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Cosenza, to remove the body of the excommunicated, and the prelate, who was
proud enemy of the Swabian, he hastened to obey, and at night he exhumed the
body and carry it over an unmarked grave in the Garigliano (The Garigliano is a
river in central Italy).
Corrado of Antioch did not come in time to the battle along with Manfred; he had
been to Abruzzo to defend its borders and to recruit troops. If all these forces were
united under a single command it could have given a hard time to Charles, and
instead the army were scattered, without a head, in the midst of populations that
the Angevin victory and death of Manfred had made deploy against Swabians. So it
was not difficult to get hold of the whole kingdom.
At the news of the defeat, which marked the end of the southern kingdom of
Hohenstaufen, Corrado, to avoid capture, fled for his feuds between the ridges of
the Apennines of Abruzzo. Corrado began one of the most difficult periods of his
life
The Papacy had long been in conflict with the Imperial house of Hohenstaufen over
their rule in Italy. At the time of the battle, the Hohenstaufen ruler in the Kingdom
of Sicily (which included Sicily and southern Italy) was Manfred, illegitimate son of
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor. While the rightful heir to the kingdom was
Frederick's legitimate grandson Conradin, he was young and safely across the Alps
in Bavaria. Taking advantage of a false rumor of Conradin's death, Manfred had
usurped the throne in 1258. Pope Urban IV determined to wrench the Kingdom
from him, and in 1263, concluded a secret treaty with Charles of Anjou, giving him
the Sicilian throne.
Corrado of Antioch, perhaps reluctantly, he, the grandson of Frederick II and fierce
Ghibelline, turned to the pope to intervene with Charles of Anjou requesting for
forgiveness, he asked to be released from excommunication imposed for damage
caused to the lands of the Church when he was vicar of Manfred in Marches .
The path of forgiveness was for Corrado long and troubled. The pope did not
intervene directly with his decision, but on April 10, 1266 he wrote to Cardinal
Rodolfo Vescovodi Albano, entrusting the task to investigate the facts and express
all Montecchio a final judgment on the whole matter. The Cardinal Rodolfo
embraced the assignment, takig also the responsibility to decide on acquittal of the
excommunication leaning over Corrado. The pope, mindful of obstinacy shown by
Corrado to people and property of the Church, demands that Cardinal Rodolfo
forced him to offer "sufficienten et idoneam cautionem" to observe how the Holy
See would have enjoined by imposing a time limit within which appear at the papal
Curia. Received the guarantees requested, Corrado of Antioch was absolved from
excommunication that Urban IV had fined him and all the members of his race.
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