Toynbee "Carlo_1, summarized for Inferno"
Charles I, king of Naples and Sicily, count of Anjou and Provence. He was born in 1226; in 1246 he married Beatrice, youngest daughter of Count Raymond Berenger IV of Provence, in whose right he became count of Provence after the death of Beatrice in 1267. He married Margaret of Burgundy, daughter of Eudes, duke of Burgundy, in 1268; and in 1266, after the defeat of Manfred at Benevento, he became king of Naples and Sicily; he died Jan. 7, 1284/5.

D. places Charles in the valley of flowers in Ante-Purgatory among the princes whose worldly cares caused them to put off repentance until the last moment. Sordello, who points him out, refers to him as colui dal maschio naso, [Purg. vii. 113], [Antipurgatorio].

He is mentioned in the Inferno in connextion with Pope Nicholas II, who was his enemy, [Inf. xxix. 99]. His victory at Ceprano (where Manfred was defeated in 1266) and at Tagliacozzo (where Conradin was defeated in 1268) are alluded to, [Inf. xxviii. 16-17].

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©Oxford University Press 1968. From A Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante by Paget Toynbee (1968) by permission of Oxford University Press