Charles II of Naples
King of Naples from 1284 to 1309
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Updated 2026-06-09
A king who inherited half a kingdom and spent years as a hostage. Charles II took the throne of Naples in 1285 from a prison cell—captured at sea by the enemy who'd already stripped Sicily from his father's empire.
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Charles was the son of Charles I of Anjou, one of 13th-century Europe's most powerful monarchs, and received the Principality of Salerno in 1272. After the 1282 Sicilian Vespers uprising split his father's realm, the island of Sicily passed to Aragon while Charles became regent of the mainland Regno in 1283. He abolished unpopular taxes and confirmed noble liberties, but could not stop Aragonese forces from seizing Calabria and the Gulf islands. In 1284 the Sicilian admiral Roger of Lauria captured him in a naval battle off Naples. When his father died on 7 January 1285, Charles was still in p…
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