Tag: Aragon
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140 – King Ferdinand’s woes (1458 – 1492)
After the death of Alphonse the Magnanimous, his illigitimate son, Ferdinand, has quite a time managing to hold on to the kingdom of Naples what with revolting Barons, meddling popes and even an Ottoman invasion! Will the poor man ever get any peace and quiet?
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119 – Joanna II of Naples and some schism fixing
We see the rather naughty and turbulent reign of Joanna II of Naples. Did she really deserve the nickname “the insatiable” or even “the mad”? Or was it just bad press?
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117 – Eleonora of Arborea and the fall of Sardinia (1326 – 1410)
The life and times of the great “Giudchessa” and the fall of Sardinia to the Spanish.
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104 – The last Sardinian Judicate (1323-1326)
After a quick recap of what was going on around Italy in 1323, we get to the Aragonese invasion of Sardinia that put a definitive end to the presence of the Republic of Pisa on the island leaving the Judicate of Arborea as the last of the old four Judicates surrounded by the new “Kingdom…
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084 – The war of the Sicilian Vespers
1282 – 1285 The start of the War of the Sicilian Vespers and a strange duel to attempt to put an end to it.