biography
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| lived:
| (1226–85)
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| biography:
| King of Naples and Sicily, the son of Louis VIII of France, and Count of Anjou and Maine, Provence and Ventimiglia. Offered the crown of Sicily against Manfredi by the Italian Guelphs and Pope Urban IV, he was crowned in Rome (1265), defeated Manfredi at Benevento (1266) and Corradino at Tagliacozzo (1268). His expensive foreign policy, including the crusade against Tunis and conquest of Achaea, led to the Sicilian Vespers and a war against the Aragonese. Defeated at Naples in 1284, he died soon after. |
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