April 12, 2024
FRANCE FEODAL MEDIEVAL ANGERS CHARLES I. OF ANJOU DENIER R!
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ANGERS,COMTÉ D’ANJOU R! CHARLES I. (1246-1285) DENOM: DENIER,SILVER, ABOUT XF.(SUP),R!,LUSTRE,17 MM,0.89 gr. OBV: „+ CAROLVS COMS”,CENTRAL CROSS WITH OMEGA AND LIS REV:”+ANDEGAVENSIS”, FULKO MONOGRAM MINT: ANGERS (1246-1266) REF: BOUD.157 , PdA.1522 , L.729 Google our website: Charles I (21 March 1226 – 7 January 1285), known also as Charles of Anjou , was the King of Sicily by conquest from 1266 though he had received it as a papal grant in 1262 and was expelled from the island in the aftermath of the Sicilian Vespers of 1282. Thereafter, he continued to claim the island, though his power was restricted to the peninsular possessions of the kingdom, with his capital at Naples (and for this he is usually titled King of Naples after 1282, as are his successors). Charles was the youngest son of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile, and hence younger brother of Louis IX of France and Alfonso II of Toulouse. He conquered the Kingdom of Sicily from the Hohenstaufen and began to acquire lands in the eastern Mediterranean. However, the War of the Sicilian Vespers forced him to abandon his plans to reassemble the Latin Empire. By marriage to Beatrice, heiress of Raymond Berengar IV of Provence, he was Count of Provence and Forcalquier from 1246. In 1247, his brother Louis IX made him Count of Anjou and Maine, as appanages of the
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