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Peter III of Aragon (c. 1239 – November 1285) was King of Aragon, King of Valencia (as Peter I), and Count of Barcelona (as Peter II) from 1276 to his death. At the invitation of some rebels, he conquered the Kingdom of Sicily and became King of Sicily in 1282, pressing the claim of his wife, Constance II of Sicily , uniting the kingdom to ...
Peter III, byname Peter The Great, Spanish Pedro El Grande, (born 1239—died Nov. 11, 1285, Villafranca del Panades, Catalonia), king of Aragon from July 1276, on the death of his father, James I, and king of Sicily (as Peter I) from 1282.
Peter III of Aragon ( c. 1239 – November 1285) was King of Aragon, King of Valencia (as Peter I ), and Count of Barcelona (as Peter II) from 1276 to his death.
Peter II the Catholic (Catalan: Pere el Catòlic; Aragonese: Pero II o Catolico) (July 1178 – 12 September 1213) was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona from 1196 to 1213. Background [ edit ] Peter was born in Huesca , [2] the son of Alfonso II of Aragon and Sancha of Castile .
Peter III of Aragon, 1239 – 2 November 1285, was the King of Aragon (as Peter III) of Valencia and of Majorca (as Peter I), and Sovereign Count of Barcelona (as Peter II) from 1276 to his death. He conquered Sicily and became its king in 1282. He was one of the greatest of medieval Aragonese monarchs.
Peter III of Aragon (c. 1236 - 1285): Decameron II.6, X.7 Son of James I of Aragon, Peter III was King of Aragon from 1276-1285. Having married Constance, daughter of Manfred, he came forward as the representative of the claims of the Hohenstaufen in Naples and Sicily against Charles, Duke of Anjou.
Peter III of Aragon, Charles’s rival for the Neapolitan throne, conspired to raise a rebellion against him in Sicily. The rising broke out prematurely when Sicilians, incensed by Charles’s oppressive regime, killed some insulting French soldiers at vespers in the church of Santo Spirito.
(1728 – 1762), emperor of Russia, January 5, 1762, to July 9, 1762. The future Peter III was born Karl Peter Ulrich in Kiel, Germany, in February 1728, the son of the duke of Holstein and Peter I 's daughter Anna Petrovna, who died shortly after his birth.