Louis II of Naples

Louis II of Anjou (French: Louis II d' Anjou; * October 5, 1377 in Toulon, † May 25, 1417 in Angers ) was a Duke of Anjou, Count of Maine, Guise, Blois and Provence, and titular King of Naples and Jerusalem. He came from the younger House of Anjou, a side branch of the French royal house of Valois.

Life

He was the son of Duke Louis I of Anjou and Marie of Châtillon- Blois. After his father's death in 1384 Louis inherited not only the family possessions in France, but also the claim to the throne of Naples, the family had obtained by adoption of Queen Joanna I. Ludwig was equipped by his father, therefore, already in 1383 with the title of Duke of Calabria, the official dignity of the Crown Prince of the Two Sicilies.

Ludwig was the first year under the tutelage of his mother until he in 1389 in Saint Denis by his cousin, King Charles VI. was beaten by France, knighted. In the same year Louis was crowned king of Sicily ( the official title of the kings of Naples) and Jerusalem from the anti-pope Clement VII in Avignon on November 1. Because claim to the Neapolitan throne Ludwig had, however, against the competitors Ladislaus fight actually prevailed in southern Italy. He succeeded in briefly taking Naples, but lost it again in 1399 Ladislaus.

1400 married Louis the Aragonese Princess Iolanthe, was brought up under the care of Angers in the later Dauphin and King Charles VII. In the power struggles around the regency for the government unable to become King Charles VI. took Ludwig party for his cousin, Duke Louis of Orléans, and after his assassination in 1407, the Armagnacs against the claims to power of another cousin, Duke John of Burgundy. In 1409 he founded the University of Aix. After 1410 King Martin I of Aragon died, Louis was one of the candidates for the succession in Aragon, however, prevailed in the compromise of Caspe Fernando de Trastámara.

1412 Ludwig tried again an attack against Ladislaus of Naples and moved to Italy with more than 12,000 men. He had previously sold in 1409 for 100,000 ducats Dalmatia to Venice in the year. Supported by Antipope John XXIII. , He came across the Liris before, struck at Rocca Secca Ladislaus, but did not use his victory and returned, quarreled with his allies, returned to France. There he attended the Privy Council for exclusion of the Dauphin John, which was close to the Burgundian party. In April 1417 the Dauphin died thus, aufrückte to succeed in imitation of the favorite of the Angevin, Charles VII. Louis himself died shortly afterwards and was buried in the cathedral of Angers.

Ludwig and his wife had the following children:

  • Ludwig III. († 1434 ), Duke of Anjou, Count of Provence, Guise and Blois
  • René I, called " the good king " († 1480), Duke of Anjou and Lorraine, King of Naples
  • Charles IV († 1472 ), Count of Maine
  • Maria ( † 1463 ), married since 1422 with King Charles VII of France
  • Yolande († 1440), married since 1431 with Duke Francis I of Brittany
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