Robert of Taranto

Robert of Taranto (1319 or 1326–1364), of the Capetian House of Anjou, was the eldest surviving son of Philip I of Taranto and Catherine of Valois. In 1332 his uncle John of Durazzo arranged his acquisition of Achaea in exchange for his claims to Albania.

As he was still a boy, his mother governed Achaea until her death in 1346, when he inherited the Latin imperial title and was recognised as Emperor Robert II by the Latin states of Greece, though his real power rested on Achaea alone.

His 1347 marriage to Marie of Bourbon at Naples was childless. He died in Naples in September 1364, and though his widow tried to keep Achaea for herself and her son by an earlier marriage, his brother Philip II succeeded him.