Charles, Duke of Durazzo
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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Charles
| title = Duke of Durazzo
Count of Gravina
| image = Tomba di carlo di durazzo, m. 1348.JPG
| caption = Tomb of Charles, Duke of Durazzo in Naples
|succession = Duke of Durazzo
|reign = 1336–1348
|predecessor=John
|successor=Joanna
| spouse = Maria of Calabria
| issue = Louis of Durazzo
Joanna, Duchess of Durazzo
Agnes, Latin Empress
Clementia of Durazzo
Margaret, Queen of Naples
| titles =
| royal house = House of Anjou-Sicily
House of Anjou-Durazzo
| father = John, Duke of Durazzo
| mother = Agnes of Périgord
| birth_date = 1323
| death_date = 23 January 1348
| death_place = |
}}
Image:Armoiries Anjou Durazzo.svg
Charles of Durazzo ({{langx|it|Carlo di Durazzo}} 1323 – 23 January 1348) was a Neapolitan nobleman, the eldest son of John, Duke of Durazzo and Agnes of Périgord.{{sfn|Zacour|1960|p=32}}
Life
Charles succeeded his father as Duke of Durazzo and Count of Gravina in 1336.
On 21 April 1343, he married Maria of Calabria, Countess of Alba, in Naples.{{sfn|Zacour|1960|p=32}} She was the younger daughter of Charles, Duke of Calabria and sister of Joanna I of Naples, and had been intended as a bride for Louis I of Hungary or John II of France, but was abducted by Charles and his mother to make a marriage that would place Charles closer to the throne of Naples.
Keeping carefully aloof from the conspiracy that murdered Joanna's husband Andrew, Duke of Calabria, he led a faction opposing Joanna and Louis of Taranto. He contacted the Hungarian court, seeking their support. He hoped to turn the invasion of Louis of Hungary and the flight of Joanna to his own ends: but he was seized and beheaded by the Hungarians at Aversa.{{sfn|Bartlett|2020|p=248}}
Issue
Charles and Maria had:
- Louis (December 1343 – 14 January 1344)
- Joanna (1344–1387), Duchess of Durazzo;{{sfn|Zacour|1960|p=32}} married first in 1366 Louis of Navarre, Count of Beaumont (d. 1376), married second Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (d. 1387)
- Agnes (1345–1383,{{sfn|Topping|1975|p=149}} Naples),{{sfn|Zacour|1960|p=32}} married first on 6 June 1363 Cansignorio della Scala, Lord of Verona (d. 1375), married second James of Baux (d. 1383)
- Clementia (1346–1363, Naples){{sfn|Zacour|1960|p=32}}
- Margaret (28 July 1347 – 6 August 1412),{{sfn|Zacour|1960|p=32}} married in February 1368 to Charles III of Naples
References
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Sources
- {{cite book |title=Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe |first=Robert |last=Bartlett |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2020}}
- {{cite journal |title=Talleyrand: The Cardinal of Périgord (1301–1364) |first=Norman P. |last=Zacour |journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |series=New Series |volume= 50| issue = 7 |publisher=American Philosophical Society |year=1960|pages=1–83 |doi=10.2307/1005798 |jstor=1005798 }}
- {{Setton-A History of the Crusades | volume = 3 | chapter = The Morea, 1364–1460 | pages = 141–166 | last = Topping | first = Peter | chapter-url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/History/History-idx?type=article&did=History.CrusThree.i0017&id=History.CrusThree }}
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| years = 1336–1348 }}
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| years = 1336–1348 }}
{{s-aft| after = Louis }}
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Category:House of Anjou-Durazzo
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