sentences:  On the death of Anthimus, a war of succession broke out in Naples on account of the number of pretenders to the ducal throne.Anthimus had not given his consent to the nobility to elect his successor and so Naples was left without a "de jure" duke on his death.The populace, seeing the uncertainty of the aristocracy, in a coup d'état, invaded the Praetorium with the support of the upper strata of the military hierarchy, and constrained their rulers to send a delegation to Sicily to solicit a new duke from the patrician there, who had authority over the "Ducatus Neapolitanus".