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The battle of the accounts O Second naval battle of Castellammare It took place on June 23, 1287 in front of Castellammare in Naples, when an Aragonese-Sicilian fleet commanded by Ruggero di Lauria defeated a large allied fleet of the Angevin Kingdom of Naples (Pugliese and the Principality), consisting of about seventy galleys commanded respectively From Reynald III Quarrel and Narjot de Touty.

It is also called the “battle of the accounts” because the Angevin forces of Count Roberto d’Artois were commanded by the Count of Avella Reynald Quarrel, by the count of Brienne Ugo di Brienne, by the Count of L’Aquila Jean de Joinville, and by the Count of Nola Guido di Montfort. [first]

After the victory in the naval battle of Malta on July 8, 1283, Ruggero di Lauria went to provoke the Angevins attacking the Calabrian coast, Naples and Posillipo. [2] Finally, in the absence of Charles I D’Angiò, the Prince of Salerno Charles II of Naples assembled a fleet to go to cross him. [3] The attack was launched near Naples in front of Castellammare by Carlo di Salerno lame which was defeated and captured.

From 1282 to 1285 the conflict between the two crowns had moved to Catalonia, where the crusade against the crown of Aragon suffered a humiliating defeat in the battle of Panissars and in the naval battle of Les Formigues. In the first months of 1285 he died in Foggia Charles I of Anjou and Carlo Lo Zoppo was proclaimed successor, but since he was still a prisoner of the Catalans, the regency Roberto d’Artois and the Pontifical Legate Gerardo di Parma was entrusted.

Ruggero di Lauria went to the attack in the Languedoc [4] In February 1286 and Bernat de Sarrià and Berenguer de Vilaragut attacked the coast of Puglia [5] As a revenge for the invasion of the French in Catalonia the month before, with the intent to reduce the potential supplies of ships and men for the angioin faction in war in Sicily.

Pope Honorius IV pushed the Angevins to resume the assault on Sicily and collected 40 galleys in Brindisi and 43 others in Sorrento. In April 1287 the Flotta di Brindisi, led by Reynald III Quarrel, Count of Avella, landed in Augusta on May 1st, taking the city and the castle. [5]

As soon as Giacomo became aware of it, he sent the Roger of Lauria fleet, but the Angioina fleet had already left the island for Sorrento along the South coast by meeting at the Narjot de Touy fleet for a maneuver to distract the wing of the crown D ‘Aragona, to launch a new invasion from the south-west of Sicily.

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Battle of the Gulf of Naples, Ruggiero di Lauria captures Carlo Lo Zoppo, painting by Ramón Tusquets, 1885

The Ruggiero di Lauria fleets went in search of the fleet that had escaped Augusta and found it in Naples on June 23, 1287, but so close to the city he could not attack. Thus began a bombing of the city to attract the Angevins.

The Angevin fleet, commanded by Roberto d’Artois was made up of five naval teams, each commanded by a count: Reynald III Quarrel, count of Avella, Ugo di Brienne, count of Brienne, Jean de Joinville, count of L’Aquila and Guy de Montfort, count of Nola, each with his flagship ship, with four galleys on each side and two behind, and the admiral with two others on the front. The other galleys were in reserve, and two ships escorted the papal flags and Angioine. Ruggero di Lauria had forty galleys with which he chased the fleet from Sicily; He made a tactical retreat to disperse the enemy fleet to counterattack the Angevin side by attacking rowers.

The battle lasted all day and in the end the Genoese admiral Enrico De Mari escaped the Aragonese, who had fewer ships but crews and soldiers more experienced in naval combat and in the bordering actions, [first] which captured 40 galleys and made 5,000 prisoners, including most of the Angevin nobility. [6]

Shortly after the naval victory, the Angevin forces of Augusta stopped. [7]

Charles II of Anjou was released under the Treaties of Oloron [8] and of Canfranc and was crowned in Rieti on 29 May 1289 receiving the titles of the Pope Carlo di Palermo and of King of Sicily. A two -year -old truce was signed, however he sets due to the mamlucchi who threatened acri.

The death of Alfonso III of Aragon, the Franco, in 1291 will originate, four years later, to a new great conflict between the Crown of Aragon and the Kingdom of Sicily because James II of Aragon “Il Giusto” was proclaimed Conte Re of the Crown of Aragon and delegated the kingdom of Sicily to the younger brother Federico.

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  7. ^ ( IN ) Spencer C. Tucker, A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East , ABC-CILO, 2009, pp. P.291, ISBN 1-85109-672-8
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