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addressed to Padovani. It states that all prisoners were immediately sentenced to
death except Corrado de Antioch (Story of the letter reported by Ridola, op. Cit., P.
239 n. 1). Certainly Charles of Anjou, under pressure from the powerful Cardinal
Orsini, the pope and the latter on Charles of Anjou because they utilizes Corrado
for an exchange of hostages, his two prisoners brothers (C. Piccolini, Monticelli in
the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , in "Proceedings of the Society Tiburtina
and memories of history and art", 8, 1928, p. 257; E. Amadei, op. Cit., p. 1904
Gregoroius F., op. Cit., III, p . 42; V. Pacifici, op. Cit., p. 274), might have led some
of his followers to take revenge on their brothers Orsini. Both the Pope that Charles
of Anjou wanted this absolutely avoided.
Charles d'Anjou "reluctantly" (See P. Ridola, op. Cit., P. 239) could not deny the
favor to the representative of one of the most powerful Guelph families. It suggests
that Charles had kept alive Corrado of Antioch because from his existence
depended on the Orsini. The two Orsini were released and Charles of Anjou, in
turn, handed the pontiff Corrado of Antioch (P. Ridola, ibid.).
The chronicler Saba Malaspina summed up in a few lines the whole affair that
allowed Conrad to save the life after the battle of Tagliacozzo: “Corrado vero de
Antiochia post tempus ad magnam Reverendi Patris S. Cajetani Sancti Nicolai in
carcere Tulliano Diaconi Cardinalis instantiam, vitae benefficium indulgetur, et
pro excambio Domini Neapoleonis, et Domni Matthaei fratrum Cardinalis
praedicti, qui apud castrum Sarrascinesci sub uxoris ejusdem Corradi custodia
tenebantur, a Gallica potestate subducitur, et Ecclessiae donatur” (Saba
Malaspina, Rerum Sicularum, cit., col. 849).
The ceremony of the oath and the release of Corrado of Antioch are referred by a
bull of Pope Martin IV of 1282 published by Raynald (O. Raynal, op. Cit., II, a.,
1282, n. XXVI. The passage of the papal bull is reported by Ridola, op. Cit., p. 247
n. 2). Corrado of Antioch, with this solemn act, not only promised to be faithful to
the Church, but gave himself completely, also on behalf of his son, in the power of
the Pope recognizing him as his sovereign, and in part, of Charles of Anjou.
Another example to show that Conrad was still alive in 1305, in the epitaph on his
son Federico (+22-7-1305) said the "magnificent Domains Conradi de Antioch
Comitis filius Patris et Reverend Bartholomaei .... Frater" if Corrado was already
dead, Federico would have said "..... filius quondam Conradi," as he pointed the
father of Frederick, as his brother were alive.
Corrado of Antioch probably entered the diplomatic game that was
developing between the pope and the Anjou, for which he managed to
keep his feuds, provided to bind to two new "owners", as would
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