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His heart (along with his liver and some other organs) was buried in Monreale<br />
Abbey following a funeral en route to France. These are preserved in a small chapel<br />
in the abbey cathedral. Few Sicilians - or French, for that matter - are aware of this,<br />
or the fact that more of the saint is preserved in Sicily than in France.<br />
Originally, Louis' body, minus his heart, was placed into a tomb at Saint Denis<br />
outside Paris. During the Revolution most of the royal tombs, including his, were<br />
desecrated and their contents dispersed. Today all that remains in the tomb of<br />
Saint Louis in Saint Denis is a finger.<br />
Kingdom of Sicily under the Crown of Aragon and Spain<br />
After a few more years of general warfare, marked by the Battle of the Counts on 23<br />
June 1287, w<strong>here</strong> the Angevines were defeated near Naples, the Treaty of Tarascon<br />
of 1291 officially restored Aragon to his heir, Alfonso, and lifted the ban of the<br />
church. A 20-year war for possession of Sicily followed between the Angevin kings<br />
of Naples and the Aragonese kings of Sicily.<br />
Sicily was ruled as an independent kingdom by relatives or cadet branch of the<br />
house of Aragon until 1409 and thence as part of the Crown of Aragon. The<br />
Kingdom of Naples was ruled by the Angevin ruler René of Anjou until the two<br />
thrones were reunited by Alfonso V of Aragon, after the successful siege of Naples<br />
and the defeat of René on June 6, 1443. Eventually, Alfonso of Aragon divided the<br />
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