Peace of Caltabellotta
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The Peace of Caltabellotta, signed on 31 August 1302, was the last of a series of treaties, including those of Tarascon and Anagni, designed to end the War of the Sicilian Vespers between the Houses o
The Madrice complex in Caltabellotta, near which stood the castle where the signing took place
Charles II of Naples
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Charles II, also known as Charles the Lame, was King of Naples, Count of Provence and Forcalquier, Prince of Achaea, and Count of Anjou and Maine; he also was King of Albania, and claimed the Kingdom
Peace of Caltabellotta
…III, who had been ruling it; the Mezzogiorno, called the Kingdom of Sicily contemporaneously but the Kingdom of Naples by modern scholarship, went to Charles II, who had been ruling it. Thus, the peace was formal recognition of an uneasy status quo. The treaty also stipulated that Trinacria would pass to the…
Charles, his wife Mary and their children in the Bible of Naples, 1340