Philip II, Prince of Taranto

Coat of arms of Philip II of Taranto. They are the combination of the arms of Anjou and those of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.

Philip II of Taranto (1329 – 25 November 1374) of the Angevin house, was Prince of Achaea and Taranto, and titular Emperor of Constantinople (as Philip III) from 1364 to his death in 1374.

He was the son of Philip I of Taranto and Catherine of Valois. Upon the execution of his cousin Charles, Duke of Durazzo, in 1348, he succeeded as King of Albania. Shortly after, his older brother Louis married their first cousin, Joanna I of Naples, and became king. In April 1355, Philip married Joanna's younger sister, Maria of Calabria.

In 1364, Philip succeeded as titular Emperor of Constantinople, and Prince of Achaea and Taranto on the death of his oldest brother, Robert.

Maria died in 1366. On 20 October 1370, Philip married yet another Angevin, Elizabeth of Slavonia, former heir presumptive to the throne of Hungary. In 1373, he resigned his rights to the Principality of Achaea to his cousin and former sister-in-law Joanna. He died on 25 November 1374 in Taranto.

All his children had died young. His heir was his sister's son James of Baux, Duke of Andria.

Family

By his first wife, Maria of Calabria, Philip had five children:

• Philip (1356)
• Charles (1358)
• Philip (1360)
• a child, (1362)
• a child, (1366)

By his second wife, Elisabeth of Slavonia, Philip had:

• Philip (1371)

Ancestry

Monarchs of the Latin Empire of Constantinople
Reigning emperors (1204–1261)	Baldwin I Henry Peter regencies of Yolanda, Conon de Béthune, and Giovanni Colonna Robert I Baldwin II (with John of Brienne as guardian and senior co-emperor)
Titular emperors (1261–1383)	Baldwin II Philip I Catherine I (with Charles) Catherine II (with Philip II) Robert II Philip III James
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