Bartolomeo d'Aragona ( en, Bartholomew) was a
Sicilian statesman, the eldest son and heir of
Vinciguerra d'Aragona. His surname derives from the fact that he was a great-great-grandson of
Peter III of Aragon in the male line.
He succeeded his father as count of
Cammarata
Cammarata is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Agrigento in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo and about north of Agrigento on the eponymous mountain, which has an elevation above sea level in a territor ...
in an unknown year (1379 - 1381 with castles of Motta S. Agata and Pietra d'Amico). He was opposed to the succession of
Martin I in 1390 and was appointed
seneschal of Sicily on 10 July 1391 at a meeting of the baronage at
Castronovo. In 1391 he added title to
Ficarra,
Raccuja
Raccuja is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about east of Palermo and about west of Messina.
Raccuja borders the following municipalities: San Piero Patti, Sant'Angelo di Br ...
,
Librizzi
Librizzi ( Sicilian: ''Libbrizzi'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about east of Palermo and about west of Messina
Messina (, also , ) is a harbour city and the capit ...
,
Galati,
Calatabiano
Calatabiano ( scn, Cattabbianu) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania in Sicily, southern Italy.
Geography
Calatabiano is located about 60 metres above the sea level. It is located about 42 kilometres northeast of C ...
,
Oliveri,
Piraino
Piraino ( Sicilian: ''Piràinu'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about east of Palermo and about west of Messina.
The municipality of Piraino contains the ''frazioni'' (s ...
,
Sant'Angelo di Brolo,
Tortorici,
Zuppardino and
Naso (with castle of
Capo d'Orlando
Capo d'Orlando ( scn, Capu d'Orlannu) is a in the Metropolitan City of Messina, Sicily, southern Italy, one of the main centers of the mountain and coastal Nebrodi area.
History
After the destruction of the Greek colony of Agathyrnum ...
) to his résumé. He rebelled openly in 1393, but submitted in 1396 to the offer of
Guglielmo Ventimiglia.
In 1397 Bartolomeo again rebelled, this time with
Guglielmo Raimondo de Moncada and
Antonio de Ventimiglia, count of
Collesano
Collesano ( grc, Κολασσαέων, translit=Kolassaéon; el, Κολεσάνο, Kolesáno Sicilian: ''Culisanu'') is a small town in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily. It is situated roughly from the provincial capital of Palermo.
It ...
. After Martin and the
Papacy
The pope ( la, papa, from el, πάππας, translit=pappas, 'father'), also known as supreme pontiff ( or ), Roman pontiff () or sovereign pontiff, is the bishop of Rome (or historically the patriarch of Rome), head of the worldwide Cathol ...
reached an agreement, Bartolomeo fled to exile at the court of
Ladislaus of Naples
Ladislaus the Magnanimous ( it, Ladislao, hu, László; 15 February 1377 – 6 August 1414) was King of Naples from 1386 until his death and an unsuccessful claimant to the kingdoms of Hungary and Croatia. Ladislaus was a skilled political and m ...
. He armed a small fleet in 1400 in an attempt to return to Sicily, but he was defeated and died in exile.
His daughter Bartolomea spouse of
Enrico II de Ventimiglia, Count of
Geraci, and mother of
Giovanni I de Ventimiglia, Viceroy of Sicily and
Duchy of Athens
The Duchy of Athens (Greek: Δουκᾶτον Ἀθηνῶν, ''Doukaton Athinon''; Catalan: ''Ducat d'Atenes'') was one of the Crusader states set up in Greece after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade as part of th ...
, Governor of
Napoli
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
, Marquis of Geraci (1436), Count of
Montesarchio, lord of
Bitonto,
Sciacca
Sciacca (; Greek: ; Latin: Thermae Selinuntinae, Thermae Selinuntiae, Thermae, Aquae Labrodes and Aquae Labodes) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Agrigento on the southwestern coast of Sicily, southern Italy. It has views of the Medit ...
,
Cefalù etc.
Sources
*Ghisalberti, Alberto M., ed. ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani: III Ammirato – Arcoleo''. Rome, 1961.
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