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present at his execution. Arrived the ranks of the condemned, among the followers
of the tyrant, preceded by Corradino, 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 present at his execution.
The prothonotary of the kingdom, ROBERTO BARI, read in public judgment;
Corradino then broke up the mantle and knelt to pray. In those supreme moments
of his life, his thoughts flew to Germany at the mother unaware of the fate of his
son, a shadow fell on the face of the prince and his lips murmured a sigh: "Ha, my
Mother! What pain will bring you my death ". Those were his last words: the
blond head, offered to the executioner, rolled shortly after bleeding on the stage.
According posterior narratives, while Roberto di Bari read the sentence, a cousin of
Charles, Count of Flanders, ran him through with his sword, saying: "It is not for
you, wretch, to condemn a prince so kind and gentle." Corradino before presenting
his neck for execution, launched his glove into the crowd, almost a pledge of
revenge, which picked up by a knight, it was taken to Peter of Aragon; after the
execution, the executioner was pierced by a masked man, but all of these are in the
legends, which show how much impression and feeling of pity which has aroused
the torment of the last of the Swabians.
After Corradino, on the same gallows were beheaded his cousin Frederick of
Austria, the counts Gualferano, Bartholomew Lancia, Gerardo and Galvano of
Donoratico and several other Ghibellines taken in Tagliacozzo, Equal fate befell
Frederick of Baden, and probably also to the marshal of Kroff Flüglingen.
Only Enrico of Castile (cousin of Charles of Anjou), saved
his life and he was sentenced to perpetual imprisonment,
but it was not for the generosity of Charles, who was not
capable of such a sentiment, but because he feared the
vengeance of his relatives. The bodies of executed
prisoners, as it had been for Manfredi, had no burial,
dragged into the sea there were abandoned and the people
gracious covered them with stones. Later, the son of
Charles, built a chapel in that place and in 1779 it became
the church of Santa Maria del Carmine and the nave of
this were gathered and buried the bones of Corradino,
over which Maximilian II wanted it to be erected a statue.
The Battle of Tagliacozzo on August 23, 1268, between the Ghibellines supporters
of Conradin of Swabia and the army of Charles of Anjou represents the last act of
Swabian power in Italy. The end of Conradin mark indeed the fall of the
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