Power

• The King of Naples is strategic about his alliances to secure wealth and power:

  
  

  " Marriage of... Claribel to the King of Tunis in Africa"

  
  

  - Tunis was an economically and culturally rich place

  - the marriage would have been desirable for its trade and diplomatic advantages

  - it ensures that his grandchildren would be royals and he will be guaranteed a position of great political power.