Everlasting torture
23 June 1287. On this day the naval Battle of the Counts was fought near Naples in present-day Italy.
Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola and one of the sons of Earl Simon of Leicester, was captured at the battle. He had taken service with Charles of Anjou, Edward I's uncle, in an attack on Sicily. The allies were defeated by the Aragonese under one of the gr…
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