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Robert of Durazzo (
1326 –
September 19 1356,
Poitiers) was the third son of
John, Duke of Durazzo and
Agnes de Périgord.
He was the lord of Cappacio, Muro, and Montalbano in the
Kingdom of Naples. Captured in 1350 at the siege of
Aversa, he was held prisoner by
Louis I of Hungary until 1352. After his release, he took refuge with his uncle the
Cardinal de Périgord in
Avignon, which had just been sold to the Papacy by
Joan I of Naples.
His uncle attempted to arrange a marriage for him with the niece of
Giovanni Visconti, lord of
Milan, but on his journey to Milan, Robert was arrested by
James of Piedmont. James' wife, Sibylle des Baux, was convinced that Robert and his Durazzeschi kin had arranged the recent murder of her nephew Robert, Count of Avellino. (Robert had married, by force, Marie of Naples; but falling into the hands of
Louis of Taranto, was murdered by his wife's orders in the
Castel dell'Ovo.) Robert wasn't released until
March 18,
1355, through the efforts of his uncle and
Pope Innocent IV, and was made to swear to take no revenge on his captors. He immediately broke the promise by seizing the fortress of
Les Baux on
April 6,
1355. This was the Provençal seat of
Raymond des Baux, brother and successor of the murdered Robert. The Pope was outraged; Robert was defended by his uncle in the papal curia, but didn't escape excommunication. After an unsuccessful attempt at mediation by
Walter VI of Brienne and others, local levies besieged the castle, and by July, Robert was compelled to surrender it to its rightful owner.
He accompanied the Cardinal to the
Battle of Poitiers. Before the battle, the Cardinal attempted to mediate between the English forces under
Edward, the Black Prince and the French forces under
John II of France. Robert, like many of the Cardinal's men, joined the fight on the French side, and was killed there. This violation of the neutrality which ought to adhere to a churchman and mediator so provoked Edward the Black Prince that he'd Robert's body borne on a shield to the Cardinal as a mocking salute.
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