CHAPTER XIII

THE VAMPIRE-MONARCH FROM HUNGARY

Charles’s further acts as dictator—Rise of the favoured Louis of Taranto—Civil war—A scheme of the Empress of Constantinople—Interference of the King of Hungary—The Empress again to the rescue—Hungary’s advance—Death of the Empress—Flight of the Neapolitan nobles—Joan and her husband in Provence—Charles’s well-merited fate—The King of Hungary’s vengeance—Government by execution pp. 244-257