The House of Grimaldi is the reigning house of the Principality of Monaco . The house was founded in 1160 by Grimaldo Canella in Genoa and became the ruling house of Monaco when Francesco Grimaldi captured Monaco in 1297.
89-587: The Grimaldi Forum Monaco , inaugurated in 2000 and named after the historical reigning family of Monaco, the House of Grimaldi , is an international event venue located in Monte Carlo . It hosts approximately 120 events and sees 250,000 visitors annually. The Grimaldi Forum Monaco was inaugurated on 20 July 2000 by Prince Rainier III and Prince Albert II . The venue, located within the Larvotto ward, hosts
178-640: A career in the Roman Catholic Church . The details of Charles's tuition are unknown, but he received a good education. He understood the principal Catholic doctrines and could identify errors in Latin texts. His passion for poetry, medical sciences, and law is well documented. Charles later said that his mother had a strong impact on her children's education; in reality, Blanche was fully engaged in state administration, and could likely spare little time for her youngest children. Charles lived at
267-651: A compromise between the Guelphs and Ghibellines, the Pope urged the Lombard towns to send envoys to him. He also urged Charles to renounce Tuscany. In the autumn of 1275 the Ghibellines offered to make peace with Charles, but he did not accept their terms. Early the next year the Ghibellines defeated his troops at Col de Tende , forcing them to withdraw to Provence. Pope Gregory X died on 10 January 1276. After
356-472: A joint venture with Pisan merchants. Pope Clement censured Charles for his methods of state administration, describing him as an arrogant and obstinate monarch. The consolidation of Charles's power in northern Italy also alarmed Clement. To appease the Pope, Charles resigned his senatorship in May 1267. His successors, Conrad Monaldeschi and Luca Savelli , demanded the re-payment of the money that Charles and
445-483: A lengthy campaign. He left Rome on 20 January 1266. He marched towards Naples , but changed his strategy after learning of a muster of Manfred's forces near Capua . He led his troops across the Apennines towards Benevento . Manfred also hurried to the town and reached it before Charles. Worried that further delays might endanger his subjects' loyalty, Manfred attacked Charles's army, then in disarray from
534-799: A loan to him. Conradin left Bavaria in September 1267. His supporters' revolt was spreading from Sicily to Calabria; the Saracens of Lucera also rose up. Pope Clement urged Charles to return to the Regno, but he continued his campaign in Tuscany until March 1268, when he met with the Pope. In April, the Pope made Charles imperial vicar of Tuscany "during the vacancy of the empire", a move of dubious legality. Charles marched to southern Italy and laid siege to Lucera, but he then had to hurry north to prevent Conradin's invasion of Abruzzo in late August. At
623-540: A member of the House of Grimaldi. Since the 18th century, the princes have been agnatic descendants of other families that have inherited through the female line and adopted the Grimaldi name. In 1715, Jacques Goyon de Matignon married Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco , the last Grimaldi agnatic heir. He and his male line descendants, adopting the Grimaldi name, ruled as princes of Monaco from 1731 to 1949. Since then,
712-551: A month in Sicily, waiting for his fleet. By the time he landed at Tunis on 25 August, dysentery and typhoid fever had decimated the French army. Louis died the day Charles arrived. The crusaders twice defeated Al-Mustansir's army, forcing him to sue for peace. According to the peace treaty, signed on 1 November, Al-Mustansir agreed to fully compensate Louis' son and successor, Philip III of France , and Charles for
801-710: A multitude of events such as seminars, conventions, exhibitions, performances, concerts, and festivals. It comprises two modular halls, three auditoriums ( Salle des Princes , Salle Prince Pierre , and Salle Camille Blanc ), 22 conference rooms, and three dining spaces and is home to the Monte-Carlo Ballets , the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra , the Opéra de Monte-Carlo , the Audiovisual Institute of Monaco , and
890-550: A new revolt in Provence. The burghers of Marseilles expelled Charles's officials, but Barral of Baux stopped the spread of the rebellion before Charles's return. Charles renounced Ventimiglia in favour of the Republic of Genoa to secure her neutrality. He defeated the rebels and forced Castellane into exile. The mediation of James I of Aragon brought about a settlement with Marseilles: its fortifications were dismantled and
979-832: A part of the Kingdom of France from 1486, and occasionally the Grimaldi relied upon French support to preserve their independence from the Republic of Genoa and the Duchy of Savoy . In the process they married into the French nobility in the 1600s, inherited French estates, and often lived in Paris, latterly at the Hôtel Matignon , until the French Revolution of 1789. Monaco and the neighbouring County of Nice were taken by
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#17327654406701068-779: A third of his revenues from Provence to her. In December 1244 Louis IX took a vow to lead a crusade. Ignoring their mother's strong opposition, his three brothers—Robert, Alphonse and Charles—also took the cross. Preparations for the crusade lasted for years, with the crusaders embarking at Aigues-Mortes on 25 August 1248. After spending several months in Cyprus they invaded Egypt on 5 June 1249. They captured Damietta and decided to attack Cairo in November. During their advance Louis's biographer Jean de Joinville noted Charles's personal courage which saved dozens of crusaders' lives. Robert of Artois died fighting against
1157-476: A treaty between Monaco and France stated that if the reigning Prince ever failed to leave dynastic offspring, then sovereignty over the Grimaldi realm would revert to France. The 2002 agreement modified this to expand the pool of potential heirs to dynastic collaterals of the reigning Prince (excluding adoptive heirs, hitherto allowed, e.g. Princess Charlotte and her descendants), guaranteeing Monegasque independence. Article I of Monaco's house law requires that
1246-469: A treaty with him in 1272 or 1273. John I Doukas of Thessaly and Stefan Uroš I , King of Serbia, joined the coalition in 1273. However, Pope Gregory forbade Charles to attack, because he hoped to unify the Orthodox and Catholic churches with the assistance of Emperor Michael VIII. The renowned theologian Thomas Aquinas died unexpectedly near Naples on 7 March 1274, before departing to attend
1335-499: Is Albert II of Monaco , Sovereign Prince of Monaco, who is the son and successor of Prince Rainier III and the Princess consort Grace of Monaco , formerly known as Grace Kelly. The Grimaldis descend from Grimaldo , a Genoese consul who lived during the time of the early Crusades . He may have been a son of Otto Canella , an earlier consul of the Republic of Genoa . His numerous descendants led maritime expeditions throughout
1424-700: The Battle of Tagliacozzo in 1268 strengthened his rule. In 1270, he took part in the Eighth Crusade organised by Louis IX and forced the Hafsid Caliph Muhammad I to pay a yearly tribute to him. Charles's victories secured his undisputed leadership among the Papacy's Italian partisans (known as Guelphs ), but his influence on papal elections and his strong military presence in Italy disturbed
1513-521: The Battle of Tagliacozzo , on 23 August 1268, it appeared that Conradin had won the day, but a sudden charge by Charles's reserve routed Conradin's army. The burghers of Potenza , Aversa and other towns in Basilicata and Apulia massacred their fellows who had agitated on Conradin's behalf, but the Sicilians and the Saracens of Lucera did not surrender. Charles marched to Rome where he
1602-628: The Holy Land , but Charles returned to France in October 1250. Charles's officers continued the survey of the counts' rights and revenues in Provence, provoking a new rebellion during his absence. On his return he applied both diplomacy and military force to deal with them. The Archbishop of Arles and the Bishop of Digne ceded their secular rights in the two towns to Charles in 1250. He received military assistance from his brother, Alphonse. Arles
1691-635: The Knights Hospitaller and the Venetians acknowledged Charles as the lawful ruler, the barons of the realm also paid homage to San Severino in January 1278, after he had threatened to confiscate their estates. The Mamluks of Egypt had already confined the kingdom to a coastal strip covering 2,600 km (1,000 square miles) and Charles had ordered San Severino to avoid conflicts with Egypt. Pope John died on 20 May 1277. Charles
1780-651: The Mediterranean , the Black Sea , and the North Sea . They quickly became one of the most powerful families of Genoa. The Grimaldis feared that the head of a rival Genoese family could break the fragile balance of power in a coup and become lord of Genoa, as had happened in other Italian cities. They entered into a Guelphic alliance with the Fieschi family. In 1271, the Guelphs were banned from Genoa, and
1869-487: The Second Council of Lyon . According to a popular legend, immortalised by Dante Alighieri , Charles had him poisoned, because he feared that Aquinas would make complaint against him. The historian Steven Runciman emphasises that "there is no evidence for supposing that the great doctor's death was not natural". Southern Italian churchmen at the council accused Charles of tyrannical acts. Their report reinforced
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#17327654406701958-715: The Théâtre Princesse Grace . It regularly hosts events including the Monte-Carlo Arts Festival, the Monte-Carlo Television Festival , EVER Monaco , Top Marques Monaco , as well as UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League events. This article about a building or structure in Monaco is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . House of Grimaldi Every Prince of Monaco has been
2047-576: The usufruct of Provence to her. The Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II (whom Pope Innocent IV had recently excommunicated for his alleged "crimes against the Church"), Count Raymond VII of Toulouse and other neighbouring rulers proposed themselves or their sons as husbands for the young Countess. Her mother put her under the protection of the Holy See. Louis IX and Margaret suggested that Beatrice should be given in marriage to Charles. To secure
2136-662: The Council of Lyon on 6 July that he had accepted the Catholic creed and papal primacy . About three weeks later, Pope Gregory again prohibited Charles from launching military actions against the Byzantine Empire. The Pope also tried to mediate a truce between Charles and Michael, but the latter chose to attack several smaller states in the Balkans, including Charles's vassals. The Byzantine fleet took control of
2225-498: The Egyptians at Al Mansurah . His three brothers survived, but they had to abandon the campaign. While withdrawing from Egypt, they fell into captivity on 6 April 1250. The Egyptians released Louis, Charles and Alphonse in exchange for 800,000 bezants and the surrender of Damietta on 6 May. During their voyage to Acre , Charles outraged Louis by gambling while the king was mourning Robert's death. Louis remained in
2314-669: The English barons had announced that they opposed a war against Manfred, Pope Alexander IV annulled the 1253 grant of Sicily to Edmund of Lancaster. Alexander's successor, Pope Urban IV , was determined to put an end to the Emperor's rule in Italy. He sent his notary, Albert of Parma, to Paris to negotiate with Louis IX for Charles to be placed on the Sicilian throne. Charles met with the Pope's envoy in early 1262. Taking advantage of Charles's absence, Boniface of Castellane stirred up
2403-608: The French and Provençal prelates to offer financial support for the crusade. Pope Urban died before the final agreement was concluded. Charles made arrangements for his campaign against Sicily during the interregnum; he concluded agreements to secure his army's route across Lombardy and had the leaders of the Provençal rebels executed. Foulquois was elected pope in February 1265; he soon confirmed Charles's senatorship and urged him to come to Rome. Charles agreed that he would hold
2492-457: The French crown if their rulers died without descendants. An earthquake destroyed the walls of Durazzo in the late 1260s or early 1270s. Charles's troops took possession of the town with the assistance of the leaders of the nearby Albanian communities. Charles concluded an agreement with the Albanian chiefs, promising to protect them and their ancient liberties in February 1272. He adopted
2581-433: The French noble House of Goyon-Matignon ruled as Princes of Monaco until 1949. However, one of the terms of James de Goyon de Matignon becoming Prince of Monaco jure uxoris was that he adopt the name and arms of Grimaldi so that the house would be preserved on the throne, and the right of succession was through his wife Louise-Hippolyte Grimaldi , who abdicated in her husband's favor. Similarly, when Charlotte Louvet
2670-714: The Genoese should elect Guelph officials. Ignoring the Pope's proposal, the Genoese made alliance with Alfonso X of Castile, William VII of Montferrat and the Ghibelline towns of Lombardy in October 1273. The conflict with Genoa prevented Charles from invading the Byzantine Empire , but he continued to forge alliances in the Balkan Peninsula. The Bulgarian ruler, Konstantin Tih , was the first to conclude
2759-864: The Ghibellines who had escaped to the town resisted until starvation forced them to surrender in August 1269. Charles sent Philip and Guy of Montfort to Sicily to force the rebels there into submission, but they could only capture Augusta . Charles made William l'Estandart the commander of the army in Sicily in August 1269. L'Estandart captured Agrigento , forcing Frederick of Castile and Frederick Lancia to seek refuge in Tunis. After L'Estandart's subsequent victory at Sciacca , only Capece resisted, but he also had to surrender in early 1270. Charles's troops forced Siena and Pisa—the last towns to resist him in Tuscany—to sue for peace in August 1270. He granted privileges to
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2848-520: The Grimaldi took refuge in their castles in Liguria and Provence . They signed a treaty with Charles of Anjou , King of Sicily and Count of Provence to retake control of Genoa. In 1276, they accepted a peace under the auspices of the Pope, but the civil war continued. Not all the Grimaldis chose to return to Genoa and instead settled in their fiefdoms , where they could raise armies. In 1299,
2937-649: The Grimaldis and their allies launched a few galleys to attack the port of Genoa before taking refuge on the Western Riviera . During the following years, the Grimaldis entered into different alliances that would allow them to return to power in Genoa. This time, it was the turn of their rivals, the Spinola family , to be exiled from the city. During this period, both the Guelphs and Ghibellines took and abandoned
3026-531: The Guelph leaders who had been exiled from Genoa. After they offered him the office of captain of the people , Charles promised military assistance to them. In November 1272 Charles commanded his officials to take prisoner all Genoese within his territories, except for the Guelphs, and to seize their property. His fleet occupied Ajaccio in Corsica. Pope Gregory condemned his aggressive policy, but proposed that
3115-432: The Guelph lords expelled from the Regno. Neither could Charles gain the commoners' loyalty, partly because he continued enforcing the subventio generalis despite the popes declaring it an illegal charge. He introduced a ban on the use of foreign currency in large transactions and made a profit of the compulsory exchange of foreign coinage for locally minted currency. He also traded in grain, spices and sugar, through
3204-423: The Kingdom of Sicily as the popes' vassal for an annual tribute of 8,000 ounces of gold. He also promised that he would never seek the imperial title. He embarked at Marseilles on 10 May and landed at Ostia ten days later. He was installed as senator on 21 June and four cardinals invested him with the Regno a week later. To finance further military actions he borrowed money from Italian bankers with
3293-552: The Kingdom of Sicily. After Conradin accepted their proposal, Manfred's former vicar in Sicily, Conrad Capece , returned to the island and stirred up a revolt. At Capece's request Muhammad I al-Mustansir , the Hafsid caliph of Tunis , allowed Manfred's former ally, Frederick of Castile , to invade Sicily from North Africa. Frederick's brother, Henry —who had been elected senator of Rome—also offered support to Conradin. Henry had been Charles's friend, but Charles had failed to repay
3382-414: The Lombard towns to attend. The Lombard towns accepted the invitation, but some towns—Milan, Bologna, Alessandria and Tortona—only confirmed their alliance with Charles, without acknowledging his rule. Louis IX never abandoned the idea of the liberation of Jerusalem, but he decided to begin his new crusade with a military campaign against Tunis. According to his confessor, Geoffrey of Beaulieu , Louis
3471-555: The Pope had a low opinion of Hugh. The war with Genoa and the Lombard towns increasingly occupied Charles's attention. He appointed his nephew Robert II of Artois as his deputy in Piedmont in October 1274, but Artois could not prevent Vercelli and Alessandria from joining the Ghibelline League. The following summer, a Genoese fleet plundered Trapani and the island of Gozo . Convinced that only Rudolf I could achieve
3560-737: The Pope had borrowed from the Romans. Victories by the Ghibellines , the imperial family's supporters, forced the Pope to ask Charles to send his troops to Tuscany . Charles's troops ousted the Ghibellines from Florence in April 1267. After being elected the Podestà (ruler) of Florence and Lucca for seven years, Charles hurried to Tuscany. Charles's expansionism along the Papal States ' borders alarmed Pope Clement and he decided to change
3649-452: The Pope's assistance, who had authorised him to pledge Church property. Five cardinals crowned him king of Sicily on 5 January 1266. The crusaders from France and Provence—reportedly 6,000 fully equipped mounted warriors, 600 mounted bowmen and 20,000 foot-soldiers—arrived in Rome ten days later. Charles decided to invade southern Italy without delay, because he was unable to finance
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3738-510: The Pope's attempt to reach a compromise with Rudolf of Habsburg , who had been elected king of Germany by the prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire. In June, the Pope acknowledged Rudolf as the lawful ruler of both Germany and Italy. Charles's sisters-in-law, Margaret and Eleanor, approached Rudolf, claiming that they had been unlawfully disinherited in favour of Charles's late wife. Michael VIII's personal envoy announced at
3827-421: The Regno, included the island of Sicily and southern Italy nearly as far as Rome. Pope Innocent IV claimed that the Regno had reverted to the Holy See. The Pope first offered it to Richard of Cornwall , but Richard did not want to fight against Frederick's son, Conrad IV of Germany . Then the Pope proposed to enfeoff Charles with the kingdom. Charles sought instructions from Louis IX, who forbade him to accept
3916-526: The Tuscan merchants and bankers which strengthened their position in the Regno. His influence was declining in Lombardy, because the Lombard towns no longer feared an invasion from Germany after Conradin's death. In May 1269 Charles sent Walter of La Roche to represent him in the province, but this failed to strengthen his authority. In October Charles's officials convoked an assembly at Cremona, and invited
4005-608: The cardinals to elect a new pope. Charles's brother, Alphonse of Poitiers, fell ill. Charles sent his best doctors to cure him, but Alphonse died. He claimed the major part of Alphonse's inheritance, including the Marquisate of Provence and the County of Poitiers , because he was Alphonse's nearest kin . After Philip III objected, he took the case to the Parlement of Paris. In 1284 the court ruled that appanages escheated to
4094-491: The castle of Monaco, which was ideally located to launch political and military operations against Genoa. Therefore, the tale of Francis Grimaldi and his faction – who took the castle of Monaco disguised as friars in 1297 – is largely anecdotal . In the early 14th century, the Aragonese raided the shores of Provence and Liguria, challenging Genoa and King Robert of Provence. In 1353, the combined fleet of eighty Venetian and Aragonese galleys gathered in Sardinia to meet
4183-651: The counts' rights and revenues, outraging both his subjects and his mother-in-law, who regarded this action as an attack against her rights. Being a younger child, destined for a church career, Charles had not received an appanage (a hereditary county or duchy) from his father. Louis VIII had willed that his fourth son, John, should receive Anjou and Maine upon reaching the age of majority, but John died in 1232. Louis IX knighted Charles at Melun in May 1246 and three months later bestowed Anjou and Maine on him. Charles rarely visited his two counties and appointed baillies (or regents) to administer them. While Charles
4272-523: The county to Charles. He accepted the offer and invaded Hainaut, forcing most local noblemen to swear fealty to him. After his return to France, Louis IX insisted that his ruling was to be respected. In November 1255 he ordered Charles to restore Hainaut to Margaret, but her sons were obliged to swear fealty to Charles. Louis also ruled that she was to pay 160,000 marks to Charles over the following 13 years. Charles returned to Provence, which had again become restive. His mother-in-law continued to support
4361-421: The county, but compensated him by instructing Margaret to pay him 160,000 marks . Charles forced the rebellious Provençal nobles and towns into submission and expanded his suzerainty over a dozen towns and lordships in the Kingdom of Arles . In 1263, after years of negotiations, he accepted the offer of the Holy See to seize the Kingdom of Sicily from the Hohenstaufens . This kingdom included, in addition to
4450-840: The court of a brother, Robert I, Count of Artois , from 1237. About four years later he was put into the care of his youngest brother, Alphonse, Count of Poitiers . His participation in his brothers' military campaign against Hugh X of Lusignan , Count of La Marche, in 1242 showed that he was no longer destined for a Church career. Raymond Berengar V of Provence died in August 1245, bequeathing Provence and Forcalquier to his youngest daughter, Beatrice , allegedly because he had given generous dowries to her three sisters. The dowries were actually not fully discharged, causing two of her sisters, Margaret (Louis IX's wife) and Eleanor (the wife of Henry III of England ), to believe that they had been unlawfully disinherited. Their mother, Beatrice of Savoy , claimed that Raymond Berengar had willed
4539-400: The crossing of the hills, on 26 February 1266. In the ensuing battle , Manfred's army was defeated and he was killed. Resistance throughout the Regno collapsed and towns surrendered even before Charles's troops reached them. The Saracens of Lucera —a Muslim colony established during Frederick II's reign —paid homage to him. His commander, Philip of Montfort , took control of
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#17327654406704628-426: The crusade were also sunk or forced to land in Sicily. Charles seized the damaged ships and their cargo, ignoring all protests from the Ghibelline authorities of Genoa. Before leaving Sicily he granted temporary tax concessions to the Sicilians, because he realised that the conquest of the island had caused much destruction. Charles accompanied Philip III as far as Viterbo in March 1271. Here they failed to convince
4717-543: The direction of Charles's ambitions. The Pope summoned him to Viterbo , forcing him to promise that he would abandon all claims to Tuscany in three years. He persuaded Charles to conclude agreements with William of Villehardouin , Prince of Achaea, and the titular Latin Emperor Baldwin II in late May. According to the first treaty, Villehardouin acknowledged Charles's suzerainty and made Charles's younger son, Philip , his heir, also stipulating that Charles would inherit Achaea if Philip died childless. Baldwin confirmed
4806-617: The discords in Genoa to take possession of Monaco, which they then ruled as a condominium . This is the origin of today's principality. As was customary in Genoa, the Grimaldis organised their family ties within a corporation called albergo . In the political reform of 1528, the Grimaldi became one of the 28 alberghi of the Republic of Genoa, which included the Doria and Pallavicini families, and to which other families were formally invited to join. The House of Grimaldi provided several doges , cardinals , cabinet ministers, and military officers of historical note. Provence became
4895-517: The expenses of the military campaign and to release his Christian prisoners. He also promised to pay a yearly tribute to Charles and to expel Charles's opponents from Tunis. The gold from Tunis, along with silver from the newly opened mine at Longobucco , enabled Charles to mint new coins, known as carlini , in the Regno. Charles and Philip departed Tunis on 10 November. A storm dispersed their fleet at Trapani and most of Charles's galleys were lost or damaged. Genoese ships returning from
4984-564: The first agreement and renounced his claims to suzerainty over his vassals in favour of Charles. Charles pledged that he would assist Baldwin in recapturing Constantinople from the Byzantine emperor, Michael VIII Palaiologos , in exchange for one third of the conquered lands. Charles returned to Tuscany and laid siege to the fortress of Poggibonsi, but it did not fall until the end of November. Manfred's staunchest supporters had meanwhile fled to Bavaria to attempt to persuade Conrad IV's 15-year-old son Conradin to assert his hereditary right to
5073-406: The fleet of sixty galleys under the command of Anthony Grimaldi. Only nineteen Genoese vessels survived the battle. Fearing an invasion, Genoa requested the protection of the Lord of Milan . Several of the oldest feudal branches of the House of Grimaldi appeared during these conflicts, such as the branches of Antibes , Beuil , Nice , Puget , and Sicily . In 1395, the Grimaldis took advantage of
5162-469: The founder of the second House of Anjou . He was Count of Provence (1246–1285) and Forcalquier (1246–1248, 1256–1285) in the Holy Roman Empire , Count of Anjou and Maine (1246–1285) in France; he was also King of Sicily (1266–1285) and Prince of Achaea (1278–1285). In 1272, he was proclaimed King of Albania , and in 1277 he purchased a claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem . The youngest son of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile , Charles
5251-431: The hostility he experienced during Gregory's pontificate, Charles was determined to secure the election of a pope willing to support his plans. Gregory's successor, Pope Innocent V , had always been Charles's partisan and he rapidly confirmed Charles as senator of Rome and imperial vicar of Tuscany. He also mediated a peace treaty between Charles and Genoa, which was signed in Rome on 22 June 1276. Charles restored
5340-426: The island of Sicily , southern Italy to well north of Naples and was known as the Regno. Pope Urban IV declared a crusade against the incumbent Manfred of Sicily and assisted Charles in raising funds for the military campaign. Charles was crowned king in Rome on 5 January 1266. He annihilated Manfred's army and occupied the Regno almost without resistance. His victory over Manfred's young nephew, Conradin , at
5429-447: The island of Sicily . Manfred's widow, Helena of Epirus , and their children were captured. Charles laid claim to her dowry—the island of Corfu and the region of Durazzo (now Durrës in Albania)—by right of conquest. His troops seized Corfu before the end of the year. Charles was lenient with Manfred's supporters, but they did not believe that this conciliatory policy could last. They knew that he had promised to return estates to
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#17327654406705518-405: The island of Sicily. He was able to defend the mainland territories (or the Kingdom of Naples ) with the support of France and the Holy See. Charles died while making preparations for an invasion of Sicily. Charles was the youngest child of King Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile . The date of his birth has not survived, but he was probably born posthumously in early 1227. Charles
5607-449: The maritime routes between Albania and southern Italy in the late 1270s. Gregory only allowed Charles to send reinforcements to Achaea. The organisation of a new crusade to the Holy Land remained the Pope's principal object. He persuaded Charles to start negotiations with Maria of Antioch about purchasing her claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem . The High Court of Jerusalem had already rejected her in favour of Hugh III of Cyprus , but
5696-604: The next four years. He received territories in the Lower Alps from the Dauphin of Vienne . Raymond I of Baux , Count of Orange, ceded the title of regent of the Kingdom of Arles to him. The burghers of Cuneo —a town strategically located on the routes from Provence to Lombardy—sought Charles's protection against Asti in July 1259. Alba , Cherasco , Savigliano and other nearby towns acknowledged his rule. The rulers of Mondovì , Ceva , Biandrate and Saluzzo did homage to him. Emperor Frederick II's illegitimate son, Manfred , had been crowned king of Sicily in 1258. After
5785-724: The offer, because he regarded Conrad as the lawful ruler. After Charles informed the Holy See on 30 October 1253 that he would not accept the Regno, the Pope offered it to Edmund of Lancaster . Queen Blanche, who had administered France during Louis' crusade, died on 1 December 1252. Louis made Alphonse and Charles co-regents, so that he could remain in the Holy Land. Margaret II, Countess of Flanders and Hainaut had come into conflict with her son by her first marriage, John of Avesnes . After her sons by her second marriage were captured in July 1253, she needed foreign assistance to secure their release. Ignoring Louis IX's 1246 ruling that Hainaut should pass to John, she promised
5874-626: The office, at which a group of cardinals requested that the Pope revoke the agreement with him, but the Pope, being otherwise defenceless against Manfred, could not break with Charles. In the spring of 1264 Cardinals Simon of Brie and Guy Foulquois were sent to France to reach a compromise and start raising support for the crusade. Charles sent troops to Rome to protect the Pope against Manfred's allies. At Foulquois' request, Charles's sister-in-law Margaret (who had not abandoned her claims to her dowry) pledged that she would not take actions against Charles during his absence. Foulquois also persuaded
5963-438: The popes. They tried to channel his ambitions towards other territories and assisted him in acquiring claims to Achaea, Jerusalem and Arles through treaties. In 1281, Pope Martin IV authorised Charles to launch a crusade against the Byzantine Empire . Charles's ships were gathering at Messina , ready to begin the campaign when the Sicilian Vespers rebellion broke out on 30 March 1282 which put an end to Charles's rule on
6052-404: The princes have been male line descendants of the Polignac family . Rainier III , son of Pierre de Polignac , inherited the title through Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois in 1949 and adopted the Grimaldi name. During much of the Ancien Régime , the family resided in the French court, where from 1642 to 1715, they used the title of Duke of Valentinois . The current head of the house
6141-530: The privileges of the Genoese merchants and renounced his conquests, and the Genoese acknowledged his rule in Ventimiglia. Pope Innocent died on 30 June 1276. After the cardinals assembled in the Lateran Palace , Charles's troops surrounded it, enabling only his allies to communicate with other cardinals and with outsiders. On 11 July the cardinals elected Charles's old friend, Ottobuono de' Fieschi , pope, but he died on 18 August. The cardinals met again, this time at Viterbo. Although Charles
6230-413: The rebellious Boniface of Castellane and his allies, but Louis IX persuaded her to return Forcalquier to Charles and relinquish her claims for a lump sum payment from Charles and a pension from Louis in November 1256. A coup by Charles's supporters in Marseilles resulted in the surrender of all political powers there to his officials. Charles continued to expand his power along the borders of Provence in
6319-423: The reigning Prince or Princess bear the surname of Grimaldi. The coat of arms of the House of Grimaldi is simply described as fusily argent and gules , i.e., a red and white diamond pattern, with no further modifiers. Charles of Anjou Charles I (early 1226/1227 – 7 January 1285), commonly called Charles of Anjou or Charles d'Anjou , was a member of the royal Capetian dynasty and
6408-572: The revolutionary army in 1792, and were French-controlled until 1815. Nice passed back to the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1815; then it was ceded to France by the Treaty of Turin (1860) . Monaco was re-established by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, with a brief Italian occupation in 1940–43. By convention, membership of sovereign European houses is through the male line . By that definition, from 1731,
6497-466: The support of France against Frederick II, Pope Innocent IV accepted their proposal. Charles hurried to Aix-en-Provence at the head of an army to prevent other suitors from invading Provence, and married Beatrice on 31 January 1246. Provence was a part of the Kingdom of Arles and so of the Holy Roman Empire , but Charles never swore fealty to the emperor. He ordered a survey of
6586-456: The time Raymond Poincaré had threatened that if the throne was inherited by a German, France would annex the principality. In 2018 a Grimaldi cousin, Count Louis de Causans, who hailed from a cadet branch of the family, sued France for €351m compensation, claiming that it had deceived his family during the succession crisis of 1911, and that his great-grandfather, Count Aynard de Chabrillan, should have inherited Monaco's throne. Until 2002,
6675-465: The title of King of Albania and appointed Gazzo Chinardo as his vicar-general. He also sent his fleet to Achaea to defend the principality against Byzantine attacks. Charles hurried to Rome to attend the enthronement of Pope Gregory X on 27 March 1272. The new pope was determined to put an end to the conflicts between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines. While in Rome Charles met with
6764-492: The townspeople surrendered their arms, but the town retained its autonomy. Louis IX decided to support Charles's military campaign in Italy in May 1263. Pope Urban IV promised to proclaim a crusade against Manfred, while Charles pledged that he would not accept any offices in the Italian towns. Manfred staged a coup in Rome, but the Guelphs elected Charles senator (or the head of the civil government of Rome). He accepted
6853-450: The treaty concluded by Charles and Maria of Antioch on 18 March which transferred her claims to Jerusalem to Charles for 1,000 bezants and a pension of 4,000 livres tournois . Charles appointed Roger of San Severino to administer the Kingdom of Jerusalem as his bailiff . San Severino landed at Acre on 7 June 1277. Hugh III's bailiff, Balian of Arsuf , surrendered the town without resistance. Although initially only
6942-469: Was legitimised in 1911 and made successor to Monaco, her husband, Count Pierre de Polignac , adopted, as a condition of the marriage, the name and arms of Grimaldi, but from this moment all his direct descendants Grimaldi would also have the title of Counts of Polignac . In this way the "Grimaldi" name and arms were continued. Under the succession rules prior to 1911, Monaco's throne would have passed to Prince Wilhelm of Urach. However, French president at
7031-457: Was Conradin's only partisan to be released, but only after his wife threatened to execute the Guelph lords she held captive in her castle. The Ghibelline noblemen of the Regno fled to the court of Peter III of Aragon , who had married Manfred's daughter, Constance . Charles's wife, Beatrice of Provence, had died in July 1267. The widowed Charles married Margaret of Nevers in November 1268. She
7120-430: Was Louis' only surviving son to be " born in the purple " (after his father's coronation), a fact he often emphasised in his youth, as the contemporaneous chronicler Matthew Paris noted in his Chronica Majora . He was the first Capetian to be named for Charlemagne . Louis VIII died in November 1226 and his eldest son, Louis IX , succeeded him. The late King willed that his youngest sons were to be prepared for
7209-481: Was absent from Provence, Marseille , Arles and Avignon —three wealthy cities, directly subject to the emperor—formed a league and appointed a Provençal nobleman, Barral of Baux , as the commander of their combined armies. Charles's mother-in-law put the disobedient Provençals under her protection. Charles could not deal with the rebels as he was about to join his brother's crusade . To pacify his mother-in-law he acknowledged her right to rule Forcalquier and granted
7298-603: Was again elected senator in September. He appointed new officials to administer justice and collect state revenues. New coins bearing his name were struck. During the following decade, Rome was ruled by Charles's vicars, each appointed for one year. Conradin was captured at Torre Astura . Most of his retainers were summarily executed, but Conradin and his friend, Frederick I, Margrave of Baden , were brought to trial for robbery and treason in Naples. They were sentenced to death and beheaded on 29 October. Conrad of Antioch
7387-402: Was co-heiress to her father, Odo , the eldest son of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy . Pope Clement died on 29 November 1268. The papal vacancy lasted for three years, which strengthened Charles's authority in Italy, but it also deprived him of the ecclesiastic support that only a pope could provide. Charles returned to Lucera to personally direct its siege in April 1269. The Saracens and
7476-436: Was convinced that al-Mustansir of Tunis was ready to convert to Christianity. The 13th-century historian Saba Malaspina stated that Charles persuaded Louis to attack Tunis, because he wanted to secure the payment of the tribute that the rulers of Tunis had paid to the former Sicilian monarchs. The French crusaders embarked at Aigues-Mortes on 2 July 1270; Charles departed from Naples six days later. He spent more than
7565-838: Was destined for a Church career until the early 1240s. He acquired Provence and Forcalquier through his marriage to their heiress, Beatrice . His attempts to restore central authority brought him into conflict with his mother-in-law, Beatrice of Savoy , and the nobility. Charles received Anjou and Maine from his brother, Louis IX of France , in appanage . He accompanied Louis during the Seventh Crusade to Egypt . Shortly after he returned to Provence in 1250, Charles forced three wealthy autonomous cities— Marseille , Arles and Avignon —to acknowledge his suzerainty . Charles supported Margaret II, Countess of Flanders and Hainaut , against her eldest son, John , in exchange for Hainaut in 1253. Two years later, Louis IX persuaded him to renounce
7654-411: Was ill and could not prevent the election of Giovanni Gaetano Orsini as Pope Nicholas III on 25 November. The Pope soon declared that no foreign prince could rule in Rome and reminded Charles that he had been elected senator for ten years. Charles swore fealty to the new pope on 24 May 1278 after lengthy negotiations. He had to pledge that he would renounce both the senatorship of Rome and
7743-431: Was introduced in the whole county. Income from the salt trade made up about 50% of state revenues by the late 1250s. Charles abolished local tolls and promoted shipbuilding and grain trade . He ordered the issue of new coins, called provencaux , to enable the use of the local currency in smaller transactions. Emperor Frederick II, who was also the ruler of Sicily, died in 1250. The Kingdom of Sicily , also known as
7832-501: Was staying in the nearby Vetralla, he could not directly influence the election, because his vehement opponent, Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini , dominated the papal conclave . Pope John XXI , who was elected on 20 September, excommunicated Charles's opponents in Piedmont and prohibited Rudolf from coming to Lombardy, but did not forbid the Lombardian Guelph leaders swearing fealty to Rudolf. The Pope also confirmed
7921-551: Was the first town to surrender to them in April 1251. In May they forced Avignon to acknowledge their joint rule. A month later Barral of Baux also capitulated. Marseilles was the only town to resist for several months, but it also sought peace in July 1252. Its burghers acknowledged Charles as their lord, but retained their self-governing bodies. Charles's officials continued to ascertain his rights, visiting each town and holding public enquiries to obtain information about all claims. The count's salt monopoly (or gabelle )
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