Aragonese Crusade

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conflict crusade military campaign

The Aragonese Crusade was a late 13th-century papally sanctioned military campaign led mainly by France against the Crown of Aragon, sparked by dynastic and political disputes following Aragon’s intervention in Sicily.

Aliases (4)

Aragonese–Papal relations ×1
Crusade against Aragon ×1
French invasion of Aragon (1284–1285) ×1
Siege of Girona (1285) ×1

Statements (59)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	conflict → crusade → military campaign →
hasAlternativeName	Crusade against Aragon → French invasion of Aragon (1284–1285) →
hasBattle	Battle of Les Formigues → Battle of the Col de Panissars → Battle of the Gulf of Roses → Siege of Girona (1285) →
hasCause	Aragonese intervention in Sicily → War of the Sicilian Vespers → conflict between the House of Aragon and the House of Anjou → dynastic dispute over the Kingdom of Sicily → papal opposition to Peter III of Aragon →
hasChronologicalContext	late 13th century →
hasCommander	Bernat Desclot → Charles of Valois → Edward I of England → James II of Majorca → Peter III of Aragon → Philip III of France → Robert II of Artois → Roger de Lauria → Sancho IV of Castile →
hasEndTime	1285 →
hasLocation	Catalonia → Crown of Aragon → Girona → Kingdom of France → Perpignan → Pyrenees → Roussillon →
hasMainBelligerent	County of Foix → Crown of Aragon → Kingdom of Castile → Kingdom of England → Kingdom of France → Kingdom of Majorca → Kingdom of Navarre → Kingdom of Sicily (Angevin) → Papal States →
hasOpponent	Alfonso III of Aragon → Peter III of Aragon →
hasParticipant	Charles of Valois → James II of Majorca → Peter III of Aragon → Philip III of France → Pope Martin IV → Roger de Lauria →
hasPoliticalContext	Capetian–Aragonese rivalry in the western Mediterranean → conflict between the Papacy and the Crown of Aragon →
hasReligiousCharacter	papally sanctioned crusade →
hasResult	French defeat → confirmation of Aragonese control over Sicily (de facto) → death of Philip III of France → weakening of Capetian influence in the western Mediterranean →
hasStartTime	1284 →
isPartOf	War of the Sicilian Vespers →
wasDeclaredBy	Pope Martin IV →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Crown of Aragon → Peter III of Aragon →	conflict
Aragonese Crusade ("Crusade against Aragon") → Aragonese Crusade ("French invasion of Aragon (1284–1285)") →	hasAlternativeName
Aragonese Crusade ("Siege of Girona (1285)") →	hasBattle
War of the Sicilian Vespers →	hasKeyEvent
Papal investiture of James II of Aragon in 1297 ("Aragonese–Papal relations") →	partOf