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