Ferdinand II of Naples

Ferdinand II " Ferran Tino " ( born July 26, 1469 Naples, † October 7, 1496 ibid ) was King of Naples and heritage of Brienne.

Life

Ferdinand II was the elder son Alfonso II and grandson of King Ferdinand I of Naples. Alfonso, who felt insecure because of the approaching invasion of Charles VIII of France and the general discontent, thanked in 1495 in favor of his son's. The treason of a party in Naples made ​​it impossible to defend the city against the attack of Charles VIII.

Charles VIII sat Although in 1495 with the help of the Neapolitan nobility quickly into the possession of the kingdom and was crowned on May 12, in Naples, while Ferdinand fled to Ischia. But when Charles VIII left Naples with the largest part of the army, Ferdinand returned, after the formation of an Italian association against him, returned and defeated the French garrisons. After the terrible behavior of the French during the occupation in the city of the Neapolitans welcomed him with enthusiasm.

Although he was first defeated at the Battle of Seminara of d' Aubigny. He forced, however - especially with the help of the Spanish general Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba y Aguilar - the Viceroy Gilbert of Bourbon- Montpensier, Duke of Montpensier, in 1496 to the capitulation of Atella, which brought the kingdom again into the power of Ferdinand. But he shortly afterwards died on 7 September 1496th He is regarded as a very talented, energetic, but this hard prince.

He married in 1496, shortly before his death, Johanna of Naples; she was the daughter of his grandfather Ferdinand and his second wife, Joan of Aragon. ( Joan of Naples ( 1478-1518 ), only daughter of the second marriage, was younger than Ferdinand. ) Therefore Ferdinand II had no heirs and was succeeded by his uncle, Frederick IV of Aragon, who became King Frederick I crowned Naples superseded. He was soon dethroned and imprisoned, but his main heir was his sister Isabella of Naples, Duchess widow of Milan.