Editing Peter III of Aragon (section)

==Death and legacy==
Peter died from unknown causes at [[Vilafranca del Penedès]] in November 1285,{{Sfn|Cabrera Sánchez|2011|pp=112–113}} just one month after [[Philip III of France]], and was buried in the Monastery of [[Santes Creus]].<ref>[http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2009/11/26/actualidad/1259190001_850215.html El País, news on discovery of mummy of Peter III at Monastery of Santes Creus]</ref> His deathbed absolution occurred after he declared that his conquests had been in the name of his familial claims and never against the claims of the church. His remains are entombed in a [[Porphyry (geology)|porphyry]] sarcophagus at the monastery.

Peter made his final testament on 2 November 1285. In it he instructed his successor to return the kingdom of Sicily to the pope and to release all Angevin prisoners of war. Although the will was copied into the royal register, it was ignored by his successors. Peter's eldest son, [[Alfonso III of Aragon|Alfonso III]], inherited Aragon while Sicily went to his second son, [[James II of Aragon|James II]]. His third son, [[Frederick II of Trinacria|Frederick]], later succeeded James as king of Sicily.<ref>Hans-Joachim Schmidt, "The King of Sicily's Testaments: Hidden, Falsified and Forgotten," in ''Memories Lost in the Middle Ages: Collective Forgetting as an Alternative Procedure of Social Cohesion'' (Brepols, 2023), pp. 167–183, at 180.</ref> Peter did not provide for his illegitimate youngest son and namesake, Peter. This Peter left Spain for Portugal with his half-sister Elizabeth.

In the ''[[Divine Comedy]]'', (Purgatory, Canto VII) [[Dante Alighieri]] sees Peter "singing in accord" with his former rival, Charles I of Anjou, outside the gates of [[Purgatory]].