Kings of Both Sicilies

Sicily and Southern Italy were under Arab and Byzantine control when Norman knights conquered the region during the 11^th century and created an independent state. It was called the kingdom of Sicily from 1130. The kingdom was divided in two parts 1282 after a rebellion on the island of Sicily. The mainland retained the name "kingdom of Sicily" although it is usually referred to as the "kingdom of Naples", on the other hand the official name of the island state was the "kingdom of Trinacria" but it was usually called the "kingdom of Sicily". When these two kingdoms were ruled by the same king they were usually called the "kingdom of Both Sicilies", although it did not become the official name until 1815.

Counts of Sicily		Dukes of Apulia and Calabria
1062-1101 1101-1113 1113-1130	Ruggero I Simone Ruggero II	1059-1085 1085-1111 1111-1127 1127-1130	Roberto il Guiscardo Ruggero Borsa Guglielmo Ruggero II

Kingdom of Sicily

Norman Dynasty

1130-1154 1154-1166 1166-1177 1177-1190 1190-1194 1194	Ruggero II (earlier count and duke)
	Guglielmo I (the Bad)
	Guglielmo II, il Bouno (the Good) Interregnum Tancredi di Lecce Guglielmo III di Lecce
House of Hohenstaufen
1194-1197 1198-1250 1212-1235 1250-1254 1254-1268 1258-1266	Enrico I Federico I Enrico II Corrado I Corrado II (Konradin) Manfredi
House of Anjou
1266-1282	Carlo I (king of Naples to 1285)

Sicily House of Barcelona			Naples House of Anjou
1282-1285 1285-1296 1296-1337 1337-1342 1342-1355 1355-1377 1377-1402 1392-1409 1409-1410 1410-1412	Pietro I Giacomo Federico II Pietro II Luigi Federico III Maria Martino I Martino II Interregnum		1282-1285 1285-1309 1309-1343 1343-1381	Carlo I Carlo II (the Lame) Roberto I (the Wise) Giovanna I
			1343-1345 1381-1386 1386-1414	Andrea d´Ungheria Carlo III di Durazzo Ladislao di Durazzo
			1414-1435 1434-1442	Giovanna II Renato (the Good)
House of Trastámara			Houses of Trastámara and Valois
1412-1416 1416-1458 1458-1479 1479-1516	Ferdinando Alfonso I Giovanni Ferdinando II		1442-1458 1458-1494 1494-1495 1495 1495-1496 1496-1501 1501-1504 1501-1516	Alfonso I
				Ferdinando I (Ferrante) Alfonso II
				Carlo (VIII) Ferdinando II Federico IV
				Luigi (XII)
				Ferdinando III

Sicily and Naples

A series of wars called the Italian Wars began at the end of 15^th century. They erupted because the French kings inherited the house of Anjous’s claim on the kingdom of Naples. The French managed to conquer Naples two times, the last time (1501) in collaboration with the Spanish king Ferdinand the Catholic, who became co-regent in Naples. He outmanoeuvred the French from the kingdom 1503-04 so that he became the sole ruler of Both Sicilies.

1516-1556 1556-1598 1598-1621 1621-1665 1665-1700	House of Habsburg
	Carlo II and V Filippo I Filippo II Filippo III Carlo III and VI
1700-1713	House of Bourbon
	Filippo IV
1714-1720	House of Savoy (in Sicily)
	Vittorio Amadeo
1714-1735	House of Habsburg
	Carlo IV and VII
1735-1759 1759-1815	House of Bourbon
	Carlo V and VIII * Ferdinando IV and III
1799	Parthenopean Republic (Naples)
Kingdom of Naples (French satellite state on the mainland 1806-1815)
1806-1808 1808-1815	Guiseppe Bonaparte (Joseph) Gioacchino Murat (Joachim Murat) **
Both Sicilies
1815-1825 1825-1830 1830-1859 1859-1860	Ferdinando I (restored) Francesco I Ferdinando II Francesco II

Both Sicilies was 1860 conquered by Garibaldi and became a part of the unified Italy