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acquitted, Corrado of Antioch died reconciled to the Church to which he offered
two sons archbishops. In that period of great uncertainty so it is likely that Corrado
of Antioch had decided to stand aside and let down the trend of political events,
and had retired. Also not to be forgotten or underestimated the expression of
Honorius IV who in 1286 called “Corrado beloved son of the Church”.
A short note from Honorius IV, dated Rome, February 5, 1286, is very important
because it reveals Corrado of Antioch at that time had returned in peace with the
Church. The pope wrote to Cardinal Gerard, bishop of Sabina and tied
Headquarters Apostolic, inviting him to absolve from excommunication some
residents of Antina, a village near Sora, who had accompanied Corrado of Antioch
in its various raids. In his paper, the pontiff said that those citizens had come to:
“in auxilium dilectii filii nobilis viri Conrad de Abtiochia, priusquam ad mandate
nostra ed ecclesie Romane rediret” (Crf. Les Registres de Honorious IV, cit. n. 282;
G. P. Carosi, op. Cit., page 56). The whole expression confirms the reconciliation of
Corrado with the Holy See. But, according to a posterior document it would seem
that Conrad was forced to come to terms with the pope, after most of his fiefs had
been recaptured by the forces of the Church.
Possible reflecting the fact that Corrado, now an elderly man let himself overcome
by desires of peace and tranquility. This could be inferred from the ascertainment
that there is no news that correlate with important events in the election of
Giacomo of Aragon (his family member) King of Sicily nor taken the peace treaties
of the same Giacomo with Carlo called the “Zoppo” (son of Charles of Anjou). Nor
is he sees alongside Federico of Aragon when he was crowned in the kingdom that
had been abandoned by his brother (P. Ridola, op cit., page 254). Another clue that
could support this hypothesis and confirm the peace took place with the Holy See is
the marriage of one of his daughters (maybe that daughter Beatrice that Charles of
Anjou had given hostages to Andrea Brancaleone) Corrado with Ottaviano
Brunforte, appointed in 1297 by Pope Boniface VIII.
Corrado knew the ventures of war and captivity, brushed his death, but in the end
he managed to die, at an unspecified date, of old age and in peace, in his fief of
Anticoli that it will soon called “Anticoli Corrado” after his name. In Val d'Aniene
Corrado founded a dynasty, which conserved possession of Anticoli until 1430 and
to Saracinesco and Sambuci up to the middle of the sixteenth century. Corrado of
Antioch became the forefather of a race that never denied the Ghibellines ideals to
the house of Swabia, the dynasty that wanted to survive longer in fact in the
descendants of Corrado, in those of Antioch and Anticoli Saracinesco, the last
Ghibellines of the Val d 'Aniene.
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