Europe and the Mediterranean in the 13th centurySociety and economy
Sicilian Vespers
On Easter Monday, at the Church of the Holy Spirit outside Palermo, the Sicilians rose against the rule of Charles of Anjou; within a few weeks the French had been killed or driven from the island.
- Date
- 30 March 1282exact dateDate in the Julian calendar
- Place
- Palermotoday: Palermo, Italy · Western and Central Europe
- Participants
- Kingdom of Sicily, Charles I of Anjou, Crown of Aragon
- Threads
- Europe and the Mediterranean in the 13th century
The uprising began during Vespers on 30 March 1282 and quickly spread across all of Sicily. The Sicilians called on King Peter III of Aragon: he landed at Trapani in August and in September was proclaimed King of Sicily in Palermo. There followed the twenty-year War of the Sicilian Vespers, at the end of which the island remained with the House of Aragon, while the Angevin dynasty kept only Naples.
Connections
Related events
- Reconquest of Constantinople25 July 1261 · Balkans and AnatoliaCharles of Anjou was preparing an expedition against Constantinople, and the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII backed his enemies; Michael later wrote that he had been God’s instrument in freeing the Sicilians
Same participants
- Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa16 July 1212 · Western and Central Europevia Crown of Aragon
- Fall of Granada2 January 1492 · Western and Central Europevia Crown of Aragon
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Sources
- Wikipedia (English): Sicilian Vespers
- Wikipedia (Russian): Сицилийская вечерня
- Runciman S. The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century. — Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958.
- Wikidata: Q207327