Pierre d'Angicourt, in French Pierre de Angicourt, in Latin Petrus de Angicuria (

Angicourt Angicourt () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. Population See also *Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 679 communes of the Oise department of France. The communes cooperate in the following ...

, ... - active between 1269 and 1309) was a French architect, for about thirty years at the service of Angevin kings of the

Kingdom of Naples The Kingdom of Naples ( la, Regnum Neapolitanum; it, Regno di Napoli; nap, Regno 'e Napule), also known as the Kingdom of Sicily, was a state that ruled the part of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States between 1282 and 1816. It was ...

during the second half of the thirteenth century. A knight and French feudal lord, he worked as ''Protomagister operum Curie'' and contributed to the spread of the French Gothic culture in southern Italy. Among other things attributed to him is the introduction of sloping fortification walls known as ' and circular defensive towers in the restructuring of Angevin castles of southern Italy in the late thirteenth century. Among the works attributed to him are *the

Lucera Cathedral Lucera Cathedral ( it, Duomo di Lucera; ''Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta di Lucera''; also popularly ''Santa Maria della Vittoria'') is the cathedral of Lucera, Apulia, Italy. The dedication is to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary but ...

, *the project for the construction of

Castel Nuovo Castel Nuovo (; "New Castle"), often called Maschio Angioino (; "Angevin Keep"), is a medieval castle located in front of Piazza Municipio and the city hall ( Palazzo San Giacomo) in central Naples, Campania, Italy. Its scenic location and impo ...

, better known as Maschio Angioino, in Naples, *the castle of Barletta, however, strongly altered during expansion by the Spaniards, *the castle of Mola di Bari, modified in the following centuries, *the construction of the choir of the Barletta Cathedral, *the Neapolitan churches of San Domenico Maggiore, San Gennaro, St Eligius and San Lorenzo Maggiore *the restoration of the castles of Trani, Canosa di Puglia,

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, Manfrino and Lagopesole.

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Bibliography

* Maurizio Pasqua, ''Pierre d'Angicourt e l'architettura angioina del XIII secolo nel regno di Sicilia'': tesi del dottorato di ricerca in storia dell'architettura e dell'urbanistica, coordinatore: Tommaso Scalesse; tutor: Marcello Salvatori; Università degli studi G. D'Annunzio Chieti; Facoltà di architettura di Pescara, Dipartimento di scienze, storia dell'architettura e restauro, 1999. *Alexander Harper,
Pierre d'Angicourt and Angevin Construction
'; Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 75 No. 2, June 2016; (pp. 140–157) DOI: 10.1525/jsah.2016.75.2.140