(born March 1226—died Jan. 7, 1285, Foggia, Kingdom of Naples [Italy]) King of Naples and Sicily (1266–85), the first of the Angevin dynasty. The younger brother of Louis IX of France, Charles allied with the papacy and conquered Naples and...

(born 1288, Naples, Kingdom of Naples—died July 16, 1342, Visegárd, Hung.) King of Hungary (1301, 1308–42). He claimed the Hungarian throne with papal approval and was crowned in 1301, but his claim was disputed, and he was not...

Charles I (b. 21 March 1226 – d. 7 January 1285), commonly called Charles of Anjou, was the King of Sicily by conquest from 1266 (though he had received it as a papal grant in 1262), though he was expelled from the island in the aftermath of the...