Chiaramonte

The Chiaramonte were one of the most important noble families of Sicily in the Middle Ages.

The family is from Clermont ( Picardy ) France and had come with the Normans in 1060 to Sicily to conquer the island. The important time the family began with the donation of the county of Modica by the Aragonese King Frederick III. the day of his coronation 1296th

After the death of King Frederick III. was Manfred III. Chiaramonte one of the four vicars, the representative of Frederick still underage daughter Maria ruled Sicily. However, he sought to even the king.

The history of the Chiaramonte family ended on June 1, 1392, when Martin I, who had married in 1389 Mary, Andrea Chiaramonte, the last scion of the family, in the Piazza Marina put to death in front of the Palazzo Chiaramonte in Palermo, because he is his claim had opposed to the title of king of Sicily.