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CORRADO CAPUTO PRINCE OF ANTIOCH
Prince of Antioch of the House of Hohenstaufen. Vicar General for the island of Sicily, grandson of
Frederick II. Prince of Abruzzo (1267), Duke of Spoleto, Count of Alba, Celano (1258), Laureto and
Abruzzo (1267), Count of Loreto (1285). Baron of Anticoli, Saracinesco, Rocca dei Surici, Rocca di
Muzzi and Sambuci.
Corrado I Prince of Antioch, the grandson of
Emperor Frederick II, has always been present
on the Italian scene of the second half of the
thirteen century. While the shadow of “big” as
Manfred and Conradin, he is the protagonist of
his time. Survived the holocaust of the partisan
of Hohenstaufen, at the end of his live he even
becomes a symbol: a living memory of the
Swabian Age, and point of reference, at least the ideal of all the
Italian Ghibellines. His existence is marked by adventure and feudatory knight,
pirate, prince and gentleman, for four times escapes from prison and three times he
was excommunicated. However, he is capable of founding a dynasty in Val d’
Aniene to Anticoli Corrado that took his name, he is still remembered and died of
old age, reconciled with the Church.
Corrado knows defeats and victories. Always loyal and avid supporter of the
Imperial House of Hohenstaufen. Corrado of Antioch is a rare example of a
consistently explained even in the light of a childhood and an adolescence spent in
direct contact with that Ghibelline world in which, for blood ties, already occupied
an important place. Ties of those tumultuous events of his time seem to
strengthening the making of the threads of his existence.
Corrado of Antioch, one of the most avid supporters of the Swabians, is almost
completely ignored by historians that, yet, he is occupied with considerable interest
of the complex and last phase of the Swabian domination in Italy.
Corrado Caputo of Antioch, born between 1240 and 1241, we do not know the
precise date of birth and we formulate the hypotheses addressing the life of his
father Federico (Frederick) of Antioch and his family matters. A document in which
Frederick of Antioch is married on February 10, 1240 (J.L.A. Hillard-Bréholles, op.
Cit., p. 864). is a letter wrote by the Emperor Frederick II, his father, to Giovanni
Raimo, the administrator of the castles of Abruzzo, to ensure to provide the sustain
of his son Federico of Antioch and his wife Margherita Lancia, daughter of Galvano
Lancia, Prince of Salerno who was elected the Grand Marshal of the Reign. The
opinion of Manselli (R. Manselli, Corrado of Antioch, cit., P. 467) states that the
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