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Group: Pannonia Superior (Roman province)
People: Liang Ji
Topic: Western Art: 1816 to 1828
Location: Kéa Kikladhes Greece

Pope Martin IV, having declaring that Peter …

Years: 1283 - 1283

Pope Martin IV, having declaring that Peter III has forfeited his right to rule Aragon because of his supposed conspiratorial intervention in Sicilian affairs, and excommunicated him, now offers the Aragonese kingdom (under the vassalage of the Holy See) to Charles of Valois, the fourth son of King Philip III of France and Isabella of Aragon, and urges the French to launch a crusade against Peter.

Moderately intelligent, disproportionately ambitious and quite greedy, Charles is a son, brother, brother-in-law and son-in-law of kings or of queens (of France, of Navarre, of England, and of Naples).

He thus dreams of more and will seek all his life for a crown he will never obtain.