Charles d'Artois

Charles d'Artois (c. 1300–1346) was the illegitimate son of Robert the Wise of Naples, raised at the royal court. On his deathbed in 1343 Robert named him and Queen Sancia guardians of his granddaughters Joanna and Maria. Joanna I made him Chancellor of the Realm and Count of Sant'Agata de' Goti in 1345.

A leading plotter in the murder that September of her husband Andrew, he was condemned to death and fled with his eldest son to his county. Captured by his enemies, he died at Melfi in 1346, of stress or poison.