Kingdom of Naples

The kingdom of Naples was born from the scission of the Royaume of Sicily caused by the sicilian Vêpres of 1282. The king Charles of Anjou was driven out island of Sicily by the troops of Pierre III of Aragon. He was maintained only on the continental part of the kingdom, which one has habit to call the “kingdom of Naples”, although makes of it the royal title relating only to Sicily, kings known as of Naples were entitled kings de Sicile.

This dynasty angevine essaima in Hungary. In 1442, the king Alphonse V of Aragon seized the kingdom of Naples, and created the Royaume of Deux-Siciles, dependence of the Couronne of Aragon. With its death, the kingdom was again separate, and its bastard, Ferdinand, inherited Naples.

In 1501, the heir to the king Ferdinand, Frederic II was dispossessed by his/her cousin the king Ferdinand II of Aragon which seized Naples, during a fight with the king Louis XII of France, heir to the claims angevines in Italy, and reformed the kingdom of Deux-Siciles.

The Traité of Rastatt of 1714 left Naples to the emperor Charles VI. In 1720, Charles VI annexed the Sicily and reunified the kingdom of Deux-Siciles again, before this one passes to the Capétiens in 1734.

In 1806, Napoleon Bonaparte created a kingdom of Naples which he entrusted to his brother Joseph, then with his/her brother-in-law Joachim Murat, who in is deposed in May 1815, after its defeat with the Bataille of Tolentino.

See too

List of the kings de Sicile

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