Philip of Anjou (titular king)

Philipp von Anjou (French: Philippe d'Anjou , Italian: Filipo d'Angiò ; * 1256 ; † January 1, 1277 in Bari ) was a younger son of Charles of Anjou , King of Sicily , and Countess Beatrix of Provence . He thus belonged to the Anjou , a branch of the Capetians .

After Charles of Anjou had conquered the Kingdom of Sicily in 1266 , he unsuccessfully pursued the installation of Philip as King of Sardinia with Pope Clement IV . In 1269, Philip was elected King of Sardinia by the Guelfish-minded Sassari commune . The Guelphs of Sardinia hoped to gain the support of the Anjou for the fight against the Ghibelline Pisa , which was the dominant power on the island. However, this choice had no immediate impact, especially since the Angevin interests collided with those of Aragon .

On May 28, 1271 Philip married the heiress of the Principality of Achaia , Isabelle de Villehardouin in the Cathedral of Trani . The marriage fulfilled a condition of the Viterbo Treaty of 1267, according to which the House of Anjou should inherit the Villehardouin. Philip was to succeed the bride's father Wilhelm II as Prince of Achaia when he died; but should he die before the prince without his own heir, Achaia would fall directly to Charles of Anjou, as it finally happened.

On June 12, 1272 Philip and his older brother Karl von Salerno were knighted in front of the monastery of San Pieto ad Aram near Naples . On May 10, 1274 he was enfeoffed with the Kingdom of Thessaloniki by his brother-in-law Philipp von Courtenay , titular emperor of Constantinople , a title that was also empty.

Philip died after an illness in Bari in 1277 and was buried in Trani Cathedral.

literature

• David Abulafida: A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca (2002), p. 40

Web links

• Philipp von Anjou at genealogie-mittelalter.de
• Kings of Sicily at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.ac (English)