Charles II of Naples

Charles II, called the Lame (1254–1309), King of Naples, was the son of Charles I of Anjou and Prince of Salerno from 1272. After the Sicilian Vespers, his father made him regent on the mainland in 1283.

Roger of Lauria captured him in 1284; he was still an Aragonese prisoner when his father died in 1285. Crowned by Pope Nicholas IV in 1289, he fought on for Sicily until the Peace of Caltabellotta in 1302, which recognized Frederick's rule for life and the island's return to the Angevins on his death.

His children by Maria of Hungary founded the Neapolitan and Hungarian lines, and he died in May 1309, succeeded by Robert the Wise.