Also known as:
Ladislaus of Naples, Ladislao I of Naples, Ladislaus of Durazzo;
Spanish: Ladislao de Nápoles;
French: Ladislas de Naples
LADISLAS, King of Naples. - Born in Naples on 11 February 1377, died there on 6 August 1414. He succeeded (1386) his father Charles III, who had been assassinated at Buda. Circumstances forced the regent Margaret to leave Naples, of which the partisans of Louis II of Anjou took possession. Declared of age (1393), he nevertheless remained for many years under his mother's ascendancy.
At the beginning of his reign he defeated the rebellious barons and populations and, in 1399, occupied Naples and the rest of the Kingdom. Having dissolved his marriage to Constance of Chiaramonte, he married Mary of Lusignan. Having landed at Zara, he proclaimed himself king of Hungary, but then renounced this with the intention of seizing the imperial crown; nevertheless his efforts failed. After the death of Boniface IX and the outbreak in Rome of an uprising, he entered the city as a mediator, and the new pope Innocent VII proclaimed him "defender, conservator and standard-bearer of the Church". He besieged Taranto twice and, having married Mary of Enghien, conquered that principality. On 21 April 1408 he militarily occupied Rome, with the aim of holding Gregory XII in his power. When John XXIII crowned Louis II of Anjou king of Naples, he rose up and suffered a defeat at Roccasecca (1410), but then managed to prevail. Having occupied Rome for the third time, he came to terms with the Pope and, while he was preparing to resume the struggle, fell ill at Narni; having returned to Naples, he died there.
Bibliography3 worksS. Ammirato, Vita di L., Florence 1883; A. Mancarella, Florence, the Church and the accession to the throne of Naples, in Arch. stor. per le
BIBL.: S. Ammirato, Vita di L., Florence 1883; A. Mancarella, Florence, the Church and the accession to the throne of Naples, in Arch. stor. per le prov. napolet., 3-7 (1919-21); A. Cutolo, Lineamenti di una storia di re L., Naples 1927. Other bibliography in J. Calmette, L'élaboration du monde moderne, 3rd ed., Paris 1949, p. 257.
Giuliani, Innocenzo. “Ladislao, re di napoli.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 798. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/ladislao-re-di-napoli.
MLA
Giuliani, Innocenzo. “Ladislao, re di napoli.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 798. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ladislao-re-di-napoli.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec7_ladislao_re_di_napoli,
author = {Giuliani, Innocenzo},
title = {Ladislao, re di napoli},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VII},
pages = {798},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/ladislao-re-di-napoli}
}
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