List of Neapolitan monarchs

• Member of the House of Anjou-Durazzo Joanna of Naples had refused to name her enemy Charles of Durazzo as heir to the Neapolitan throne despite him ending up succeeding her anyway.

As Charles III had already seized the Neapolitan throne, initially the House of Valois-Anjou only had an empty claim.

Joanna II recognised Louis III of Anjou as heir in 1423, however he died in 1434 before succeeding to the throne.

Louis had no claim to the Neapolitan throne, but as successor to Charles VIII in France he nevertheless wanted to succeed him in Naples as well.

Naples, alongside Sicily entered in a personal union with the Kingdom of Aragon, which lasted for over 2 centuries.

In 1734 Spanish troops conquered the Kingdom of Naples, which was surrendered to Charles of Bourbon under the Treaty of Vienna (1738).