Philip of Lagonesse was an official of

Charles I of Sicily Charles I (early 1226/12277 January 1285), commonly called Charles of Anjou, was a member of the royal Capetian dynasty and the founder of the second House of Anjou. He was Count of Provence (1246–85) and Forcalquier (1246–48, 1256–85) i ...

Biography

He was a Frenchman, from

Gonesse Gonesse () is a Communes of France, commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. The commune lies immediately north of Le Bourget Airport, and it is ...

or La Gonesse, a village near

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. His father, Guillaume of Lagonesse, had accompanied Charles on his conquest of the

Kingdom of Sicily The Kingdom of Sicily ( la, Regnum Siciliae; it, Regno di Sicilia; scn, Regnu di Sicilia) was a state that existed in the south of the Italian Peninsula and for a time the region of Ifriqiya from its founding by Roger II of Sicily in 1130 un ...

, and died in 1269. Philip was invested by Charles with the fief of Roccaguglielma in 1272. While serving as seneschal of

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, he was sharply defeated in autumn of 1275 and was forced to retreat into

Provence Provence (, , , , ; oc, Provença or ''Prouvènço'' , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bor ...

, abandoning most of the province. However, before 1278, he had been granted the additional fief of San Nicandro. Made

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of the

some time after Charles' conquest of that kingdom, he was appointed

bailli A bailiff (french: bailli, ) was the king's administrative representative during the ''ancien régime'' in northern France, where the bailiff was responsible for the application of justice and control of the administration and local finances in h ...

and

vicar-general A vicar general (previously, archdeacon) is the principal deputy of the bishop of a diocese for the exercise of administrative authority and possesses the title of local ordinary. As vicar of the bishop, the vicar general exercises the bishop's ...

Achaea Achaea () or Achaia (), sometimes transliterated from Greek as Akhaia (, ''Akhaïa'' ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Western Greece and is situated in the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. The ...

in 1280. His predecessor, Galeran of Ivry, had left the affairs of the principality in disarray, and Philip strove to pay off the troops stationed there and improve the fortresses with funds from the reorganized mint at

Glarentza Glarentza ( el, Γλαρέντζα), also known as or Clarenia, Clarence, or Chiarenza, was a medieval town located near the site of modern Kyllini in Elis, at the westernmost point of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece. Founded in th ...

. After the

Sicilian Vespers The Sicilian Vespers ( it, Vespri siciliani; scn, Vespiri siciliani) was a successful rebellion on the island of Sicily that broke out at Easter 1282 against the rule of the French-born king Charles I of Anjou, who had ruled the Kingdom of S ...

and the revolt of the island of

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, he was recalled from Achaea for the ensuing war. He was invested with Giffoni and Vairano in 1284; he was, in addition, Lord of

Airola Airola is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Benevento in the Italian region Campania, located about 35 km northeast of Naples and about 20 km southwest of Benevento in the Valle Caudina, facing the Monte Taburno. Nearby is ...

. He married the widowed Altruda de Apolita and had four children: *Guglielmo (d. ''v.p.'') *Giovanni (Gianotto), Lord of Airola until 1296, when he lost it to his cousin Carlo *Guglielma (d. aft. 1294), married Sergio Siginolfo, Lord of Mondragone *Mileta, married Gualtieri Caracciolo Pisquizi, Lord of Arnesano

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