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RENt, re-na, or RENATUS I (re-na!tfis) OF ANJOU (called also THE Goon), titular king of Naples : b. Angers, 16 Jan. 1409; d. Aix, 10 July 1480. He was the second son of Louis II, Duke of Anjou. He inherited Anjou and Provence, besides claims upon Naples, Sicily and Jerusalem from his brother Louis III in 1434, and these rights were confirmed by Joanna II before her death in 1435. Rene had in 1420 married the daughter of Charles II, Duke of Lorraine, and had in 1431 become possessed of that dukedom. But in the same year Count An
tony of Vaudemont took him prisoner, where upon the Lorraine states appealed to the Em peror Sigismund to decide the quarrel. Rene in 1432 was released from his prison for a year by giving his sons as hostages. At last, in 1434, Sigismund gave a decision in Reties favor. The dethroned Antony proceeded to the Duke of Burgundy, who required Rene again to place himself in custody. Scarcely had this been done when an embassy arrived to tender him possession of Naples and Sicily. Philip refused to set Rene at liberty, and the ambassadors therefore conferred the crown on his wife Isabella, whom her husband named regent of Anjou, Provence, Naples and Sicily. Isabella set sail for Naples, but there found a competitor in Alfonso, king of Aragon, who maintained his position not only against her, but also against Rene himself, after he had obtained his liberty in 1437. Rene, obliged to abdicate, re turned to Provence. The government of Lor raine he gave up to his son John, who, after his mother Isabella's death, entered into full possession under the title of John II. On this Rene retired to Provence to give himself to poetry and the arts. His literary remains were edited by Count de Quatrebarbes (1845-46). Consult also Boisson de la Salle,
His torique> (1820) ; Bargemont, 'Histoire de Rene d'Anjou, Roi de Naples, Duc de Lorraine, et Comte de Provence' (1825); Marche,
Roi Rene: sa vie et ses
(1875) ; Staley,