Andrea Chiaramonte

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Andrea Chiaramonte (???? – 1 June 1392) was a representative of the Sicilian nobility in the 14th century.

Andrea Chiaramonte was given the County of Modica, which included the municipalities of Modica, Ragusa, Scicli, Pozzallo, Ispica, Chiaramonte Gulfi, Comiso, Giarratana, Monterosso Almo. He was the lord of Caccamo, Castronovo, of the castle of Palma di Montechiaro, and of the castle of Mussomeli. He also inherited the title of Count of Malta and Gozo from his father Manfredi Chiaramonte. He established his court at the Palazzo Steri in Palermo.

Andrea succeeded Manfredi as the seventh count of Modica, and continued the policy of aversion to the Aragoneses of Sicily. When Martino the Younger, who had become king of Sicily following his marriage to Maria di Sicilia, reconquered the island militarily, the Chiaramontes found themselves together with the Alagones alone to face the Catalan army of Bernat (or Bernardo) Cabrera.

Andrea, defeated and betrayed, was captured and sentenced to death. He was 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, Moncada and the Sidoti and Landolina.^[1]

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• "Casata Chiaramonte". mussomelilive.altervista.org.
• "Andrea Chiaramonte e la Congiura dei Baroni" (PDF).