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  Kingdom Of Naples - LoveToKnow 1911
The history of the kingdom of Naples is inextricably interwoven with that of Sicily, with which for long periods it was united as the kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
An English squadron approached Naples and occupied the island of Procida, but after a few engagements with the Republican fleet commanded by Caracciolo, an ex-officer in the Bourbon navy, it was recalled to Palermo, as the Franco-Spanish fleet was expected.
On the 23rd the Austrians entered Naples, followed soon afterwards by the king; every vestige of freedom was suppressed, the reactionary Medici ministry appointed, and the inevitable state trials instituted with the usual harvest of executions and imprisonment.
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 Ladislas of Naples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coat of Arms of Ladislas, as titular King of Hungary, titular King of Jerusalem, and King of Naples.
Ladislas the Magnanimous (also spelled Ladislaus; 11 February 1377 6 August 1414), was King of Naples and titular King of Jerusalem and Sicily, titular Count of Provence and Forcalquier (1386 1414), and titular King of Hungary (1390 1414).
He was born in Naples, the son of Charles III and Margherita of Durazzo.
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 The Age of Chivalry - 15th Century AD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Louis of Anjou defeats Ladislas of Naples at the battle of Rocca Secca.
Ladislas V Postumus is King of Bohemia and Hungary; Vladislas III of Poland a rival in Hungary.
Death of Ladislas V of Hungary and Bohemia.
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 A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH To the Eve of the Reformation : L.2, C.5.
Ladislas of Naples, too, remained faithful to Gregory XII: by now he was master of almost the whole of the Papal States.
Malatesta and Ladislas of Naples continued the war on behalf of Gregory XII, but John retained Rome and occupied the city in April 1411.
Ladislas was next beaten in the field, re- excommunicated by John, and a crusade preached against him; and in June 1412, brought for the moment to his knees, he opened negotiations with John and on October 16 acknowledged him as pope.
www.franciscan-sfo.org /ap/hu/hc2-5.htm   (10713 words)

  
 A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH To the Eve of the Reformation : L.2, C.4.
But the populace rose in indignation that, in Naples, a Frenchman should be preferred to a pope who was a Neapolitan, and three days only after his arrival Clement had to flee to save his life.
If he was not safe in Naples he could be safe nowhere in Italy; his first -- and, as it happened, his main -- attempt to drive Urban from Rome had failed indeed; nine months to the day after his election Clement sailed for Avignon (June 20, 1379).
Ladislas demanded that whenever Gregory and Benedict met, he must be present.
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 KINGDOM OF NAPLES - Online Information article about KINGDOM OF NAPLES
Bay of Naples; where the king's son, Charles the Lame, was captured.
Guelph leader owing to the rise of other powerful princes and republics, while in Naples itself his authority was limited by the rights of a turbulent and rebellious baronage (see ROBERT, king of Naples).
Carlos of Bourbon, son of Philip V. of Spain, easily conquered both Naples and Sicily, and in 1738 he was recognized as king of the Two Sicilies, Spain renouncing all her claims.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /NAN_NEW/NAPLES_KINGDOM_OF.html   (5546 words)

  
 History Of Italy
Naples was ruled by the French Angevin dynasty until the succession passed to Alfonso the Magnanimous of Aragon in 1435.
Despite a major revolt led by Masaniello in Naples in 1647, Spanish rule continued in the 17th century, although it was repeatedly challenged by the French, especially during the reign of Louis XIV.
In the revolutions that occurred in Naples in 1820 and in Piedmont in 1821, the demand was primarily for constitutional government.
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 Orsini
After the death of Nicholas III (1280), the cardinals assembled in Viterbo for the election of his successor, but, owing to party dissensions, many months passed before a decision was reached.
The party which inclined towards the French, and which had the support of Charles of Anjou, King of Naples, himself present in Viterbo, wished to elect an exponent of the policy of France, and chose as their candidate the French Cardinal Simon.
Later, however, he entered the service of Naples to oppose King Charles VIII of France (1483-98); in 1494, however, he took the side of the latter, and was imprisoned on this account.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/o/orsini.html   (3739 words)

  
 Papacy in the Late Middle Ages - Knox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Alexander went to Bologna because Rome was under the control of Naples.
Baldassare Cossa, from Naples, was a solid member of the Roman faction, but was also a key player in the Councils.
John tried to hold his own general council at Rome in 1413, but because of the schism and the uncertain political situation, it was very poorly attended.
www.idbsu.edu /courses/latemiddleages/papacy/23.shtml   (380 words)

  
 Kings of Jerusalem - Wikipedia Mirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The title was also continuously used by the Angevin Kings of Naples, whose founder, Charles of Anjou, had bought a claim to the throne from Mary of Antioch.
As Naples was a papal fief, the Popes often endorsed the title of King of Jerusalem as well as of Naples, and the history of these claims is that of the Neapolitan Kingdom.
Charles VI 1711–1740, who lost the Kingdom of Naples in 1734 to a Bourbon prince, the future Charles III of Spain, and renounced his claims, retaining his titles to Naples and Jerusalem during his lifetime.
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 The National Kingdom
Ladislas had only a daughter, and designated as his successor Almus, the younger of Géza's two sons, the elder, Kálmán, having been destined for the church.
Ladislas I, who, like Stephen and his son, Imre, was canonised after his death, was the outstanding personality among them: a true paladin and gentle knight, a protector of his faith and his people, and of the poor and defenceless.
From the loyal Hungarians' point of view the most serious aspect of Ladislas' refusal to have commerce with his wife had been the danger that this might involve the extinction of the dynasty; for Ladislas' only brother had predeceased him, dying unmarried, as had his only paternal uncle.
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 A XV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In 1401 the rebellious barons invited Ladislas of Naples, the son of Charles II to the throne.
Ladislas V could not exercise his royal rights until Wladislas I died in the battle of Varna in 1444, but even then he stayed on in the Austrian court of Frederick III for a long time.
After the death of Ladislas V in 1458, Matthias of Hunyadi was elected king of Hungary.
web.axelero.hu /visegradmuz/visegrad/eng/to706_09.htm   (554 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Robert of Baux and others
She married Ladislas d'Anjou, King of Naples, son of Charles III d'Anjou, King of Naples and Margaret of Durazzo, in 1392.
She married Ladislas d'Anjou, King of Naples, son of Charles III d'Anjou, King of Naples and Margaret of Durazzo, in 1402.
She married Ladislas d'Anjou, King of Naples, son of Charles III d'Anjou, King of Naples and Margaret of Durazzo, in 1406.
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 Chronology History of Naples
This kingdom was conquered successively by the Hohenstaufens (Swabia) and the Angevins (Anjou and Provence); Charles I of Anjou moved the capital to Naples.
On the death of Ferdinand, Naples, with Spain, is inherited by his grandson Charles of Hapsburg (Charles I of Spain, after 1519 Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire)
Peter II Louis, inheriting the throne at the age of four, is unable to establish a strong government and accepts a tributary relationship to the papacy.
www.delbalzo.net /cronology.htm   (1491 words)

  
 Romania - History - Empire Period - 14th Century - 1380-1389   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ladislas of Naples, the underage son of the late King Charles, attempted to claim the throne.
According to the terms of the agreement, Ladislas pledged to adopt Catholicism and to unite Lithuania with Poland in exchange for Jadwiga's hand and the Polish crown.
With this marriage was born a vast confederation of states that stretched from the Baltic coast across the Ukraine to the Black Sea.
www.romerica.com /rom/hist_ad1300_80.htm   (1813 words)

  
 italyguide - monumenti e itinerari - campania monuments and museums: Naples, Salerno, Pompei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Built to house the body of King Ladislas of Naples (1386 - 1414), who enlarged the church, the tomb is a three - storey confection of statues and arches topped by an equestrian figure.
The tomb slab of John of Durazzo (died 1335), by Tino da Camaino, is in the south transept.
Commemorating Alfonso of Aragon's entry to Naples in 1443, this ingenious application of the ancient triumphal arch design was worked on, at least in a part, by Laurana.
www.italyguide.com /Monument/htcamp.htm   (2475 words)

  
 Pope Alexander V
He was crowned on June 26, 1409 making him in reality the third rival pontiff.
During his ten month reign Alexander V's aim was to extend his obedience with the assistance of France, and, notably, of the Duke Louis II of Anjou[?], upon whom he conferred the investiture of the Kingdom of Sicily[?], having removed it from Ladislas of Naples[?].
He proclaimed and promised rather than effected a certain number of reforms: the abandonment of the rights of "spoils" and "procurations," the re-establishment of the system of canonical election in the cathedral churches and principal monasterie.
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 Saint Frances of Rome, by Lady Georgiana Fullerton
The wars for the succession of the kingdom of Naples, between Louis of Anjou and Ladislas Durazzo, were agitating the whole of Italy; and the capital of the Christian world was exposed to all the fury of the contending parties.
After Ladislas of Naples, befriended by the enemies of the Pope, and in 1408 gained possession of Rome by fraudulent means he left behind him as governor of the city the Count Pietro Traja, a rough and brutal soldier, well fitted to serve the fierce passions of his master.
The troops of Lewis of Anjou, the rival of Ladislas in the kingdom of Naples, had in the mean time entered that portion of Rome which went by the name of the Leonine City, and gained possession of the Vatican and the castle of Saint Angelo.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/stf10002.htm   (18475 words)

  
 Titles of European hereditary rulers
After the division of the original Kingdom of Sicily, the Kingdom of Naples was called "Sicily on this side of the Lighthouse", (the lighthouse marked the straits of Messina), in Latin, "Sicilia citra Farum".
King Ferdinand (+1824) was known as Ferdinand IV in Naples and as Ferdinand III in Sicily.
In 1501 Louis XII, King of France, agreed to divide the Kingdom of Naples with Ferdinand II "the Catholic", King of Aragon and Sicily.
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 Amazon.com: "Ladislas of Naples": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A large group was formed in support of Ladislas of Naples, while Sigismund of Luxembourg, the young queen's fianc, tried to rally nobles loyal to the queens.
In spite of his Catharism, Hrvoje Vukci was made by Ladislas of Naples, Duke of Spalatro and lord of some of the Dalmatian islands, thus making Catharism dominant along the shore.
The indulgence published, in 1412, for the crusade against Ladislas of Naples, the vending of which in Prague aroused the opposition of John Huss, and was the proximate cause of the Bohemian...
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 The Historical, Political, and Diplomatic Writings of Niccolo Machiavelli, (1882) vol. 1: The Online Library of Liberty
Beyond that, for the better understanding of each period, before I treat of Florence I shall relate by what means Italy came to be under the rule of those potentates who governed her at that time.
The third will finish in 1414 with the death of King Ladislaus of Naples; and with the fourth we shall reach the year 1434, from which time forward will be described particularly the events that occurred, within Florence and without, up to our times.
He was killed, and after him the kingdom fell to Totilas, who routed the troops of the Emperor and reoccupied Tuscany and Naples, and drove his captains back almost to the extreme limits of the states which Belisarius had recovered.
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 St. John of Capistrano
St. John was a native of Capestrano (or Capistrano) in the province of Abruzzi, then a part of the kingdom of Naples.
Giovanni (to give him his Italian forename) had the misfortune, while still a child, to lose both his father and his brothers in the war of Louis of Anjou against Ladislas of Naples.
But his mother saw to it that at age 15 he enrolled in the University of Perugia as a student of civil and church law.
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 St. Francis de Sales_Saints
John was born at Capistrano, Italy in 1385, the son of a former German knight in that city.
He studied law at the University of Perugia and practiced as a lawyer in the courts of Naples.
King Ladislas of Naples appointed him governor of Perugia.
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 John Huss biography
In 1410 he and his followers were excommunicated, and in the following year the decree was confirmed by the Pope.
In 1411 Pope John XXIII proclaimed a crusade against King Ladislas of Naples and promised indulgences to the volunteers.
Huss the next year gave out a university debate upon the question of indulgences, which only widened the breach between himself and the university authorities and the clergy.
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 sigismund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Mary's rule was contested by Charles II of Naples, a distant cousin of Louis I, who finally was crowned King on December 31, 1385.
In 1403, Pope Boniface IX incites King Ladislas of Naples, son of Charles II, to invade Hungary to claim the throne.
They conquered Dalmatia during the war from 1409 to 1411, although a treaty ceding Dalmatia to Venice was not signed until 1433.
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 Chapter 13: A History of Aragon and Catalonia
The French clergy discovered that they were better off under the Pope than they were under the King, who demanded large contributions from the Church to meet the expenses in which the schism has involved him.
In 1400 Martin was obliged to send another armament to Sicily, where a revolt had been supported by King Ladislas of Naples.
Martin the younger, however, succeeded in crushing the revolt to such purpose that it was possible to turn attention to the problem of Sardinia.
libro.uca.edu /chaytor/hac13.htm   (3236 words)

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