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Birth:          1248 Naples, Italy
Death:          5 May 1309 Caranova nr Naples, Italy

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Naples
Biography[edit]

He was the son of Charles I of Anjou, who had conquered the Kingdom of Naples and 
Sicily in the 1260s. His mother was Beatrice of Provence.

During the Sicilian Vespers, he was captured by Roger of Lauria in the naval battle at 
Naples in 1284. When his father died in 1285, he was still a prisoner of Peter III of 
Aragon.

In 1288, King Edward I of England mediated to make peace, and Charles was freed on 
condition that he retain Naples alone. Sicily was left to the Aragonese. Charles was 
also to induce his cousin Charles of Valois to renounce, for twenty thousand pounds 
of silver, the kingdom of Aragon, which had been given to him by Pope Martin IV to 
punish Peter for having invaded Sicily, but which the Valois had never effectively 
occupied.

Charles was then released, leaving three of his sons and sixty Provençal nobles as 
hostages. He promised to pay 30,000 marks and to return as a prisoner if the 
conditions were not fulfilled within three years.[1] He then went to Rieti, where the 
new pope, Nicholas IV, absolved him from all the conditions he had sworn to observe, 
crowned him King of Sicily in 1289, and excommunicated King Alfonso III of Aragon. 
Charles of Valois, in alliance with Castile, prepared to take possession of Aragon, 
reopening the Aragonese Crusade. Alfonso, being hard pressed, agreed to the 
conditions of the Treaty of Tarascon: he had to promise to withdraw the troops he had 
sent to help his brother James in Sicily, renounce all rights over the island, and pay a 
tribute to the Holy See.

Alfonso died childless in 1291 before the treaty could be carried out, and James took 
possession of Aragon, leaving the government of Sicily to the third brother, Frederick.

Pope Boniface VIII, elected in 1294 at Naples under the auspices of King Charles, 
mediated between the latter and James, and the dishonourable Treaty of Anagni was 
signed: James was to marry Charles’s daughter Bianca and was promised the 
investiture by the Pope of Sardinia and Corsica, while he was to leave the Angevin a 
free hand in Sicily and even to assist him if the Sicilians resisted.

An attempt was made to bribe Frederick into consenting to this arrangement, but being 
backed up by his people he refused, and was afterwards crowned King of Sicily. The 
ensuing war was fought on land and sea, but Charles, though aided by the Pope, his 
cousin Charles of Valois and James, was unable to conquer the island, and his son the 
prince of Taranto was taken prisoner at the Battle of La Falconara in 1299. Peace 
was at last made in 1302 at Caltabellotta. Charles gave up all rights to Sicily and 
agreed to the marriage of his daughter Eleanor and King Frederick; the treaty was 
ratified by the Pope in 1303. Charles spent his last years quietly in Naples, which city 
he improved and embellished.

He died in Naples in May 1309, and was succeeded by his son Robert the Wise.

Family[edit]

In 1270, he married Maria of Hungary (c. 1257 – 25 March 1323), the daughter of 
Stephen V of Hungary and Elizabeth the Cuman.[2] They had fourteen children:
1.Charles Martel of Anjou, titular King of Hungary[3]
2.Margaret (1273– 31 December 1299),[3] Countess of Anjou and Maine, married at 
Corbeil 16 August 1290 to Charles of Valois
3.Saint Louis of Toulouse (9 February 1274, Nocera Inferiore – 19 August 1298, 
Chateau de Brignoles), Bishop of Toulouse[3]
4.Robert the Wise,[3] King of Naples
5.Philip I of Taranto,[3] Prince of Achaea and Taranto, Despot of Romania, Lord of 
Durazzo, titular Emperor of Constantinople
6.Blanche of Anjou (1280 – 14 October 1310, Barcelona), married at Villebertran 1 
November 1295 James II of Aragon[3]
7.Raymond Berengar (1281–1307), Count of Provence, Prince of Piedmont and Andria
8.John (1283 – aft. 16 March 1308), a priest
9.Tristan (1284–bef. 1288)
10.Eleanor of Anjou, (August 1289 – 9 August 1341, Monastery of St. Nicholas, Arene, 
Elis), married at Messina 17 May 1302 Frederick III of Sicily[3]
11.Maria of Naples (1290 – c. 1346), married at Palma de Majorca 20 September 1304 
Sancho I of Majorca, married 1326 Jaime de Ejerica (1298 – April 1335)
12.Peter (1291 – 29 August 1315, Battle of Montecatini), Count of Gravina
13.John of Gravina (1294 – 5 April 1336, Naples), Duke of Durazzo, Prince of Achaea, 
and Count of Gravina, married March 1318 (div 1321) Matilda of Hainaut (29 
November 1293–1336), married 14 November 1321 Agnes of Périgord (d. 1345)[3]
14.Beatrice (1295 – c. 1321), married April 1305 Azzo VIII d'Este, marchese of Ferrara 
etc. (d. 1308); she married secondly 1309 Bertrand III of Baux, Count of Andria (d. 
1351)

Parents
____ Charles I (21 Mar 1227 - 7 Jan 1285)
DE PROVENCE (DE SAVOY) Beatrice (1234 - 23 Sep 1267)

Siblings
____ Charles II "le Boiteux" ("the lame") (1248 - 5 May 1309)

Marriage To OF HUNGARY Maria (ABT 1257 - 25 Mar 1323)
    m. 6 Aug 1270 Naples, Italy

Notes

Parents
____ Stephen (Istvan) V (Dec 1239 - 6 Aug 1272)
OF BOSNIA Elizabeth (Erzsebet) (1239 - AFT 1290)

Children by OF HUNGARY Maria ABT 1257 - 25 Mar 1323
____ Margaret (Marguerite) (ABT 1273 - 31 Dec 1299)

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