Aragon had fulfilled its territorial aims in…

Aragon had fulfilled its territorial aims in the thirteenth century when it annexed Valencia.

The Catalans, however, look for further expansion abroad, and their economic views prevail over those of the parochial Aragonese nobility, who are not enthusiastic about foreign entanglements.

Peter III, king of Aragon from 1276 until 1285, is elected to the throne of Sicily when the French Angevins (House of Anjou) are expelled from the island kingdom during an uprising in 1282.

Sicily, and later Naples, becomes part of the federation of Spanish crowns, and Aragon, become embroiled in Italian politics, which will continue to affect Spain into the eighteenth century.