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Naples & Sicily |
827 - 878 |
Byzantine Sicily is occupied by the
Aghlabids
as part of the
Islamic Empire. |
878 - 1035 |
Sicily falls out of
Aghlabid control, but remains part of the Islamic Empire. |
1035 |
The Hauteville brothers arrive
in Italy from Normandy
and found the County of Apulia. |
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Counts (Dukes) of Apulia
AD 1042 - 1154
Based in the southern section of the Italian peninsula and gaining ground to the north to reach Naples. |
1042 - 1046 |
William Iron Arm |
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1046 - 1051 |
Drogo |
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1051 - 1057 |
Humphrey de Hauteville |
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1057 - 1059 |
Robert Guiscard |
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1053 |
The Pope
is defeated and captured and
Benevento is
taken. |
1059 - 1085 |
Robert Guiscard |
Duke of Apulia & Calabria. |
1061 - 1072 |
Robert invades Sicily
in 1061. He captures Bari, the last
Byzantine city in Italy
in 1071, and takes Palermo in 1072. |
1085 - 1111 |
Roger Borsa |
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1111 - 1127 |
William II |
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1127 - 1154 |
Roger II |
Count of Sicily. Duke
of Apulia & Calabria. |
1154 |
The County of
Apulia merges with the County of Sicily to form a single Norman
kingdom of
Naples & Sicily. |
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Counts of Sicily
AD 1072 - 1154
Based in Sicily in a period of conquest that lasted for nineteen years. |
1072 - 1101 |
Roger I Guiscard |
Duke of Apulia. |
1091 |
The conquest of Sicily
is completed. |
1101 - 1105 |
Simon |
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1105 - 1154 |
Roger II |
Duke of Apulia &
Calabria (1127-1154). |
1154 |
The County of
Sicily merges with the County of Apulia
to form a single Norman kingdom of Naples &
Sicily. |
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Norman Kingdom of Naples & Sicily
AD 1154 - 1268
The accession of Roger II to the title of Duke of
Apulia in 1127 brought both that and the County of
Sicily under his control,
and his successor, William the Bad, formally united them as a Norman kingdom. |
1154 - 1166 |
William I the Bad |
First king. |
1166 - 1189 |
William II the Good |
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1190 - 1194 |
Tancred |
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1194 |
William III |
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1194 - 1197 |
Henry (VI) |
Holy Roman Emperor (1190-1197). Son-in-law of
Roger II. |
1197 - 1250 |
Frederick (II) |
Holy Roman Emperor (1212-1250).
King of
Jerusalem
(1225-28). |
1250 - 1254 |
Conrad (IV) |
Holy Roman Emperor (1250-1254). |
1254 - 1266 |
Manfred |
Killed by Charles I of Anjou |
1267 - 1268 |
Conradin |
Killed by Charles I of Anjou. |
1268 |
The kingdom of Naples
& Sicily passes to the Anjevins. |
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Anjevin Kingdom of Naples
AD 1268 - 1435 |
1266 - 1285 |
Charles I of Anjou |
Also King of
Hungary (1308-1342). |
1282 |
At the Sicilian
Vespers of 30 March, Sicily revolts against and massacres its French occupiers. Pedro
III of Aragon is invited in, and the Aragonese line begins
in Sicily, with the Anjevins continuing to rule Naples. |
1285 - 1309 |
Charles II |
King of Naples. |
1309 - 1343 |
Robert |
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1343 - 1382 |
Joanna I |
Murdered by Charles III. |
1382 |
Joanna
wills her lands to Louis I of Anjou, who secures Provence, but her cousin
Charles III conquers Naples. |
1382 - 1386 |
Charles III |
Also Charles II of
Hungary (1385-1386). |
1386 - 1414 |
Ladislas |
Rival candidate for the crown of
Croatia. |
1414 - 1435 |
Joanna II |
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1435 - 1442 |
The Anjevian line ends.
The claim to Naples passes to René I the Good of Anjou, Duke of
Lorraine,
but by 1442 Alfonso V of Aragon &
Sicily conquers the kingdom. |
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Aragon Kingdom of Sicily
AD 1282 - 1442
The French rulers of Sicily were massacred by the populace at Vespers on 30
March 1282, and Pedro III of Aragon
was invited to take the throne while the
Anjevins continued to rule in Naples. |
1282 - 1285 |
Peter I of Aragon |
Pedro III of
Aragon. |
1285 - 1296 |
James II of Aragon |
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1296 - 1337 |
Frederick I (II) |
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1337 - 1342 |
Peter II |
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1342 - 1355 |
Louis |
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1355 - 1377 |
Frederick II (III) the Simple |
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1377 - 1401 |
Mary |
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1390 - 1409 |
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Martin the Younger |
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1409 - 1410 |
Martin the Older |
Martin I the Humane of
Aragon & Sicily (1395-1410). |
1412 - 1416 |
Ferdinand I |
King of
Aragon & Sicily. |
1416 - 1442 |
Alfonso I |
Alfonso V of
Aragon & Sicily. |
1442 |
The kingdom of
Naples & Sicily is re-united under
Alfonso V of Aragon. |
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Aragon Kingdom of Naples & Sicily
AD 1442 - 1501
The joint kingdom occasionally passed between and was temporarily divided for family members. |
1442 - 1458 |
Alfonso I |
Alfonso V of
Aragon, King of Naples &
Sicily. |
1458 - 1494 |
Ferdinand (Ferrante) I |
King of Naples. |
1458 - 1479 |
John II |
King of
Aragon & Sicily. |
1479 - 1516 |
Ferdinand II |
King of
Aragon & Sicily. |
1494 - 1495 |
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Alfonso II |
King of Naples. |
1479 - 1516 |
Ferdinand (Ferrantino) II |
King of Naples. |
1495 - 1496 |
The
French occupy Naples. |
1496 - 1501 |
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Frederick IV (III) |
King of Naples.
Deposed by Ferdinand II of
Aragon. d.1504. |
1501 |
After
uniting Spain, Ferdinand II of Aragon
deposes his cousin in Naples and unites Sicily and Naples to the
Spanish crown. |
1713 |
The
War of the Spanish Succession sees Spain
giving up Naples to Austria
(along with Sardinia) and Sicily to the Duchy of
Savoy. |
1713 - 1720 |
Victor Amadeus II |
Duke of
Savoy (1675-1730), King of
Sardinia (1720-1730). |
1717 - 1718 |
The Bourbon king of
Spain, Philip V, is unhappy with the arrangement and occupies
Sardinia and Sicily.
Britain and Austria defeat Spain. |
1720 |
Savoy
trades Sicily for Sardinia,
which is closer to its own territory. |
1733 - 1735 |
The
War of the Polish Succession gains Naples and Sicily for the Bourbons of
Spain. The Spanish Philip V reunites his possessions as the
kingdom of the Two Sicilies
and gives them to a younger son under an agreement that the kingdom will
not be reunited with Spain. |
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Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
AD 1735 - 1860 |
1734 - 1759 |
Charles |
King of
Spain (1759-1788). Abdicated the Sicilies to his son. |
1759 - 1805 |
Ferdinand IV (I) |
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1799 |
The Parthenopean
Republic is declared in Naples in January, but the Bourbons are restored in
June of the same year. |
1805 |
The Bourbons are deposed by Napoleon Bonaparte's
French First
Empire, and the emperor forms his own kingdom of
Naples. Protected by the
British Royal Navy, the Bourbons continue to rule from
Sicily but without any power over Naples. |
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Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples
AD 1806 - 1815
Based on all of southern Italy, including the former principality of
Benevento. |
1806 - 1808 |
Joseph Bonaparte |
Brother of Napoleon I
of France. |
1808 - 1815 |
Joachim Murat |
Brother-in-law of Napoleon I. |
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Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Naples was restored to the kingdom in 1815. |
1805 - 1825 |
Ferdinand IV (I) |
Ruled from Sicily 1806-1814. Restored to Naples (1815). |
1825 - 1830 |
Francis I |
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1830 - 1859 |
Ferdinand V (II) |
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1859 - 1860 |
Francis II |
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1860 |
Garibaldi defeats the
Bourbons in his unification of Italy. The following year,
Sicily & Naples are joined to Sardinia and Italy. |
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