Editing Antibes (section)

===Middle Ages===
The dust eventually settled to leave Antibes within the territory of the [[County of Provence]], itself part of the [[Kingdom of Burgundy-Arles]] and from 1033 the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. In the tenth century the coastal areas of Provence were menaced by '[[Saracen]]' raiders from [[al-Andalus|Muslim Spain]], who were finally driven out when [[William I of Provence|Count William I of Provence]] captured their stronghold at [[Fraxinetum]] in 975. William rewarded the knights who had fought for him in this campaign by [[Feudalism|enfeoffing]] them with the liberated lands in southern Provence. One of these knights was a certain Rodoald, who became Lord of Antibes.<ref>{{cite book |last=Tisserand |first=Eugène |title=Petite Histoire d'Antibes des Origines à la Révolution |date=1876 |publisher=Éditions des Régionalismes |pages=64–8 |isbn=978-2-8240-0609-3}}</ref>

Rodoald's great-grandson Raimbaud appears to have relocated inland to [[Grasse]] around 1050, and {{ill|House of Grasse|lt=his descendants|fr|Maison de Grasse (seigneurs d'Antibes)}} sold the Lordship of Antibes to the bishopric during the episcopate of Bishop Bertrand (fl.1166-76).<ref>{{cite book |last=Tisserand |first=Eugène |title=Petite Histoire d'Antibes des Origines à la Révolution |date=1876 |publisher=Éditions des Régionalismes |page=80 |isbn=978-2-8240-0609-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Tisserand |first=Eugène |title=Petite Histoire d'Antibes des Origines à la Révolution |date=1876 |publisher=Éditions des Régionalismes |pages=70–80 |isbn=978-2-8240-0609-3}}</ref>

During this period Antibes was still being raided periodically by Saracen pirates, and in 1124 they burned down [[Antibes Cathedral]]. The marauders continued to prey on the town over the following century, and in 1244 the Prince-Bishops of Antibes moved to Grasse to escape their depredations. They [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Grasse|remained there for the next five centuries]], despite an attempt to lure them back to Antibes by rebuilding the cathedral in 1250.<ref name="auto1">{{cite book |last=Carli |first=Félicien |title=Antibes: A Short History of Architecture |date=December 2017 |publisher=Éditions due Cardo |page=17 |isbn=978-2-37786-006-7}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=https://www.antibesjuanlespins.com/en/discover/antibes-juan-les-pins-a-mediterranean-city/antibes-juan-les-pins-a-rich-history |title=Antibes Juan-les-Pins, a rich history |website=Antibes Juan-les-Pins |date=28 January 2019 |access-date=29 January 2021}}</ref>{{sfn|Coolidge|1911}}

When the [[Western Schism]] began in 1378, splitting the Catholic world between two rival popes, the Bishop of Grasse backed [[Pope Urban VI]] even though [[Marie of Blois, Duchess of Anjou|Marie de Blois]], mother of and regent to the infant [[Louis II of Anjou|Count Louis II of Provence]], was a supporter of Urban's enemy [[Antipope Clement VII]]. In 1383 Marie therefore confiscated the Lordship of Antibes from the Bishops of Grasse and two years later awarded it to the brothers Marc and Luc Grimaldi, of the [[Republic of Genoa|Genoese]] [[House of Grimaldi]]. The new Grimaldi lords built the [[Musée Picasso (Antibes)|Château Grimaldi]] as their residence in the town.<ref>{{cite book |last=Tisserand |first=Eugène |title=Petite Histoire d'Antibes des Origines à la Révolution |date=1876 |publisher=Éditions des Régionalismes |pages=121–3 |isbn=978-2-8240-0609-3}}</ref>

After the deaths of the Grimaldi brothers (Marc in 1398 and Luc in 1409), control of the Lordship of Antibes passed to five co-heirs. As a result of this fragmentation of power, the actions of individual local lords became increasingly irrelevant to the town's history, with the higher authority of the Count of Provence assuming greater significance instead.<ref>{{cite book |last=Tisserand |first=Eugène |title=Petite Histoire d'Antibes des Origines à la Révolution |date=1876 |publisher=Éditions des Régionalismes |pages=131–5 |isbn=978-2-8240-0609-3}}</ref>