Battle of Ponza (1435)
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The naval battle of Ponza took place on August 5, 1435. The battle resulted in the Genoese defeating and capturing Alfonso V of Aragon
Alfonso V of Aragon
Alfonso the Magnanimous KG was the King of Aragon , Valencia , Majorca, Sardinia and Corsica , and Sicily and Count of Barcelona from 1416 and King of Naples from 1442 until his death...

, his brother John II of Aragon
John II of Aragon
John II the Faithless, also known as the Great was the King of Aragon from 1458 until 1479, and jure uxoris King of Navarre from 1425 until his death. He was the son of Ferdinand I and his wife Eleanor of Alburquerque...

, and all the nobles of Aragon Another of Alfonso's brothers, Pedro, managed to escape.

Aftermath

Alfonso and John were both taken as a prisoner to Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

, but Alfonso managed to convince Filippo Maria Visconti
Filippo Maria Visconti
Filippo Maria Visconti was ruler of Milan from 1412 to 1447.-Biography:Filippo Maria Visconti, who had become nominal ruler of Pavia in 1402, succeeded his assassinated brother Gian Maria Visconti as Duke of Milan in 1412. They were the sons of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Gian Maria's predecessor, by...

 to withdraw his support for René of Anjou, and both were released to their brother Pedro.

Popular culture

The battle gained fame as the setting for Indigo Lopez de Mendoza (the Marquis de Santillana) poem La comedieta de Ponza.
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