Charles I (21 March 12277 January 1285), known also as
Charles of Anjou, was the
King of Sicily by conquest from 1266, though he had received it as a
papal grant in 1262 and was expelled from the island in the aftermath of the
Sicilian Vespers of 1282. Thereafter, he claimed the island, though his power was restricted to the peninsular possessions of the kingdom, with his capital at
Naples (and for this he is usually titled King of Naples after 1282, as are his successors).