Timeline Sunday 20 January 1343

Events on Sunday 20 January 1343 2

• 1277 – 1343 Robert of Naples (1277-1343) Died 20 January 1343, aged 65 Robert the Wise, King of Naples, died in Naples after a reign of over three decades marked by patronage of the arts and learning. He hosted and supported the poet Petrarch and was widely regarded as the most learned monarch of his age. He was succeeded by his granddaughter Joanna I.
• 1343 Joanna I becomes Queen of Naples Succession following the death of Robert the Wise On the death of her grandfather Robert the Wise, the sixteen-year-old Joanna I succeeded as ruling Queen of Naples, one of the few women to rule a medieval European kingdom in her own right. Her reign would later be overshadowed by the murder of her husband Andrew of Hungary.