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Europe in the Middle Ages

by Ierne L. Plunket

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Mediaeval Genealogies

6. The First House of Anjou in Naples

            LOUIS VIII of France
         1223–1226
         |
         CHARLES
         Count of Anjou & Provence
         & King of Sicily and Naples (d.1285)
         |
         CHARLES II
         d. 1309
         |
         +——+—+——+——+
         | | | |
      CHARLES MARTEL ROBERT JOHN MARGARET = CHARLES
         | King of of Durazzo of Valois
         | Naples | [See Table IV for
         | | | House of
         | | | Valois & also
        CAROBERT CHARLES | The Second House of
        of Hungary of Calabria | Anjou in Naples]
         | | |
     +——+—+ +——+——+ +——+
     | | | | | |
   LOUIS ANDREW = JOANNA I MARIA = CHARLES LOUIS
   the d.1382 | d.1348 |
   Great King | |
   of Hungary | |
         | | |
         +——+ | |
         | | | |
SIGISMUND = MARIA HEDWIG = JAGELLO MARGARET = CHARLES III
of Luxembourg of | of Durazzo
         Lithuania |
         (King Ladislas +—+——+
         V of Poland) | |
         LADISLAS JOANNA II
         d.1414 d.1433

The Second House of Anjou In Naples

CHARLES = MARGARET
          Count of | of Sicily
          Valois |
          |
          PHILIP VI
          1328–1350
          |
          JOHN “the Good”
          1350–1364
          |
          +——+
          | |
          CHARLES V LOUIS Duke of Anjou
          1364–1380 d. 1385
          |
          LOUIS II
          d. 1417
          |
       +——+——++——+
       | | | |
    LOUIS III RÉNÉ LE BON* CHARLES MARY = CHARLES VII
    d. 1434 d.1480 Duke of | of France
          | Maine |
          | | |
          YOLANDE = FREDERICK CHARLES LOUIS XI
          | of d.1481 |
          | Vaudemont |
          | |
          Réné I Duke of Lorraine CHARLES VIII

Notes

* Réné le Bon disinherited his grandson Réné Duke of Lorraine and left his claims to Naples to his nephew Charles—with remainder to the French Crown. In this way Charles VIII was enabled to claim the Neapolitan throne.

Footnotes

1 See p. 41.

2 See p. 43.

3 See p. 62.

4 See p. 48.

5 See Genealogy, p. 377.

6 See p. 85.

7 See p. 16.

8 See p. 95.

9 See p. 103.

10 See p. 120.

11 See p. 115.

12 See p. 77.

13 See p. 45.

14 See p. 143.

15 See p. 131.

16 See p. 122.

17 See p. 152.

18 See p. 154.

19 See p. 169.

20 See p. 115.

21 See p. 49.

22 See p. 164.

23 See p. 199.

24 See p. 194.

25 See p. 195.

26 See Genealogical Table, p. 378.

27 See p. 55.

28 The province of Dauphiné, formerly an imperial fief, was acquired by the French crown in 1349, and became a regular ‘appanage’ of the King’s eldest son, conferring on him the title of ‘Dauphin’, equivalent to the English title ‘Prince of Wales’.

29 See p. 223.

30 See p. 53.

31 See p. 62.

32 See p. 215.

33 See p. 195.

34 See p. 229.

35 See p. 229.

36 See p. 247.

37 See p. 342.

38 See p. 229.

39 See p. 252.

40 See p. 151.

41 See p. 179.

42 See Genealogical Table, p. 379.

43 See p. 184.

44 See p. 230.

45 See p. 294.

46 See p. 232.

47 See p. 294, and genealogy, p. 380.

48 See p. 184.

49 See p. 229.

50 See p. 274.

51 See p. 207.

52 See Genealogical Table, p. 382.

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