Pierre d'Angicourt

Pierre d'Angicourt, in French Pierre de Angicourt, in Latin Petrus de Angicuria (Angicourt, ... - active between 1269-1309) was a French architect, for about thirty years at the service of Angevin kings of the Kingdom of Naples during the second half of the thirteenth century.

A Knight and French feudal lord, he worked as Protomagister operum Curie and contributed to the spread of the French Gothic culture in southern Italy. Among other things attributed to him is the introduction of the use of sloping walls and circular defensive towers in the restructuring of Southern Italy Angevin castles in the late thirteenth century.

Among the works attributed to him, there are Lucera Cathedral, the project for the construction of Castel Nuovo, better known as Maschio Angioino in Naples, the castle of Barletta, however, strongly altered during the expansion by the Spaniards, the castle of Mola di Bari, modified in the following centuries, the construction of the choir of the Barletta Cathedral, in addition to Neapolitan churches of San Domenico Maggiore, San Gennaro, St Eligius and San Lorenzo Maggiore and the restoration of the castles of Trani, Canosa di Puglia, Brindisi, Manfrino and Lagopesole.

Bibliography

• Maurizio Pasqua, Pierre d'Angicourt e l'architettura angioina del XIII secolo nel regno di Sicilia: tesi del dottorato di ricerca in storia dell'architettura e dell'urbanistica, coordinatore: Tommaso Scalesse; tutor: Marcello Salvatori; Università degli studi G. D'Annunzio Chieti; Facoltà di architettura di Pescara, Dipartimento di scienze, storia dell'architettura e restauro, 1999.

See also

• Angevins
• Charles I of Naples