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Charles I of Anjou

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Charles I of Anjou (1226–1285)

King of Naples and Sicily (the Two Sicilies) from 1265, Count of Anjou, and seventh son of Louis VIII of France. He was offered the crown of Naples and Sicily by Pope Urban IV, and defeated his Hohenstaufen rivals, Manfred and Conradin of Swabia, to become one of the most powerful monarchs in Europe.

He planned to invade the Balkan peninsula and re-establish the Latin empire of Constantinople, but was prevented from this by the Sicilian Vespers in 1282, a revolt against French rule by his Sicilian subjects.



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