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  Louis of Sicily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis the Child (1337-16 October 1355) was king of Sicily, then called Trinacria, from 1342 to 1355.
Louis, a Catalan by descent, sent the royal army after the Chiaramonte unto Milazzo.
In an attempt to avoid the plague, Louis left the fortress Agira for the castle of Aci.
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 List of monarchs of Naples and Sicily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sicily was granted, pending its Christian reconquest, to Robert Guiscard as "duke" in 1059 by Pope Nicholas II.
Peter III of Aragon, of the House of Barcelona, conquered Sicily in 1282 and had himself crowned king in opposition to Charles I. The coexistence of the two kingdoms was eventually confirmed by treaty.
To distinguish this kingdom from the Kingdom of Sicily on the mainland, it was often referred to as "Sicily beyond the Lighthouse" or Trinacria.
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 Sicily - MSN Encarta
Sicily is subject to constant drought, not much relieved by the oppressive sirocco wind that blows across the island from North Africa.
In 1127 Roger II, count of Sicily, was recognized as duke of Apulia and Calabria, and in 1130 he assumed the title of king of Sicily.
Soon thereafter, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was divided; Naples remained under the control of the house of Anjou, but the island of Sicily became independent and chose as king Pedro III, king of Aragón, who was connected by marriage with the house of Hohenstaufen.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Louis IX
By this treaty St. Louis gave Henry III all the fiefs and domains belonging to the King of France in the Dioceses of Limoges, Cahors, and Périgueux; and in the event of Alphonsus of Poitiers dying without issue, Saintonge and Agenais would escheat to Henry III.
In 1263, St. Louis was chosen as arbitrator in a difference which separated Henry III and the English barons: by the Dit d'Amiens (24 January, 1264) he declared himself for Henry III against the barons, and annulled the Provisions of Oxford, by which the barons had attempted to restrict the authority of the king.
Louis led an exemplary life, bearing constantly in mind his mother's words: "I would rather see you dead at my feet than guilty of a mortal sin." His biographers have told us of the long hours he spent in prayer, fasting, and penance, without the knowlege of his subjects.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/09368a.htm   (1638 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sicily
Though in antiquity Sicily was the granary of Rome, the production of grain (22,275,000 bushels) is not sufficient for the home consumption, a fact to be explained either by the increase of population, or by the system of large estates, or by the primitive methods employed.
Cyprian we learn that the Church in Sicily was in frequent relations with the Church in Rome and in Carthage, and that the questions discussed at those centres were followed with interest in the island.
In the ninth century Syracuse was raised by the Patriarch of Constantinople to the rank of metropolis of Sicily and the adjacent islands.
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 Saint Louis in Sicily - King Louis IX - Best of Sicily Magazine
Louis was taken prisoner during the first one and fell ill during the second.
Louis was succeeded by his son, Philip III, whose wife, Isabella of Aragon, died in January 1271 when she fell off a house while fording a stream near Cosenza, in Calabria, during the family's return to France.
Decades earlier, the golden fleur de lis on a dark blue (azure) field was chosen to represent the Norman kings of Sicily, appearing on the robe of of Roger II depicted in mosaic in the Martorana church in Palermo.
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 History 240
Louis recognized William III as King of England and allowed Dutch to fortify barrier fortresses in the Spanish Netherlands.
Louis XIV had agreed to partition the Spanish Empire to avoid it all going to Austria: negotiated treaties with England and Holland.
Leopold of Austria died and was succeeded by Charles, Philip V’s rival for the throne of Spain.
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 Louis VII of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Louis became involved in a war with Theobald II of Champagne, by permitting Raoul I of Vermandois and seneschal of France, to repudiate his wife, Theobald's niece, and to marry Petronilla of Aquitaine, sister of the queen of France.
Louis VII by a clever manoeuvre threw his army on the Norman frontier and gained Gisors, one of the keys of Normandy.
Louis VII died on September 18, 1180 at the Abbey at Saint-Pont, Allier and is interred in Saint Denis Basilica.
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 Spanish Succession   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
On her marriage to Louis, Marie Thérèse, daughter of Philip IV of Spain, had renounced her rights of inheritance in return for a large dowry.
Louis XIV of France took advantage of the absence of Emperor Leopold I on a campaign against the Turks and of the promised support of James II of England to invade the empire and devastate (1689) the Palatinate.
Louis XIV, exhausted by the War of the Grand Alliance, sought a peaceful solution to the succession controversy and reached an agreement (1698) with King William III of England.
www.louis-xiv.de /louisold/Wars/SpanishSuccession.html   (2372 words)

  
 ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Louis steadfastly refused to be distracted from his crusading goal and refused all these entanglements, except he did send six hundred archers to Bohemond at Antioch.
Louis had arranged for supplies at Cyprus, but he had planned only for a stay of weeks, not months, and he now had far fewer stores than he had hoped.
Louis was in his element here, dispensing justice and arrangement the affairs of government.
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 History of Sicily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
With the intervention of the Greeks in Sicily, the Phoenicians retired themselves in western Sicily, were they had their strongest settlement, which were near the Elimi (Segesta), that were their friends and on whom they could rely upon for help against potential enemies.
Louis XIV, fierce enemy of the kingdom of Spain, was only too happy to comply, and sent a big army and a powerful fleet to protect Messina, with the intent to occupy all of Sicily.
Louis XIV, after five years of resounding victories, on land and sea, against the Spanish and Dutch forces, feeling that his victories over the seas would alarm and prompt the English to intervene, suddenly ended all hostilities against Spain, abandoning Messina to deal with the wrath of the returning Spaniards.
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 Italy
Sicily and Naples then continued separately or together until the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was overrun by Garbaldi, fighting for a united Kingdom of Italy, in 1860.
Southern Italy and Sicily had not been united since the Lombard invasion of 568, and then Sicily was detached from Romania by the Aghlabids between 827 and 878.
Sicily and Naples remained united to Spain until Naples (and Sardina) was ceded to Austria, and Sicily to Savoy, after the War of the Spanish Succession (1713).
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 Paradox Interactive Forums - EEP Anjou (Provence/Lorraine/Naples/Sicily/etc)
Louis II was King of Naples, and disputed it with the Durazzo branch of the Family.
Louis died in 1434 and Joanna in 1435.
Louis III (of Anjou) declared war against her in 1420, on which account she adopted Alfonso V, son of Ferdinand of Aragon and Sicily; but as that prince wished the immediate possession of the kingdom, Joanna adopted Louis III, and after his death in 1434 his brother, René.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=88348&page=1   (7583 words)

  
 History of Sicily
The crown of Sicily (a vassal of the Holy See) was assigned by the Pope to Charles of Anjou, the brother of the King of France.
In 1415, Sicily was joined to the Crown of Aragon and was thus ruled by Viceroys.
At the beginning of the 18C, Sicily was involved in the Spanish and Polish wars of succession (1700-1738).
www.sicilytourist.com /incominginsicily/history.htm   (1045 words)

  
 Kingdom of Sicily
The papal-imperial conflict culminated in 1262 with a papal invitation to Charles of Anjou (brother of King Louis IX of France), to conquer Sicily.
Charles, the founder of the Amgevin dynasty of Naples, ruled from 1266 as Charles I, king of Naples and Sicily.
Peter III of Aragon was made king of Sicily while the former Norman domains on the mainland remained under Amgevin rule as the Kingdom of Naples.
www.arcaini.com /italy/italyhistory/KingdomOfSicily.htm   (367 words)

  
 Sicily - Best of Sicily Magazine. People Places Art Fashion Dance Culture Nature Events. All things Sicilian. Published ...
The last wild horses of Sicily roam the valleys of the Nebrodi Mountains.
Sicily's defiant novelist was Italy's collective conscience, and his message endures.
Born in the 15th century, Sicily's first oil painter had a style and technique far ahead of his time.
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 Saint Louis
Louis IX King of France, son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile, born at Poissy, 25 April, 1215; died near Tunis, 25 August, 1270.
Louis to have been a man of sound common sense, posssessing indefatigable energy, graciously kind and of playful humour, and constantly guarding against the temptation to be imperious.
On the contrary, St. Louis, through his personal qualities as well as his saintliness, increased for many centuries the prestige of the French monarchy (see FRANCE).
www.knightforhire.com /louisix.html   (1688 words)

  
 St. Louis Blues Online | Team
Ray Barile joined the St. Louis Blues in 1995 and will be entering his 12th season with the organization Prior to joining the Blues, Barile was the assistant athletic trainer at Cornell University, working primarily with the Big Red hockey and football teams.
BBert Godin is entering his 13th NHL season and his ninth with the St. Louis Blues as the Head Equipment Manager.
Prior to joining the St. Louis Blues, Godin worked as the Head Equipment Manager for the Cleveland Lumberjacks of the International Hockey League from 1992-97.
www.stlouisblues.com /team/operations.html   (688 words)

  
 Louis Fattore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Louis, named Luigi at birth, was their first child.
Louis Fattore attended Woodrow Wilson High School on Federal Street in East Camden, before transferring to Camden County Vocational School on Browning Road in Pennsauken NJ, where he graduated in 1939, after studying electricity and radio.
Fighting continued on Sicily, and Louis Fattore was killed in action on July 21, 1943.
www.dvrbs.com /ccwd-ww2/CamdenWW2-LouisFattore.htm   (479 words)

  
 Crusader States, Kings of Jerusalem & Cyprus, Templars, Hospitallers, Israel, etc.
Before long, sons of King Frederick II of Sicily, brother of King James of Aragón, succeeded as Dukes, but then sovereignty began to be exercised by Kings of Sicily themselves, starting with Louis.
In 1713, Sicily, Sardinia, and Naples passed to Austria and Savoy with the settlement of the War of the Spanish Succession.
At the death of Isabella, Philip II of Taranto, a son of Charles II was then able to set aside her second husband, Philip of Savoy, and her daughter, Matilda, and return Achaea to the Anjevians.
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 21ST GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Charles Louis of HAPSBURG-LORRAINE Archduke of Austria was born in 1833 in Lorraine - son of Francis.
Maria Annunziata of BOURBON-NAPLES died in 1871 in Austria - wife of Archduke Charles Louis.
Ferdinand of AUSTRIA was born in 1868 in Austria - son of Archduke Charles Louis.
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 The St. Louis Family
The trek by Italian criminals in New Orleans to St. Louis began shortly after the end of the Civil War.
By the time Prohibition arrived, there were five gangs of importance in the St. Louis: The Sicilian Green Ones, the Pillow Gang, the Egan’s Rats, the Hogan Gang, and the Cuckoos.
The leadership of this group, brothers John and Vito Giannola and Alphonse Palizzola, came from the Stoppagleria faction of the Sicilian mafia.
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 Louis-Philippe
Louis-Philippe d'Orléans was a close relative of King Louis XVI, the House of Orléans being a branch of the House of Bourbon.
His father, called Philippe-Egalité, even voted for the death sentence during the trial of Louis XVI (Philippe-Egalité would himself be guillotined several months later).
After the execution of Louis XVI, Louis-Philippe deserted the army and fled abroad.
www.chateauversailles.fr /en/270_Louis-Philippe.php   (505 words)

  
 Carlo Koenig VON SICILY/Beatrix Countess VON PROVENCE
Name: Louis DE SICILY Born: 1248 at: Married: at: Died: 1248 at: Isle De Chypne Spouses:
Name: Carlo II Koenig VON NEAPEL Born: 1254 at: Of, Napoli, Napoli, Italy Married: 1270 at: Died: 5 May 1309 at: Spouses: Maria Princess VON UNGARN
Name: Philippe Koenig VON THESSALONIQUE Born: 1256 at: Of, SICILY Married: 28 May 1268 at: Died: 1275-1347 at: Spouses: Isabel DE VILLEHARDOUIN
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2   Pietro (Peter) Quagliata (1876-19??  born Catenanuova, Sicily; immigrated in 1907 from Termini to St Louis)  .............  +Michela (Josephine?) Pusateri  (born in Termini Imerese, Sicily; married 8/25/1902)  ....................
2   Giovanni (John) Quagliata (1878-1945; born Catenanuova, Sicily. Immigrated 1903 from Termini to St Louis)  .............  +Augustina Restivo (1886-19??; immigrated 1903 from Termini Imerese, Sicily to Chicago)  ....................
2   Giuseppe (Joseph) Quagliata (1885-1971  immigrated 1906 from Montemaggiore, Sicily to St Louis)  .............  +Grace Militello (immigrated 1913 from Montemaggiore, Sicily to St Louis, eventually to Chicago)  ....................
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 Saint Louis Art Museum: Media Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
February 7, 2005 -The Saint Louis Art Museum is pleased to welcome Classical archaeologist Barbara Tsarkirgis Friday Feb. 11 for a free lecture The Ancient Houses of Sicily and Their Mosaics at 7 pm in the Museum auditorium.
In this lecture, she traces the history of mosaic floors from their initial appearance in fifth century B.C. Greece through the late Roman Empire, and looks at the buildings in which these pavements were found.
This free lecture is presented in collaboration with the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), St. Louis Society, and is funded by The Arthur and Helen Baer Foundation.
www.stlouis.art.museum /index.aspx?id=124&obj=46   (206 words)

  
 Renaissance Princes Chronology
Venice defeats Louis I of Hungary at Zara to hold Dalmatia.
1347-1348: Louis I of Hungary invades Naples but fails to dislodge Joanna.
1499: Louis XII of France invades Italy, allied to Rome and Venice.
www.gis.net /~pldr/rench.html   (569 words)

  
 SICILY Perfume - Dolce & Gabbana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
"Introduced by the design house of Dolce & Gabbana in 2003, SICILY PERFUME by Dolce & Gabbana for WOMEN is classified as a flowery fragrance.
This feminine scent posesses a blend of: a rich bouquet of oriental flowers.
SICILY by Dolce & Gabbana EAU DE PARFUM SPRAY.8 OZ SICILY by Dolce & Gabbana EAU DE PARFUM SPRAY 1.7 OZ SICILY by Dolce & Gabbana EAU DE PARFUM SPRAY 3.4 OZ SICILY - Miniatures
www.iperfumemall.com /womens.php?b=SICILY   (183 words)

  
 Gerbinos registered at Ellis Island
Origin/ Sicily -- Panel/ To be inscribed http://www.wallofhonor.com/search_f.asp
-- Origin/ Sicily -- Panel/ To be inscribed
Below, is a list of Gerbinos that arrived into the USA
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