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a decade, on September 12 in Genazzano, Corradino and his companions ended up
locked in the prisons of Castel San Pietro in Palestrina, made available by the
Colonna and also where were transferred Enrico of Castile and Corrado of Antioch,
To Palestrina or perhaps at his headquarters in Genazzano, Charles of Anjou, sent
publicly to the scaffolds Galvano Lancia, after having made slay his son Galeotto in
his arms. Leaving the other prisoners in Palestrina, Charles went to Rome, where
by 16 September obtained the appointed of senator for life, after he had settled his
ministers in the Capitol. At the beginning of October, the Angevin, left his vicar in
Rome, he went to Palestrina to take the prisoners and led them in chains in Naples
and after having been well exposed as allegories of his triumph made them close in
a dark prison castle of the Castel dell'Ovo, in the same castle where there was
another Swabian to languish; the daughter of Elena (Helen) and Manfredi.
When Charles returned to Palestrina to pick up the captives detained there and
bring them to Naples for the execution of the sentence, only Corrado of Antioch
remained a prisoner in Palestrina. When he was in Naples, Corradino had no
longer any doubt about the fate that would have been paid: it was entirely at the
mercy of his arch enemy and they certainly would not have saved his life, having
already done judge as "guilty of production and majesty". He asked that the Holy
Father to forgive him replace in the lap of the Church.
The Hohenstaufen Dynasty - Page 185 of 200
On 29 October 1268, Charles of
Anjou did not want any
survivors of the Hohenstaufen;
the scaffold was erected in the
Campo Moricino, (now Piazza
del Mercato). "It seemed like the
place” - writes the Raumer –
“have been chosen with malice;
to the young man before he died
he wanted to show all the
magnificence of his reign”.
When he was announced the
news of his conviction, his prison Corradino was playing chess with Frederick of
Austria. The prince was not touched, he asked and obtained a short space of time to
prepare to die, penned a paper on which upheld the will written in Germany, and
then confessed and went to the gallows. A huge crowd filled the square and sat on
top of a tower to enjoy the bloody spectacle, Charles of Anjou and his court. He
reached the ranks of the condemned, among the followers of the tyrant, preceded
by Corradino, that with a firm step up the steps of the scaffold and he looked
beautiful and innocent of all those who were to be his subjects, and now were