Manfredi Chiaramonte

Manfredi III Chiaramonte (died November 1391) was a Sicilian nobleman.

Of French origins, he was given the County of Modica, then one of the most powerful fiefs in the Kingdom of Sicily, in 1377. He was also made lord of Trapani, Agrigento, Bivona, Licata, Castronovo, Lentini, Palma di Montechiaro and Mussomeli, where he built a castle which still bears his name. Manfredi was governor of Messina and, after having liberated the island of Jerba from Arab pirates, he was made also lord of it. He held is court in the Palazzo Chiaramonte of Palermo.

Despite having obtained his lands by the Aragonese Kings of Sicily, he usually sided for the Angevines who held the rival Kingdom of Naples. In 1354 Manfredi was besieged in Lentini by the Aragonese troops of Artale I Alagona; the latter was able to capture it by treason only in 1360. Manfredi was captured and imprisoned in Catania; however he later escaped and regained his possessions.

His daughter Costanza married the future King Ladislaus of Naples in Gaeta in 1389. At the death of king Frederick III, Manfredi became viceroy and tried to defend the throne of Sicily by the illegitimate king Martin I. Manfredi Chiaramonte died in Palermo in 1391. His son Andrea Chiaramonte, governor of Palermo, was beheaded in 1392 by Martin I of Aragon after the fall of Palermo.

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Name	Chiaramonte, Manfredi 3
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Date of death	1391
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