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(1234-Cir 1267)
Stephen V of Hungary
(1239-1272)
Elizabeth of Kumanien
(-After 1290)
Charles II the lame of Naples
(1254-1309)
Mary of Hungary
(Cir 1257-1323)
Robert the Wise of Naples
(-1343)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Yolanda of Aragón

Robert the Wise of Naples 1 2

  • Marriage: Yolanda of Aragón
  • Died: 1343

  General Notes:

King Robert I of Naples a.k.a. Robert the Wise, son of King Charles II of Naples the Lame, was Duke of Calabria (1296-1309), King of Naples and (nominal) Jerusalem and Sicily, and Count of Provence and Forcalquier (1309-1343).

He was made King of Naples and Sicily in 1309, his reign being blessed by Rome’s 196th Pope Clement V (born Bertrand de Got in Gascony, France). King Robert I was nicknamed the "the peace-maker of Italy" due to the years of significant changes he made to Naples. Tradesmen from Italy and abroad erected superb buildings, monuments and statues that drastically changed King Robert's capital from a dirty seaport to a city of elegance and medieval splendor.

Head of the Guelph army at Genoa, King Robert reigned until his death in 1343 under Rome’s 199th Pope Clement VI. He was succeeded by his young granddaughter, Jeanne d'Anjou or Joan I of Naples.

King Robert's marriages and descendants:

First wife, Yolanta or Yolanda of Aragon, daughter of King Peter III of Aragon
- Charles (b. 1298, d. 1328), Duke of Calabria (1309), Viceroy of Naples (1318)
- Louis (b. 1301, d. 1310)

Second wife, Sancha, daughter of King James II of Majorca

Unknown mistress
- Fiametta -> married Andrea Thopia, Lord of Matija

  Noted events in his life were:

• He was a King of Naples.


Robert married Yolanda of Aragón, daughter of Pedro III the Great of Aragón and Constance of Sicily Hohenstaufens.


Sources


1 Brian C. Tompsett, Directory of Royal Genealogical (Datahttp://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html
Brian Tompsett
Department of Computer Science
University of Hull
Hull, UK, HU6 7RX
B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk).

2 Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/).

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