Raimondo del Balzo

Raimondo del Balzo (1264–1321), second Angevin count of Avellino, was the son of Bertrand des Baux. He was captured at Berat in 1281 fighting Byzantium, and again in June 1287, when Roger of Lauria crushed the Angevin fleet off Naples; he was held until 1290.

Charles II made him captain-general in 1294, and he fought in the 1299 Sicilian campaign. After the peace of 1302, he saw to his troubled estates in Provence and Italy, later serving as seneschal in both regions. In 1321, campaigning in Calabria with five hundred Provençal knights, he was killed at Grusana in a night attack, unrecognized, by his own soldiers.