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See also:CHARLES H . (1250-1309), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Naples and See also:Sicily, son of Charles I., had been captured by Ruggiero di See also:Lauria in the See also:naval See also:battle at Naples in 1284, and when his See also:father died he was still a prisoner in the hands of See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter of See also:Aragon. In 1288 King See also:Edward I. of See also:England had mediated to make See also:peace, and Charles was liberated on the understanding that he was to retain Naples alone, Sicily being See also:left to the Aragonese; Charles was also to induce his See also:cousin Charles of See also:Valois to renounce for twenty thousand pounds of See also:silver the See also:kingdom of Aragon which had been given to him by See also:Pope See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin IV. to punish Peter for having invaded Sicily, but which the Valois had never effectively occupied. The Angevin king was thereupon set See also:free, leaving
three of his sons and sixty Provencal nobles as hostages, promising to pay 30,000 marks and to return a prisoner if the conditions were not fulfilled within three years. He went to See also:Rieti, where the new pope See also:Nicholas IV. immediately absolved him from all the conditions he had sworn to observe, crowned him king of the Two Sicilies (1289), and excommunicated See also:Alphonso, while Charles of Valois, in See also:alliance with See also:Castile, prepared to take See also:possession of Aragon. Alphonso III., the Aragonese king, being hard pressed, had to promise to withdraw the troops he had sent to help his See also:brother See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James in Sicily, to renounce all rights over the See also:island, and pay a See also:tribute to the See also:Holy See. But Alphonso died childless in 1291 before the treaty could be carried out, and James took possession of Aragon, leaving the See also:government of Sicily to the third brother See also:Frederick. The new pope See also:Boniface VIII., elected in 1294 at Naples under the auspices of King Charles, mediated between the latter and James, and a most dishonourable treaty was signed James was to marry- Charles's daughter Bianca and was promised the See also:investiture by the pope of See also:Sardinia and See also:Corsica, while he was to leave the Angevin a free See also:hand in Sicily and even to assist him if the Sicilians resisted. An See also:attempt' was made to bribe Frederick into consenting to this arrangement, but being backed up by his See also:people he refused, and was afterwards crowned king of Sicily. The See also:war was fought with See also:great fury on See also:land and See also:sea; but Charles, although aided by the pope, by Charles of Valois, and by James II. of Aragon, was unable to conquer the island, and his son the See also:prince of See also:Taranto was taken prisoner at the, battle of La Falconara in i299. Peace was at last made in 1302 at Caltabellotta, Charles II. giving up all rights to Sicily and agreeing to the See also:marriage of his daughter Leonora to King Frederick; the treaty was ratified by the pope in -1303. Charles spent his last years quietly in Naples, which See also:city he improved and embellished. He died in See also:August 1309, and was succeeded by his son See also:Robert.
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