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subjecting the fortress of Montecchio a series
of assaults proved to be a failure. Corrado
went around the town, groped to infringe
resistance in a major point of vulnerability, in
the lowest of the wall near a door of a small
castle called "castrum inferius."
Corrado approached the "castrium inferius"
and through its door entered beyond the
walls with numerous soldiers. There was
engaged a great battle between the Swabian soldiers and the Montecchio army, in
the course of which, however, Corrado of Antioch was captured and imprisoned in
the Fortress, under the supervision of several guards. All this happened at the end
of 1263. The news of the imprisonment of Corrado soon came to Manfred, who
immediately ordered that a more numerous army, with head Galvano Lancia, was
sent against Montecchio to destroy it and free the prisoner's nephew. Galvano
besieged Montecchio which, however, resisted; including the futility of military
force, Galvano to obtain the release of Corrado resorted to a weapon more effective:
corruption. In fact, to the complicity of the guards and especially the mayor of
Montecchio Baglione Baglioni, Galvano bought the favor with a considerable sum
of money, Corrado of Antioch, after more a month of captivity managed to escape
in a January night.
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of arrival in Italy of Charles of Anjou.
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Came to know of the events of
Montecchio, Urban IV in 1264
excommunicated Corrado, for
damage to the lands of the
Church, Corrado of Antioch, who
in the meantime left the Marches,
and was returning to the
Kingdom to assist Manfredi, who
wanted to organize a serious
military defense in the imminence
Corrado met in June 1265 with Manfredi in Lucera, probably to make
arrangements for the forthcoming war against Charles, and in the hope of
preventing access to the French in the Kingdom, Manfredi and Corrado decided to
invade the Roman territory. For the age and the experience acquired, Corrado of
Antioch was now able to deal with any situation. The bonds of blood and the
troubled affairs of the kingdom which directly invested his family, were the