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		After his death, she was forced to marry King Ladislas of Naples in 1406.
		Ladislas died on 6 August 1414; his sister and successor Joan II of Naples, described as cruel, hated Mary and imprisoned her.
		Joan's husband James II, Count of La Marche however soon allowed her to go.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Mary_of_Enghien (634 words)

	Joan II of Naples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joan II (1371-1435), was Queen of Naples from 1414 to 1435.
		Daughter of Charles III of Naples d 1386 and Margherita of Durazzo d 1412, she succeeded her brother Ladislas of Naples in 1414.
		Joanna II adopted firstly 1420 Alfonso V of Aragon and secondly 1423 Louis III of Anjou.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joan_II_of_Naples (456 words)

	Kingdom of Naples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles, however, maintained his possessions on the mainland, customarily known as the "Kingdom of Naples." Charles and his Angevin successors maintained a claim to Sicily, warring against the Aragonese until in 1373, Queen Joan I of Naples formally renounced the claim.
		Joan II of Naples adopted Alfons V of Aragon (whom she later repudiated) and Louis III of Anjou as heirs alternately, finally settling succession on Louis' son René of Anjou (later René I of Naples) of the junior Angevin line.
		Under the terms of the treaty of Rastatt in 1714, Naples was given to Charles VI, the Holy Roman Emperor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingdom_of_Naples (429 words)

	JOAN OF ARC - LoveToKnow Article on JOAN OF ARC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Joan's knowledge of the prophecy does not, however, appear till 1429; and already before that, from 1424, according'to her account at her trial, she 1 In the act of ennoblement the name is spelt Day, due probably to the peculiar pronunciation.
		Joan, at his importunity, remained with the army, but the king played her false when she attempted the capture of Paris; and after a failure on the 8th of September, when Joan was wounded,2 his troops were disbanded.
		Joan went into Normandy to assist the duke of Alencon, but in December returned to the court, and on the 29th she and her family were ennobled with the surname of du Lis.
	35.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JO/JOAN_OF_ARC.htm (2509 words)

	Encyclopedia: Joan II of Naples
		King Ladislas of Naples, the Magnanimous (February 11, 1377â€“August 6, 1414), was King of Naples and titular King of Jerusalem and Sicily, titular Count of Provence and Forcalquier 1386â€“1414, and titular King of Hungary 1390â€“1414.
		RenÃ©; II (May 2, 1451â€“December 10, 1508) was count of Vaudemont from 1470, Duke of Lorraine from 1473, and Duke of Bar and titular King of Aragon, Naples, Sicily and Jerusalem from 1483 to his death.
		European nobility stubs King Ladislas of Naples, the Magnanimous (February 11, 1377â€“August 6, 1414), was King of Naples and titular King of Jerusalem and Sicily, titular Count of Provence and Forcalquier 1386â€“1414, and titular King of Hungary 1390â€“1414.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Joan-II-of-Naples (1170 words)

	Louis III of Naples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis III (1403 – 12 November 1434) was titular King of Naples 1417–1426, Count of Provence, Forcalquier, Piedmont, and Maine and Duke of Anjou 1417–1434, and Duke of Calabria 1426–1434.
		He was the eldest son and heir of Louis II of Anjou and Yolande of Aragon, Queen of Four Kingdoms.
		Louis's family had been longtime rivals of the Anjou-Durazzo family regarding the kingdom of Naples, but the last heir of that line, Joan II of Naples was childless and approaching old age.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_III_of_Naples (231 words)

	René I of Naples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born in the castle of Angers, and was the second son of Louis II of Anjou, king of Sicily, and of Yolande of Aragon.
		Louis II died in 1417, and his sons, together with their brother-in-law, afterwards Charles VII of France, were brought up under the guardianship of their mother.
		He had succeeded to the throne of the Kingdom of Naples through the deaths of his brother Louis III and of Joan II, queen of Naples, the last heir of the earlier dynasty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rene_of_Anjou (1512 words)

	Encyclopedia: Louis II of Anjou
		The Angevin French prince, Louis II of Anjou (1377 - 1417) was the rival of Ladislas as king of Naples.
		Louis II was the son of Louis I of Anjou, king of Naples, and came into his Anjou inheritance, which included Provence, in 1384, with his rival Ladislas, king of Naples in the elder Anjou line, in possession of Naples.
		Louis III of Anjou, (reigned 1417 - 1434), titular King of Naples, adopted by Queen Joan II of Naples in 1403 and married (1432) Margaret of Savoy
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Louis-II-of-Anjou (1534 words)

	Joan of England, Joanna Plantagenet, Queen of Sicily - Best of Sicily Magazine
		That Joan of England never produced a surviving heir to the Sicilian throne is historically significant because it heralded the effective end of the Hauteville dynasty of Norman kings of Sicily.
		Joan's relationship with her father probably left something to be desired, and this may partly account for her later devotion to Saint Thomas Becket, the archbishop her father's nobles murdered.
		Joan's voyage to Sicily, accompanied by a large suite of ladies-in-waiting, knights, clergy and various retainers (everything from cooks and seamstresses to grooms and flsmiths), was typical of the travels of royalty and the highest-born nobility in the Middle Ages.
	www.bestofsicily.com /mag/art142.htm (2976 words)

	René I of Naples - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		René d'Anjou, René I of Naples (René I the Good, French Le bon roi René) (January 16, 1409–July 10, 1480), was Duke of Anjou, Count of Provence (1434–1480), Count of Piedmont, Duke of Bar (1430–1480), Duke of Lorraine (1431–1453), King of Naples (1438–1442; titular 1442–1480) and titular King of Jerusalem and Sicily.
		He had succeeded to the kingdom of Naples through the deaths of his brother Louis III and of Joan II, queen of Naples, the last heir of the earlier dynasty.
		His only surviving male descendant was then René II, Duke of Lorraine, son of his daughter Yolande, Countess of Vaudemont, who was gained over to the party of Louis XI, who suspected the king of Sicily of complicity with his enemies, the Duke of Brittany and the Constable Saint-Pol.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Rene_of_Anjou (1439 words)

	Joan
		Joan is mainly a female name in the English language, but a male name in French and in Catalan.
		Joan of Kent was the wife of Edward the Black Prince and mother of Richard II of England
		Joan Daemen, the Belgian cryptographer and inventor of Rijndael
	www.1bx.com /en/Joan.htm (180 words)

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		Joan opened her arms and held her in a long embrace; far Dona Cancha was far more to her than a lady-in-waiting; she was the companion of infancy, the depositary of all her secrets, the confidante of her most private thoughts.
		Joan, standing in the middle of the chamber, pallid, her eyes fixed on the curtains of the bed, concealed her agitation with a smile, and took one step forward towards her governess, stooping to receive the kiss which the latter bestowed upon her every morning.
		Joan, clad in the royal robe, with the crown upon her head, uttered her oath of fidelity between the hands of the apostolic legate in the presence of her husband, who stood behind her simply as a witness, just like the other princes of the blood.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Joanna
		She was the daughter of Ferdinand II and Isabella I and inherited Castile and León at her mother's death.
		(Charles of Durazzo), 1345-86, king of Naples (1381-86) and, as Charles II, of Hungary (1385-86); great-grandson of Charles II of Naples.
		She belonged to the house of Anjou, and her marriage to the brother of the king of Hungary was intended to reconcile Hungarian and Angevin claims on...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Joanna&StartAt=1 (852 words)

	Alfonso V
		The queen of Naples, Joan II, then sought his help against Louis III of Anjou and adopted him as her son and heir.
		His opportunity seemed to come in 1435, after the deaths of Louis III of Anjou and Queen Joan II, but while blockading the port of Gaeta, a key citadel from which to launch an attack on Naples, he was defeated off the island of Ponza by a Genoese squadron.
		In the Kingdom of Naples he was succeeded by his illegitimate son, Ferrante, and in his other states by his brother John (King John II of Aragon), who had been king of Navarre since 1425.
	www.wga.hu /tours/spain/alfonso5.html (955 words)

	Genealogy Index for surnames beginning with N
		NAMUR, Richilda of Hainault and (-15 MAR 1086)
		NAPLES, Ferdinand (Ferrante) II of (26 AUG 1469-)
		Naples, Leonora of (22 JUN 1450-11 OCT 1493)
	www.maximiliangenealogy.co.uk /html/idxn.html (318 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Angevin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		In 1266 Charles was granted the crown of Naples and Sicily by the Pope in return for overthrowing the territories' Hohenstaufen rulers.
		The line became extinct with the death of Joan II of Naples in 1435.
		In the 1350s, a junior branch of the Capet-Anjou was originated when King John II of France, of Valois line of Capetians, whose grandmother had been a princess of the senior Angevin line (eldest daughter of Charles II of Naples), gave the Duchy of Anjou to his second son, Louis.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Angevin (650 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Jane.
		Being invited to Paris to attend the espousals of her son with Margaret de Valo’is, she was poisoned by Catharine de’ Medicis (1572); Jane, Countess of Hainault, daughter of Baldwin, and wife of Fernand of Portugal, who was made prisoner at the battle of Bouvines in 1214.
		Handsome, Archduke of Austria; Jane I. of Naples married Andrew of Hungary, whom she caused to be murdered, and then married the assassin.
		Jeanne la Pucelle [Joan of Arc] cannot be called a ruler, but her lot was not more happy; etc. etc.
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	Classics in the History of Psychology -- Griffith (1921)
		An example of this static sort of description is taken from a current history of Italy:[11] "Robert the Wise (of Anjou) (1309-1343), the successor of Charles II of Naples, and the champion of the Guelphs, could not extend his power over Sicily where Frederick II (1296-1337) the son of Peter of Aragon, reigned.
		Robert's granddaughters, Joan I, after a career of crime and misfortune, was strangled in Prison by Charles Durazzo, the last male descendant of the house of Anjou in lower Italy (I382) who seized the government.
		Joan II, the last heir of Durazzo (1414-1435), first adopted: Alfonso V, of Aragon, and then Louis III, of Anjou, and his brother René;.
	psychclassics.yorku.ca /Griffith/neglected.htm (4626 words)

	Around Naples Encyclopedia 23
		Naples is the name of the city as well as of the larger administrative unit—the province—of which it is the capital.
		The Naples observatory, itself, is located on the Capodimonte hill and has its roots in the—if not infinite, at least benevolently despotic—wisdom of Charles III of Bourbon; he endowed a Chair of Navigation and Astronomy at the University of Naples in 1735.
		In 1687 he was invited to Spain by Charles II of Spain (known as "The Little King" in Neapolitan lore), the last king of the once mighty Spanish Empire.
	faculty.ed.umuc.edu /~jmatthew/naples/blog23.htm (12782 words)

	Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg1486 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Charles II DE LORRAINE was born 1364 and died 1431.
		Ferry II of Vaudémont DE LORRAINE [Parents] was born 1428.
		René II DE LORRAINE was born 2 May 1451 and died 10 Dec 1508.
	www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /maximilia/pafg1486.htm (187 words)

	history
		Charles I was the son of Rainier I and the father of Rainier II.
		This policy was continued by John II and Lucien until the death of the latter, assassinated in 1523 by his cousin Bartholomew Doria.
		The lordships which had been given to his predecessors by Charles V in the Kingdom of Naples were replaced by those which were to become known in the Principality as the "French lands": the Duchy of Valentinois, the Viscount of Carlat in Auvergne and the Marquisate of Baux with the lordship of Saint-Rémy in Provence.
	www.monaco-consulate.com /about_history.htm (5111 words)

	Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg1487 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Charles II of DURAZZO [Parents] was born 1345.
		Ferry II of Vaudémont DE LORRAINE was born 1428 and died 31 Aug 1470.
		William II the Middle of HESSE [Parents] was born 29 Mar 1469.
	www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /maximilia/pafg1487.htm (188 words)

	Taranto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The Byzantine emperor Nicephorus II Phocas understood the importance of a strong military presence and harbour in southern Italy, and rebuilt the city.
		The principality ended, but the kings of Naples continued giving the title of Prince of Taranto to their sons, firstly to the future Alfonso II of Naples, Duke of Calabria, eldest son of Isabella.
		In March 1502, the Spanish fleet of Ferdinand II of Aragon, allied to Louis XII of France, seized the port of Taranto, and conquered the city.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Taranto.htm (4292 words)

	The Town of L'Aquila
		This was the year in wich Charles I of Anjou, having taken possession of the kingdom of Sicily, called for the recostruction of the town; in 1972, due to the efforts of Captain Lucchesino, work on the city walls was commenced and the city was divided in 4 quarters.
		When the house of Aragon tried to sieze the throne of naples from the House of Anjou, the city loyal to Joan II of Anjou, was once again besieged, a situation which lasted for 13 months.
		The city resisted and when the Aragons were finally defeated, Queen Joan II to thank L'Aquila for its loyality, conceded a series of privilegies destined to argument the town's economic and social development.
	www.aquila.infn.it /aquila (2678 words)

	Joan II of Naples -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Joan II (1371-1435), was Queen of (A port and tourist center in southwestern Italy; capital of the Campania region) Naples from 1414 to 1435.
		Daughter of (additional info and facts about Charles III of Naples) Charles III of Naples, she succeeded her brother (additional info and facts about Ladislas of Naples) Ladislas of Naples.
		She adopted (additional info and facts about Alfonso V of Aragon) Alfonso V of Aragon and (additional info and facts about Louis III of Anjou) Louis III of Anjou as heirs alternately, finally settling succession on Louis' son (additional info and facts about René of Anjou) René of Anjou (later René I of Naples).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/joan_ii_of_naples1.htm (158 words)

	Chapter 1 Page 3
		She was of a beauty so unusual and so marvellous, that her grandfather was fascinated by the dazzling sight, and mistook her for an angel that God had sent to console him on his deathbed.
		Beside Joan stood her younger sister, Marie, who was twelve or thirteen years of age, the second daughter of Charles, Duke of Calabria, who had died before her birth, and whose mother, Marie of Valois, had unhappily been lost to her from her cradle.
		In the third group stood the widow of Philip, Prince of Tarentum, the king's brother, honoured at the court of Naples with the title of Empress of Constantinople, a style inherited by her as the granddaughter of Baldwin II.
	www.web-books.com /Classics/Dumas/Joan/Dumas_JoanC1P3.htm (982 words)

	Naples
		In 1420 Alfonso attacked Corsica, but hastened to Naples at the request of its queen, Joanna II, who, in return for his assistance against Louis III of Anjou, named Alfonso her heir.
		Ferdinand I. King of Naples (1759-1806, 1815-25) as Ferdinand IV and of the Two Sicilies (1816-25) as Ferdinand I. Third son of Charles III of Spain; under regency of Bernardo Tanucci (1759-67); weak and inept ruler; m.
		Son of Charles III of Durazzo, of the house of Anjou; at war with rival Louis II of Anjou (1391-99); led expedition into Dalmatia and crowned himself king (1404); planned conquests in central Italy (1400-14); twice seized Rome (1408-09, 1413); defeated at Roccasecca (1411).
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/naples.htm (861 words)

	Amazon.com: Mildred Pierce (Keepcase): DVD: Joan Crawford,Jack Carson,Zachary Scott,Eve Arden,Ann Blyth,Bruce ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Angelica Huston narrates this film that follows Joan Crawford's career and personal life from her arrival in Hollywood in 1925 as an MGM contract player, through 2 studios, 4 marriages, and over 90 films, until her death in 1977.
		Joan morphs into Mildred and the magic of success overcomes both as this film was the one that established Ms.
		Published 11 months ago by K.C. Joan Crawford is no longer the loveless "shop girl" when she goes to work for Warners playing Mildred Pierce in her comeback picture after MGM dropped her.
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