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In 1262, he married Constance, daughter and heiress of Manfred of Sicily. He became Peter I of Sicily from 1276 after the Sicilian Vespers expulsed the French from the island. His navy under the admiral Roger of Lauria defeated the invading French crusade at Roses, and his armies crushed the retreating French crusaders at the Coll de Panissars in 1285.
Peter left Aragon to his eldest son Alfonso III of Aragon, and Sicily to his second son James I of Sicily.
| Preceded by: James I | King of AragonHere is a list of the rulers of Aragon now a region of north-eastern Spain. The Aragonese kingdom included the present-day autonomous community of Aragon. The Aragonese kings of the House of Barcelona ruled as well Catalonia (which included Roussillon, no | Succeeded by: Alfonso III |
| Count of BarcelonaThe now-extinct title of Count of Barcelona was, through much of its history, merged with that of King of Aragon; see also List of Aragonese Monarchs. Counts of Barcelona nominated by the ( Frankish) Carolingian monarchs to whom they were feudatories: Ber | ||
| King of ValenciaNote: Titles are those for King of Aragon Kings of Aragon and Valencia, Counts of Barcelona, of the House of Barcelona 1213 1276 James I the Conqueror conquered Valencia, Majorca and Ibiza, wrote the Libre dels feyts 1276 1285 Peter III (I of Valencia, II | ||
| Charles ICharles I (March 1227 January 7, 1285) was the posthumous son of King Louis VIII of France, created Count of Anjou by his elder brother King Louis IX in 1246, thus founding the second Angevin dynasty. In 1266 Charles was invested by Pope Clement IV with t | King of SicilyThe following is a list of monarchs of Naples and Sicily Hauteville Counts of Apulia, 1043-1059 William I Iron-Arm 1043-1046 Drogo 1046-1051 Humphrey 1051-1057 Robert Guiscard 1057-1059 Hauteville Dukes of Apulia, 1059-1130 Robert Guiscard 1059-1085 Roger | James |