Peter Tempesta

This article is about the Italian count. For the Dutch painter, see Pieter Mulier II.

Peter Tempesta
Count of Eboli, Count of Gravina
Born	1291
Died	29 August 1315 (aged 24)
House	House of Anjou-Sicily
Father	Charles II of Naples
Mother	Maria of Hungary

Peter (1291 – 29 August 1315), called Tempesta (meaning "storm"), was the Count of Eboli from 1306. He was the eighth son of Charles II of Naples and Mary of Hungary (see Elizabeth of Sicily (1261-1300)#Later life). His sobriquet came from his stormy temperament.

In 1309, he received Nocera and Isernia and exchanged Montescaglioso for Sorrento and Castellammare di Stabia. He began serving his brother, King Robert, against the Ghibellines of Uguccione della Faggiuola in Tuscany. He led 300 knights and was given the title of "Vicar of Tuscany, Lombardy, Romagna, the city of Bertinoro, and the city of Ferrara and Captain-General of the Guelph party of Tuscany".

He celebrated a jubilee at Siena and then moved on to Florence, where he stayed with the Mozzi family and the commune granted him a stipend of 4,000 florins. He took Arezzo on 29 September 1314, but Uguccione took Lucca. At Robert's request, Philip I of Taranto brought reinforcements north and met with initial successes, but at the Battle of Montecatini, the combined forces of the Guelphs were defeated by Uguccione and the Ghibellines in a skirmish on the plain. Peter and Philip retreated to Fucecchio and the former died en route, in the marsh, his body was never found.

Ancestry

Family of Peter Tempesta

16. Philip II of France               8. Louis VIII of France                       17. Isabelle of Hainaut               4. Charles I of Naples                             18. Alfonso VIII of Castile               9. Blanche of Castile                       19. Eleanor of England               2. Charles II of Naples                                   20. Alfonso II, Count of Provence               10. Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence                       21. Gersenda II of Sabran               5. Beatrice of Provence                             22. Thomas I of Savoy               11. Beatrice of Savoy                       23. Margaret of Geneva               1. Peter Tempesta                                         24. Andrew II of Hungary               12. Béla IV of Hungary                       25. Gertrude of Merania               6. Stephen V of Hungary                             26. Theodore I Laskaris               13. Maria Laskarina                       27. Anna Angelina               3. Maria of Hungary                                   28. Suthoi, Khan of Cumania               14. Kuthen, Khan of Cumania                       7. Elizabeth the Cuman

Sources

• Ghisalberti, Alberto M. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani: III Ammirato – Arcoleo. Rome, 1961.