Joanna I of Naples
Queen of Naples (1326-1382) · Italy · Politicians · Died at 56
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Something wrong?A medieval queen who held Naples for nearly forty years, outlasted three husbands after the first was murdered in her palace, weathered two Hungarian invasions, and died strangled in a castle on the orders of her own cousin-by-marriage - who wanted the throne she'd tried to secure for him.
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Joanna inherited Naples at seventeen in 1343 after her grandfather Robert named her sole heir over the protests of Hungarian relatives who'd married her to Prince Andrew. Two years later Andrew was found strangled, his death launching decades of war with his brother Louis I of Hungary and suspicion that never left her. She married three more times - Louis of Taranto, the titular King of Majorca, a Duke of Brunswick - but produced no surviving children. When the Western Schism split the papacy, she backed Avignon; Rome declared her a heretic and usurper in 1380. Her sister's son Charles of Durazzo, whom she'd tried to make her heir, turned on her instead. He took her prisoner and had her killed in July 1382.
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