biography
| name: |
Giovanna I of Anjou
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pronunciation:
[jiovahna]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1326–82)
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| biography:
| Queen of Naples, born in Naples, Campania, SW Italy, the daughter of Carlo, Duke of Calabria, and Margherita of Valois. She succeeded her grandfather Roberto in 1343, but in 1347 fled to Avignon to escape Louis of Hungary who blamed her for his brother's (Giovanna's first husband) death. Declared innocent by the pope, in exchange for Avignon, she returned to Naples in 1352. She gave up the Angiò's claims over Sicily in 1371. She then sided with antipope Clemente VII and was excommunicated by Urban VI in 1380. Carlo III of Durazzo invaded her kingdom, and had her jailed and then murdered. |
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