Joanna I of Naples
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Joanna I of Naples, also known as Johanna I, was Queen of Naples, and Countess of Provence and Forcalquier from 1343 to 1381; she was also Princess of Achaea from 1373 to 1381.
Queen Joanna I, fresco by Niccolò di Tommaso (c. 1360)
Joanna I with her grandfather King Robert the Wise
Miniature depicting Queen Sancia of Mallorca caressing her stepgranddaughters Joanna and Maria, presented to her by their mother Marie of Valois.
Murder of Andrew, Duke of Calabria, painted by Karl Briullov.
Charles III of Naples
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Charles III, also called Charles the Small or Charles of Durazzo, was king of Naples from 1382 to 1386 and also king of Hungary from 1385 to 1386 as Charles II. In 1381, Charles created the chivalric
Joanna I of Naples
…purpose of securing her succession, Joanna arranged the marriage of her niece Margaret of Durazzo with her first cousin (and Joanna's second cousin) Charles of Durazzo, who eventually captured and imprisoned Joanna, and finally ordered her assassination on 27 July 1382. Joanna was the eldest surviving child of Charles…
Charles as depicted in the Chronica Hungarorum, 1488