Kingdom of Naples
| Kingdom of Sicily (Naples) Regnum Neapolitanum (Latin) Regno di Napoli (Italian) |
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| Sovereign State under several branches of the Capetian Anjous (1282-1442) Part of the Crown of Aragon (1442-1458) Sovereign State under a cadet branch of the Aragonese House of Trastámara (1458-1501) Personal union of the Kingdom of France (1501-1504) Part of the Spanish Empire (1504–1714) Part of the Habsburg Empire (1714–1735) Sovereign State under a branch of the Bourbons (1735–1806) & (1815–1816) Client state of the French Empire (1806–1815) |
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| Capital | Naples | |||||
| Government | Feudal absolute monarchy | |||||
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| • | 1282–1285 | Charles I (first) | ||||
| • | 1806–1808 | Joseph I (last) | ||||
| History | ||||||
| • | Sicilian Vespers | 1282 | ||||
| • | Peace of Caltabellotta | 31 August 1302 | ||||
| • | Treaty of Rastatt | 7 March 1714 | ||||
| • | Battle of Campo Tenese | 10 March 1806 | ||||
| • | Two Sicilies established | 1808 | ||||
| Today part of |
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The Kingdom of Naples (Neapolitan: Regno 'e Napule, Italian: Regno di Napoli), comprising the southern part of the Italian Peninsula, was the remainder of the old Kingdom of Sicily after the secession of the island of Sicily as a result of the Vespers of 1282. It continued to be officially known as the Kingdom of Sicily, although it no longer included the island of Sicily. For much of its existence, the realm was contested between French and Spanish dynasties. In 1816, it was reunified with the island kingdom of Sicily once again to form the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Following the rebellion in 1282, King Charles I of Sicily (Charles of Anjou) was forced to leave the island of Sicily by Peter III of Aragon's troops. Charles, however, maintained his possessions on the mainland, customarily known as the "Kingdom of Naples", after its capital city.
Charles and his Angevin successors maintained a claim to Sicily, warring against the Aragonese until 1373, when Queen Joan I of Naples formally renounced the claim by the Treaty of Villeneuve. Joan's reign was contested by Louis the Great, the Angevin King of Hungary, who captured the kingdom several times (1348–1352).
Queen Joan I also played a part in the ultimate demise of the first Kingdom of Naples. As she was childless, she adopted Louis I, Duke of Anjou, as her heir, in spite of the claims of her cousin, the Prince of Durazzo, effectively setting up a junior Angevin line in competition with the senior line. This led to Joan I's murder at the hands of the Prince of Durazzo in 1382, and his seizing the throne as Charles III of Naples.
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