Philip II, Prince of Taranto

Coat of arms of Philip II of Taranto. They are the combination of the arms of Anjou and those of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.

Philip II of Taranto (1329 – 25 November 1374) of the Angevin house, was Prince of Achaea and Taranto, and titular Emperor of Constantinople (as Philip III) from 1364 to his death in 1374.

He was the son of Philip I of Taranto and Catherine of Valois. Upon the execution of his cousin Charles, Duke of Durazzo, in 1348, he succeeded as King of Albania. Shortly after, his older brother Louis married their first cousin, Joanna I of Naples, and became king. In April 1355, Philip married Joanna's younger sister, Maria of Calabria.

In 1364, Philip succeeded as titular Emperor of Constantinople, and Prince of Achaea and Taranto on the death of his oldest brother, Robert.

Maria died in 1366. On 20 October 1370, Philip married yet another Angevin, Elizabeth of Slavonia, former heir presumptive to the throne of Hungary. In 1373, he resigned his rights to the Principality of Achaea to his cousin and former sister-in-law Joanna. He died on 25 November 1374 in Taranto.

All his children had died young. His heir was his sister's son James of Baux, Duke of Andria.

Family

By his first wife, Maria of Calabria, Philip had five children:

• Philip (1356)
• Charles (1358)
• Philip (1360)
• a child, (1362)
• a child, (1366)

By his second wife, Elisabeth of Slavonia, Philip had:

• Philip (1371)

Ancestry

Ancestors of Philip II, Prince of Taranto

16. Louis VIII of France               8. Charles I of Naples                       17. Blanche of Castile               4. Charles II of Naples                             18. Ramon Berenguer IV of Provence               9. Beatrice of Provence                       19. Beatrice of Savoy               2. Philip I of Taranto                                   20. Béla IV of Hungary               10. Stephen V of Hungary                       21. Maria Laskarina               5. Mary of Hungary                             22. Köten               11. Elizabeth the Cuman                       1. Philip II, Prince of Taranto                                         24. Louis IX of France               12. Philip III of France                       25. Marguerite of Provence               6. Charles, Count of Valois                             26. James I of Aragon               13. Isabella of Aragon                       27. Violant of Hungary               3. Catherine of Valois                                   28. Baldwin II of Constantinople               14. Philip of Courtenay                       29. Marie of Brienne               7. Catherine of Courtenay                             30. Charles I of Naples               15. Beatrice of Sicily                       31. Beatrice of Provence