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On that occasion there were honors and benefits for Corrado of Antioch in which
Manfredi confirmed the possession of the counties of Alba in the Marsi, of Celano,
of Loreto Aprutino, adding the County of Abruzzo and the domain of some land in
Calabria (P.F. Palumbo, op. cit., page 163; G.P. Carosi, op. cit., page 37).
There are several sources that attest to the veracity of the concessions made to
Corrado. First of all, the already mentioned Chronicon Lauretanum for what
concerns the county of Loreto. The chronist Saba Malaspina, speaking of Corrado
of Antioch, designates him always with the title of Comes Albae. The Pirro, further,
in its Sicilia sacra, reports a document which reads: “Fides est in literis Conradi
Anthiochiae Albae, Celani, Laureti et Aprutii comitis “….) magistro terrarium
suarum Calabriae” (R. Pirro, op. cit., page 982).
Finally, Ridola confirms the veracity of the concessions, remembering that in the
famous diploma of Corradino, which we will discuss later; Corrado will be shown as
the owner of all those counties (P. Ridola, op. cit., page 221 n. 4 and page 222).
The "parliament" of Foggia is therefore the first occasion, testimony from
documents, which allows the encounter with a character destined to become a
major Swabian player and leave singular marks and worthy of attention that allow
to reconstruct his adventurous existence and recklessness.
In 1258 documents show Corrado for the first time, he was engaged in a military
operation against a small group of ambassadors, sent to the Pope in Agnani by the
Florentine Guelphs. Departing from Agnani November 27, the ambassadors were
escorted to the gates of Subiaco by Mattia di Anagni, and then they were
abandoned to their fate. But there Corrado of Antioch was waiting with two
hundred horsemen and a thousand foot soldiers and for the poor ambassadors
would be the end if a help against Corrado had not deployed by the Guelph
Ruggero della Montagna Lord of Arsoli and Andrea Brancaleone. There was no
battle because Corrado did not attack the ambassadors, who passed on December 1
unharmed near Anticoli heading Arsoli. In the same year, at the time of the
"parliament" of Foggia or shortly thereafter, on a date between 1258 and 1261,
Corrado married Beatrice daughter of Galvano Lancia, while his sister Filippa
became wife of Manfred Maletta.
The wife, Beatrice, was daughter of Galvano Lancia. The Head of the House of this
Ghibelline Piedmont family was Manfredi I Lancia. He had two sons, Manfredi II
and Bonifaccio of Agliano. Manfredi II was podestà 9 of Alessandria and vicar
9 Podestà is the name given to certain high officials in many Italian cities, since the later Middle
Ages, mainly as Chief magistrate of a city state (like otherwise styled counterparts in other cities,
e.g. rettori "rectors"), but also as a local administrator, the representative of the (Holy Roman)
Emperor.
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