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These initiatives pacification by the Curia, were perfectly known to Charles of
Anjou, who had the news of the acquittal of Corrado, claims for its safety and
security, Corrado should hand over his daughter Beatrice as a hostage to his
captain and vicar in Abruzzo, Brancaleone. Peace seemed reached, but it was not
so: Charles of Anjou, probably between 10 and 11 June 1266, while negotiations
were still in progress and no regard for the pontiff, he captured Corrado of Antioch,
which was locked in a secret location along with Giovanni di Mareri, another exile
Ghibelline that perhaps was his consanguineous and after escaped from the
Benevento battle had followed Corrado.
In this prison, the second one after Montecchio, Corrado hardly could have avoided
the most atrocious torture and death if, by luck he could not escape. Managed to
escape in January 1267, Corrado was able to achieve "extra Regnum" and take
refuge in his castle Saracinesco where it would be safe for some time. The news of
Corrado and the anger of Anjou, who in a letter of January 8, with dire threats
ordered to Andrea Brancaleone immediately, deliver to the executioner of Abruzzo,
the young daughter of Corrado, Breatrice. This was a vain outburst of cruelty. Any
plans for revenge Charles would have been meditating, had to be abandoned soon,
in fact more serious events presented in the horizon. In Germany Corradino
(cousin of Corrado of Antioch) was preparing the invasion…. the last hope of the
Hohenstaufen to recuperate the Kingdom.
Corrado of Antioch and Conradin of Swabia and his expedition to Italy
With the coronation of Charles of Anjou as King of Sicily and the defeat of Manfred
at Benevento, the situation, however, was disappointed and were Manfred
followers to urge Corradino to move toward Italy to revive the fortunes of the
Swabians and Italian Ghibellines and reacquire his hereditary kingdom of Sicily, of
which, before the usurper Manfredi and then Anjou, had private him. The contacts
with the filo Swabian in Italy were gradually strengthened, the "great Ghibelline
lords of Italy " as Manfred Maletta, Galvano and Federico Lancia, Corrado Capece
(all relatives of Corrado of Antioch), one after another, presented themselves at the
court of Corradino in Germany to wake up, says Saba Malaspina, “the young lion
and the eagle who was sleeping he had not yet strong wings”.
Faced with the possibility of an alliance between Corradino and Italian Ghibellines,
Pope Clement IV, resorted to every means to deprive the young prince of his
supporters in Germany and Italy. On 18 September 1266, he sent a letter to the
archbishops of Bremen, Cologne and Mainz, threatening excommunication to those
who supported the election of Corradino as King of the Romans. The strong papal
intervention led those involved to abandon the project of the election of Corradino,
by contrast, however, the project went further maturing projects of his descent into
Italy.
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