War of the Sicilian Vespers

A scene of the Sicilian Vesper by Francesco Hayez

Date	1282–1302
Location	The Mediterranean; primarily Sicily, the Mezzogiorno, Aragon, and Catalonia
Result	Division of the kingdom of Sicily into Aragonese Trinacria and Angevin Naples

Belligerents

Crown of Aragon

Kingdom of Trinacria

Byzantine Empire

Angevin Kingdom of Naples

Kingdom of France

Kingdom of Majorca

The War of the Sicilian Vespers or just War of the Vespers was a conflict that started with the insurrection of the Sicilian Vespers against Charles of Anjou in 1282, and ended in 1302 with the peace of Caltabellotta. It was fought in Sicily, Catalonia (the Aragonese Crusade) and elsewhere in the western Mediterranean between, on one side, the Angevin Charles of Anjou, his son Charles II, the kings of France and the Papacy, and on the other side, the kings of Aragon. The war resulted in the division of the old Kingdom of Sicily; at Caltabellotta, Charles II was confirmed as king of the peninsular territories of Sicily (the Kingdom of Naples), while Frederick III was confirmed as king of the island territories (the Kingdom of Trinacria).

Sicily had been part of a Kingdom of Sicily, which also encompassed the southern Italian peninsula, since the early 12th century, when Roger II of Sicily defeated the Italian mainland barons and was elected king by the pope. His reign had been inherited by Frederick II of Sicily, whose son Manfred was however ousted by the French invasion of Charles I of Anjou in 1266. The French rule soon assumed a repressive and ferocious character.

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