Andrea Chiaramonte (???? – 1 June 1392) was a representative of the Sicilian nobility in the

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. Andrea Chiaramonte was given the

County of Modica The County of Modica was a feudal territory within the Kingdom of Sicily from 1296 to 1812. Its capital was Modica, on the southern tip of the island, although the cities of Ragusa and Scicli housed some government offices for a period. Today it ...

, which included the municipalities of

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. He was the lord of

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, Castronovo, of the castle of

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, and of the castle of

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. He also inherited the title of

Count of Malta The County of Malta was a feudal lordship of the Kingdom of Sicily, relating to the islands of Malta and Gozo. Malta was essentially a fief within the kingdom, with the title given by Tancred of Sicily the Norman king of Sicily to Margaritus of ...

and

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from his father Manfredi Chiaramonte. He established his court at the Palazzo Steri in

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. Andrea succeeded Manfredi as the seventh count of Modica, and continued the policy of aversion to the Aragonese of Sicily. When

Martin I Martin I may refer to: * Pope Martin I (c. 590/600–655), bishop of Rome 649–655 * Martin I (bishop of Oviedo) (died 1101) * Martin I (archbishop of Gniezno) (died after 1112) * Martin I of Aragon (1356–1410) * Martin I of Sicily (1374/6–1 ...

became king of Sicily following his marriage to Maria di Sicilia, he then reconquered the island militarily, the Chiaramontes found themselves together with the Alagonas alone to face the Catalan army of Bernat (or Bernardo) Cabrera. Andrea, defeated and betrayed, was captured on May 17 along with Manfredo Alagona, and the archbishop of Palermo. He was

sentenced to death Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in s ...

for the felony of rebellion, and executed by beheading on 1 June 1392 in Palermo in front of the Steri palace. With him, the Chiaramonte family diminished as their assets were confiscated and divided between Guglielmo Raimondo II Moncada, the Sidoti and Landolina.

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* * {{Cite web, title=Andrea Chiaramonte e la Congiura dei Baroni, url=http://www.editorialeagora.it/rw/articoli/103.pdf, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060512012737/http://www.editorialeagora.it/rw/articoli/103.pdf, url-status=dead, archive-date=May 12, 2006 1392 deaths Chiaramonte family People executed by decapitation Counts of Malta 14th-century Sicilian people