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them for not handing over Sicily to papal officers and confiscated their fiefs. In
September a treaty was signed giving the Pope authority in Apulia, but in October,
while accompanying Innocent into his new domains, Manfredi and Frederick
escaped. With the aid of the local Saracen settlers they took control of Lucera on 2
November. On 12 November, Innocent, referring to Frederick as "our faithful man"
(fidelis noster), restored to him the counties of Alba, Celano and Loreto. It is
possible that Frederick had entered into negotiations with the pope on his own
initiative, but it is more likely that Innocent intended to coax him away from
Manfredi, as he had already successfully done with Galvano.
After the death of Innocent and the election of Alexander IV in 1255, Frederick rejoined
Manfredi in the south. The following year, in 1256 and always in Foggia,
occupied by Ottaviano Ubaldini, the Cardinal, Frederick of Antioch, who had been
unable to resist more in Tuscany, died by falling into an ambush. While Frederick
of Antioch was going to meet with Manfredi, which together had to assert the rights
of their kingdom, instead of Manfredi he found the soldiers of the Pope so
disappeared from history, "one of the most attractive figures of the time Swabian”
(R. Davidsohn). Fredrick before was buried in the Cathedral of Santa Lucia di
Mola, here Peter III of Aragon, Sicily, after the solemn funeral in the cathedral,
temporarily laid the body of Frederick waiting to be then transported in the
cathedral of Palermo. Fredrick of Antioch the only son of Emperor Frederick of
Antioch who rest beside his father in the Cathedral of Palermo. By the will of
Conrad IV the regents of the Kingdom of Sicily were already princes of Antioch.
Dead Emperor Frederick II (1250) and his successor Conrad IV (1254) that left his
son Conradin of just two years old, Manfred (Manfredi), another natural son of
Frederick II and, therefore half-brother of Frederick of Antioch, took power in the
Reign taking, protection of the legitimate heir to the throne.
Origins of the claims of Kingdom of Jerusalem
Over the years, many European rulers claimed to be the rightful heirs to one of
these claims. None of these claimants, however, has actually ruled over any part of
the Kingdom:
Count Hugh of Brienne claimed the regency of the kingdom of Jerusalem, and
indirectly, his place in the succession in 1264 as senior heir of Alice of Jerusalem,
second daughter of Queen Isabella I, and Hugh I of Cyprus. Hugh, being the son of
their eldest daughter, was passed over by the Haute Cour in favour of his cousin
Hugh of Antioch, the future Hugh III of Cyprus and Hugh I of Jerusalem. The
Brienne claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem continued, but the family had
afterwards next to no part in affairs in Outremer.
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