John, Duke of Randazzo (1317–1348) was duke of

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, and Neopatria,

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and regent of

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(1342–1348). The fourth son of

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and

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, he was the most powerful nobleman in Sicily during the reigns of his brother

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and his nephew

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, during whose minority he was regent. He kept the peace during regency, though he supported the Catalan party over the local Italian nobility. Thus he appointed

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, a Catalan, as his successor. War broke out upon his death during the Plague. He married Cesarea, daughter of Peter Count of Castalnasetta and had three recorded children:

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who succeeded him as Duke of Athens and Neopatria; and two daughters

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and Constance. He died of the

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in 1348 and was buried next to his father and nephew in the cathedral of Catania.

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