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Claim. Roger II. 1130–1154. 22 December 1095. Mileto. son of Roger I of Sicily and Adelaide del Vasto. Elvira of Castile. 1117. 6 children.
Malta. Map of the Kingdom of Sicily in 1200. The Kingdom of Sicily (Latin: Regnum Siciliae; Sicilian: Regnu di Sicilia; Italian: Regno di Sicilia[2][3][4][5]) was a state that existed in Sicily and the south of the Italian Peninsula plus, for a time, in Northern Africa from its founding by Roger II of Sicily in 1130 until 1816.
Name Reign Claim to the throne Title Charles I (Carlo I) 30 March 1282 7 January 1285 • Conquered the Kingdom of Sicily from Manfred as a part of the war between the Hohenstaufen dynasty & the Papacy • Following the Sicilian Vespers in 1282, the island of Sicily was lost to Peter III of Aragon. King of Sicily, Naples and Albania
The first Sicilian monarch was Roger I, Count of Sicily. The last monarch was King Ferdinand III of Sicily; during his reign, the Kingdom of Naples merged with the Kingdom of Sicily. The subsequent monarchs were Kings of the Two Sicilies. See also: List of monarchs of Sicily; List of monarchs of Naples. Kings of Naples family tree
Name Father Birth Marriage Became Queen Ceased to be Queen Death Spouse; Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel: Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg 28 August 1691 1 August 1708 17 February 1720 husband's ascension: c. 1735 Sicily ceded to Spain: 21 December 1750 Charles IV
Though he controlled the mainland, he never physically controlled the island of Sicily, where his Bourbon rival had fled from Naples. [1] [2] After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the title of king of Two Sicilies was adopted by Ferdinand IV of Naples in 1816. [3] Under Ferdinand's rule, the Kingdom of Naples and the Kingdom of Sicily were
List of Italian royal consorts. Queen of Italy (regina Italiae in Latin and regina d'Italia in Italian) is a title adopted by many spouses of the rulers of the Italian peninsula after the fall of the Roman Empire. The details of where and how the ruling kings ruled are in the article about them. The elective dignity of Roman Emperor was ...
Italy, Croatia [ a ] The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Italian: Regno delle Due Sicilie) [ 3 ] was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1861 under the control of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, a cadet branch of the Bourbons. [ 4 ] The kingdom was the largest sovereign state by population and land area in Italy before the Italian ...