLES de France Comte d'Anjou et de Maine, son of LOUIS VIII King of France & Infanta doña Blanca de Castilla (posthumously [21] Mar 1226/7-Foggia 7 Jan 1285, bur Naples, Cathedral of San Gennaro). Marquis de Provence and Comte de Forcalquier 1246, by right of his wife. Created Comte d'Anjou et du Maine Aug 1246 by his brother King Louis IX. He was invested as CHARLES I King of Sicily at Rome 28 Jun 1265, confirmed by Pope Clement IV 4 Nov, crowned at St Peter’s Rome 6 Jan 1266.
   
3. Title: Charles I of Anjou, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7QMX-JPW2 : 12 January 2023), Charles I of Anjou, ; Burial, Milan, Città Metropolitana di Milano, Lombardia, Italy, Cathedral of Milan; citing record ID 194547819, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7QMX-JPW2;
   
4. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Charles I King of Jerusalem -
   Author: France in the Middle Ages 987-1460/ Moyen Abe 987-1460, English, George Duby/ Translated by Juliet Vale, Printed/Bound in Great Britain by MPG Books, Ltd, Page number: Inheritance pages
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3243690012
   
5. Title: Legacy NFS Source: King Charles I of Anjou Naples And Sicily -
   Author: Royal Index, University of Hull, England, Internet, Internet, www.dcs.hull.ac.uk
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2332880681
   
6. Title: The Medieval Lands Project, "CHARLES de France"
   Author: fmg.ac
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SICILY.htm#CharlesIdied1285;
   Note: CHARLES de France, son of LOUIS VIII King of France & his wife Infanta doña Blanca de Castilla y León (posthumously [21] Mar 1227-Foggia 7 Jan 1285, bur Naples, Cathedral of San Gennaro). He is recorded as brother of Louis IX King of France by Matthew Paris, who states that the king sent him home with his brother Alphonse after the battle of Mansurah in 1250[736]. He became Marquis de Provence and Comte de Forcalquier in 1246, by right of his first wife. His brother Louis IX King of France installed him as Comte d'Anjou et du Maine, at Melun in Aug 1246. He accompanied King Louis IX on crusade to Egypt in 1248, but was imprisoned during the retreat from Damietta 5 Apr 1250. He returned to Provence in Oct 1250[737]. Following the death of his mother in 1252, he took an active part in governing France (with his brother Alphonse Comte de Poitiers), taking charge in particular of foreign affairs and military operations[738]. Pope Innocent IV, as part of his anti-Hohenstaufen strategy, proposed Charles as king of Sicily in 1253, but he refused. Marguerite II Ctss of Flanders offered him the county of Hainaut as part of her strategy of disinheriting her children by her first marriage. He besieged Valenciennes, but King Louis required him to renounce any claim to Hainaut in 1256[739]. Raymond des Baux Prince d'Orange ceded him all his claims to the kingdoms of Arles and Vienne 23 Aug 1257. Guglielmo II Conte di Ventimiglia accepted his suzerainty 19 Jan 1258[740]. Pope Urban IV repeated the papal offer of the kingdom of Sicily in Jun 1263[741]. He was elected Senator of Rome in Aug 1263, invested as such in Rome 21 Jun 1265[742]. He was invested as CHARLES I King of Sicily at Rome 28 Jun 1265, confirmed by Pope Clement IV 4 Nov and crowned at St Peter’s Rome 6 Jan 1266. He defeated and killed Manfredo King of Sicily near Benevento 26 Feb 1266, and entered Naples 7 Mar 1266. Under the first Treaty of Viterbo 24 May 1267, Guillaume II de Villehardouin Prince of Achaia accepted Angevin suzerainty[743]. Under the second Treaty of Viterbo 27 May 1267, King Charles acquired all rights over Greece (except the city of Constantinople) from Baudouin II ex-Emperor of Constantinople, confirmed by the betrothal of his daughter to Baudouin's son, and agreed that the military campaign to recapture Constantinople would begin in 1274[744]. Challenged by Konradin von Hohenstaufen, he defeated and captured the latter 23 Aug 1268 at Tagliacozzo, Abruzzo. Imperial Vicar-General in Italy 1268. Charles's attention was diverted from Byzantium by joining his brother's crusade against Tunis in 1270. He captured Durazzo in 1272, declaring himself King of Albania 21 Feb 1272. Comte de Tonnerre in 1273, by right of his second wife. On the death of Guillaume de Villehardouin in 1278, the principality of Achaia passed under Charles's direct authority, as a result of the marriage contract of his deceased son Philippe. Pope Gregory X arranged for Marie of Antioch to sell her rights to the kingdom of Jerusalem to King Charles in Mar 1277 for 1000 gold pounds and an annuity of 4000 pounds tournois. He immediately assumed the title King of Jerusalem and sent Roger di San Severino as his bailli to Acre where the latter succeeded in taking control of the administration and proclaimed Charles as king[745]. Nikephoros Dukas Komnenos Angelos Lord of Epirus accepted his suzerainty in 1278[746]. Encouraged by the new Pope Martin IV, he signed the Treaty of Orvieto 3 Jul 1281 with Venice and Philippe de Courtenay, titular Latin Emperor of Constantinople, with a view to restoring the Latin Empire. The massacre of the French in Palermo 30 Mar 1282 led to general rebellion in Sicily against French rule in favour of Pedro III King of Aragon. He retired to Bordeaux 12 Jan 1283, leaving his son Charles Principe di Salerno as governor of the Kingdom. The Aragonese fleet defeated the Angevin forces in the bay of Naples 5 Jun 1284, during which Charles's heir was captured. He returned to Naples 8 Jun 1284[747]. The Chronicle of Toulouse Saint-Saturnin records the death "in festo Epiphaniæ" in 1284 (presumably O.S.) of "Carolus rex Siciliæ"[748]. The Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis records the death 7 Jan 1285 (N.S.) of "Karolus rex Siciliæ"[749]. m firstly (Aix-en-Provence 31 Jan 1246) BEATRICE Ctss de Provence et de Forcalquier, daughter & heiress of RAYMOND BERENGER IV Comte de Provence et de Forcalquier & his wife Béatrice de Savoie ([1232/34]-Naples 23 Sep 1267, bur Naples, Cathedral of San Gennaro, transferred 1277 to Aix-en-Provence, église de Saint Jean de Jérusalem). The testament of “R. Berengarius…comes et marchio Provincie et comes Forcalquerii”, dated 20 Jun 1238, names “Margaritam filiam nostrum…reginam Francie…Elionors filiam nostrum…reginam Anglie…Sanciam filiam nostram” and appoints “Beatricem filiam nostrum heredem generalem”[750]. Her birth date is estimated on the assumption that she was 12/14 years old at the time of her marriage in 1246. The Annales Sancti Victoris Massilienses record the marriage "1246 mense Ian pridie Kal Feb" of "Karolus comes, frater Lodovici Francorum regis" and "Beatrice filia comitis Provincie Raimundi Berengarii bone memorie"[751]. A second testament of "Beatrix relicta…Dom. Reymundi Berengarii comitis provinciæ", dated 22 Feb 1264, adds bequests to "…Beatrice Andegavie comitisse"[752]. The testament of "Beatrix…Regina Sicilie, Ducatus Apuliæ et Principatus Capuæ, Andegavensis, Provinciæ et Forcalquerii Comitissa" is dated "die Mercurii in crastino Beatorum Peteri et Pauli Apostolorum" in 1266, with bequests to "filium nostrum Philippum…Domini Caroli…Regis Siciliæ…mariti nostri…filiam nostram Blancham maritatam Roberto Flandrensi…Carolus filius noster primogenitus…Beatricem filiam nostram…Isabellim filiam nostram…ventrem nostrum, si contigat Nos masculum parere...si autem filiam..." and naming "bonæ memoriæ Domini Raimundi Berengarii quondam patris nostri"[753]. The Istoria of Saba Malaspina records the death of "regina" in Naples, dated to 1267 from the context[754]. An inscription in Naples Cathedral records “domina regina Beatrix uxor domini Caroli de Francia rigis Siciliæ” 1267[755]. m secondly (by proxy Trani 18 Jan 1268, in person [12 Oct/18 Nov] 1268) MARGUERITE de Bourgogne, daughter of EUDES de Bourgogne [Capet] Comte de Nevers, d'Auxerre et de Tonnerre & his wife Mathilde de Bourbon [Dampierre] Dame de Bourbon Ctss de Nevers, d'Auxerre et de Tonnerre ([1249/50]-château de Tonnerre 5 Sep 1308, bur Tonnerre, église de l'Hôpital). William of Tyre (Continuator) records the marriage of King Charles and "la fille du conte de Nevers, niece le duc de Borgoigne" in 1268, around the time of the execution of Konradin[756]. The Istoria of Saba Malaspina records that Charles I King of Sicily married "filia ducis [Burgundiæ]"[757]. Ctss de Tonnerre, Dame de Montmirail et du Perche. An arrêt of the Parliament dated 1 Nov 1273 addressed “dominus Ioannes de Cabilone miles...de parte Aalesin uxorem suam...Yolandim comitissam Niverrnensem [...Robertum de Flandria eius maritum] et Margaretam reginam Siciliæ sorores suas” in respect of the succession of “Mathildis quondam comitissæ Nivernensis matris suæ”, ordered the partition of “Nivernensi, Altissiodorensi et Tornodorensi comitatib.”, under which Nevers was granted to Yolande, Tonnerre to Marguerite, and Auxerre to Alix[758]. After the death of her husband, she returned to France and retired to Tonnerre where she founded a hospital 9 Apr 1293. The Continuatio of the Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis records the death in 1308 of "Margareta Siciliæ regina relicta primi Karoli regis Siciliæ fratrisque sancti Ludovici"[759]. Mistress (1): LAUDUNA, widow of --- Alba di Tarascono, daughter of --- (-after 1273). King Charles I authorised payments to “Laudune relicte quodam domini Albe de Tarascono matri quondam Caroli filioli nostri” for her maintenance in 1273[760]. Mistress (2): GIACOMA, wife of RUGGIERO di Pietrafissa, daughter of --- di Pietracastalda e di Sasso & his wife ---. An undated charter records the grant to “domine Iacobe uxori domini Rogerii de Petrafixa sorori quondam Amfesini et Thomasini” of “tertia pars Titi nec non Petracastalda cum Saxo“ which had been granted by Manfredo King of Sicily and confiscated from them because of “proditionem factam in Capuacio” and confirmed its possession by “dominus Ioannes de Ancis gallicus vir domine Sobucie filie dicte domine Iacobe et domini Regis” in the name of his wife[761]. King Charles I & his first wife had [eight] children (d'Anjou): (Louis, Blanche, Charles, Lhilippe, Beatrice, Robert, Isabelle and an unknown child who may or may not have come to term). King Charles I & his second wife had one child: 9. MARGUERITE d’Anjou ([1272/73]-after 23 Jun 1276). King Charles I had one illegitimate child by Mistress (1): 10. CARLO (-before 1273). King Charles I authorised payments to “Laudune relicte quodam domini Albe de Tarascono matri quondam Caroli filioli nostri” for her maintenance in 1273[794]. King Charles I had one illegitimate child by Mistress (2): 11. SOBUCIA . An undated charter records the grant to “domine Iacobe uxori domini Rogerii de Petrafixa sorori quondam Amfesini et Thomasini” of “tertia pars Titi nec non Petracastalda cum Saxo“ which had been granted by Manfredo King of Sicily and confiscated from them because of “proditionem factam in Capuacio” and confirmed its possession by “dominus Ioannes de Ancis gallicus vir domine Sobucie filie dicte domine Iacobe et domini Regis” in the name of his wife[795]. m JEAN d’Ancis, son of --- (-after 1280).
   
7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Charles I /d' Anjou/ King of Sicily/Naples -
   Author: Royalty for Commoners, 2nd Ed; Roderick W Stuart {1988}, Page number: 88-26, 164-26
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742394
   
8. Title: Charles I of Anjou wikipedia
   Author: Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_Anjou;
   Note: detailed life history with ancestors and descendants
   Page: Complete history ancestors and descendants