Siege of Messina (1301)

The siege of Messina was a land engagement in which an Angevin army attempted to besiege the Sicilian city of Messina in 1301. Fought during the final years of the War of the Sicilian Vespers, the siege came after a three-year campaign by an Angevin−Aragonese−Papal alliance to invade Sicily and re-establish Angevin control over the island kingdom. The siege was the second time in the conflict that Messina had been besieged by an Angevin army—the first siege of Messina having failed in 1282.

In the spring of 1301, the Angevins succeeded in surrounding the city and establishing a naval blockade. However, efforts by the Sicilians to resupply the city succeeded, and ultimately the Angevin army was forced to withdraw. The defeat of the siege marked the last major Angevin campaign of the war.