Political Changes after the Sicilian Vespers (c. 1302)

Name: Political Changes after the Sicilian Vespers (c. 1302)
Start: 1302
End: 1305

Type Event Region Europe Time 1302–1305

After the 1282 Sicilian Vespers uprising, the Aragonese royal house established rule over Sicily;…

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1302Caltabellotta · SicilyAragon and the Angevin house signed a peace formally recognizing Sicily under Aragon and Naples under Anjou. The War of the Vespers came to an end, and the island's political focus shifted to internal governance and the integration of the nobility.
1303–1305Palermo · SicilyFrederick III strengthened central authority in Palermo, balancing the nobles who had supported the Vespers uprising with the urban communes. Church lands, port tariffs, and the grain trade became focal points of power struggles, and Sicily formed a relatively independent Aragonese vassal polity.

The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century — Steven Runciman (1958)