VII. PRINCIPAL SOVEREIGNS CONTEMPORARY WITH DANTE

(1265-1321)

POPES

Clement iv, 1265-1268.

[Purg. iii. 125.]

B. Gregory x, 1271-1276.

B. Innocent v, 1276.

Adrian v, 1276.

[Purg. xix. 88-145.]

John xxi, 1276-1277.

[Par. xii. 134.]

Nicholas iii, 1277-1280.

[Inf. xix. 31 et seq.]

Martin iv, 1281-1285.

[Purg. xxiv. 20-24.]

Honorius iv, 1285-1287.

Nicholas iv, 1288-1292.

St. Celestine v, 1294.

[Inf. iii. 59-60; Inf. xxvii. 105.]

Boniface viii, 1294-1303.

[Inf. xix. 52-57, 76-78; xxvii. 70-111; Purg. viii. 131; xx. 85-90; xxxii. 153-156; Par. ix. 126; xii. 90; xvii. 50; xxvii. 22; xxx. 148.]

B. Benedict xi, 1303-1304.

[Epist. i. 1. Nowhere else mentioned in Dante’s works, though some identify him, rather than Boniface, with the ‘defunct high-priest’ of Epist. viii. 10.]

Clement v, 1305-1314.

[Inf. xix. 82-87; Purg. xxxii. 157-160; Par. xvii. 82; xxvii. 58; xxx. 142-148; Epist. v. 10; vii. 7; viii. 4.]

John xxii, 1316-1334.

[Par. xviii. 130-136; xxvii. 58.]

EMPERORS

Rudolph of Hapsburg, 1273-1291.

[Purg. vi. 103; vii. 94-96; Par. viii. 72; Conv. iv. 3.]

Adolph of Nassau, 1292-1298.

[Conv. iv. 3.]

Albert of Hapsburg, 1298-1308.

[Purg. vi. 97 et seq.; Par. xix. 115; Conv. iv. 3.]

Henry of Luxemburg, Henry vii, 1308-1313.

[Purg. vii. 96; Par. xvii. 82; xxx. 133-138; Epist. v., vi., vii., vii.*, vii.**, vii.***]

Louis of Bavaria, 1314-1347.

KINGS OF FRANCE

St. Louis ix, 1226-1270.

[Not mentioned by Dante; unless, perhaps, indirectly in Purg. vii. 127-129, and xx. 50.]

Philip iii, 1270-1285.

[Purg. vii. 103-105.]

Philip iv, 1285-1314.

[Inf. xix. 87; Purg. vii. 109-111; xx. 91-93; xxxii. 152; Par. xix. 120; Epist. viii. 4.]

Louis x, 1314-1316.

Philip v, 1316-1322.

KINGS OF ENGLAND

Henry iii, 1216-1272.

[Purg. vii. 131.]

Edward i, 1272-1307.

[Purg. vii. 132; Par. xix. 122.]

Edward ii, 1307-1327.

KINGS OF NAPLES AND SICILY

Manfred of Suabia, 1258-1266.

[Purg. iii. 103-145; V. E. i. 12.]

Charles i of Anjou, 1266-1282.

[Inf. xix. 99; Purg. vii. 113, 124; xi. 137; xx. 67-69.]

(After the Vespers of Palermo, Sicily under House of Aragon separated from Angevin Naples.)

KINGS OF NAPLES[42]

Charles i of Anjou, 1282-1285.

Charles ii of Anjou, 1285-1309.

[Purg. v. 69. vii. 126; xx. 79; Par. vi. 106; viii. 72; xix. 127-129; xx. 63; Conv. iv. 6; V. E. i. 12.]

Robert of Anjou, 1309-1343.

[Par. viii. 76-84, 147; Epist. vii. 7; perhaps the ‘Golias’ of Epist. vii. 8.]

KINGS OF SICILY[42]

Peter iii of Aragon, 1282-1285.

James ii of Aragon, 1285-1296.

Frederick ii of Aragon, 1296-1337.

[Purg. iii. 116; vii. 119; Par. xix. 130; xx. 63; Conv. iv. 6; V. E. i. 12.]

KINGS OF ARAGON

James i, 1213-1276.

Peter iii, 1276-1285. (Also King of Sicily after 1282.)

[Purg. vii. 112-129.]

Alfonso iii, 1285-1291.

[Purg. vii. 116.]

James ii, 1291-1327. (King of Sicily from 1285 to 1296.)

[Purg. iii. 116; vii. 119; Par. xix. 137.]

FOOTNOTES:

[42] The Angevin sovereigns of Naples retained the title “King of Sicily and Jerusalem,” the Aragonese ruler of Sicily being “King of Trinacria.”