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assume the dual coat of arms Antioch: if before 1268 was definitely Ghibelline "in
black silver eagle, crowned of the same,"
Perhaps from that date Exchange emblems becoming "red, strewn
with golden lilies" in clear reference to Angevin lilies (GB From
Crollanza, Dictionary of Italian noble and notable families, extinct and
thriving, Pisa, 1886, I, p. 51, B. Candida Gonzaga, Memoirs of the
noble families of the southern provinces of Italy, I, Naples, 1875, p.
170).
The last days of Corrado of Antioch
The protagonist of a long and adventurous life, Corrado of Antioch, feudal knight
soon became a symbol, a living memory reference of the Swabian time, at least
ideal of all the Ghibellines central-southern Italy. Supporter, in 1282 the Sicilian
Vesper of King Peter of Aragon, his family member, Corrado, at the head of fifty
Ghibellines knights were to come under the banner of Henry VII of Luxembourg,
which came to Rome May 7, 1312 to be crowned emperor by the Cardinals.
Corrado, about seventy years, could not think of fighting in the streets of Rome, he
probably just wanted to pay homage to the emperor, probably in charge of his
knights there was some of his children. But Corrado had to endure bitterness. In
fact, the resistance of the opponents of the imperial troop led by Robert of Anjou
who was victorious and 26 May the attempt of the emperor to reach in St. Peter's
coronation was finally rejected. In late May the counts of Anquillara and
Santafiora, both Ghibellines and the same Corrado of Antioch, they decided to
leave Rome.
Henry VII could only be crowned on June 29 by three cardinals in S. John Lateran.
Val d´Aniene, Corrado of Antioch´s possessions
With this flight from Rome, our Corrado disappears from the scene of history.
Enemy of the popes, who excommunicated him three times, and three times
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