The
War of the Sicilian Vespers or just
War of the Vespers was a conflict that started with the insurrection of the
Sicilian Vespers against
Charles of Anjou in 1282, and ended in 1302 with the
peace of Caltabellotta. It was fought in
Sicily,
Catalonia (the
Aragonese Crusade) and elsewhere in the western
Mediterranean between, on one side, the
Angevin Charles of Anjou, his son
Charles II, the
kings of France and the Papacy, and on the other side, the
kings of Aragon. The war resulted in the division of the old
Kingdom of Sicily; at Caltabellotta, Charles II was confirmed as king of the peninsular territories of Sicily (the
Kingdom of Naples), while
Frederick III was confirmed as king of the island territories (the
Kingdom of Trinacria).