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and daughter Philippa, born around 1242, married Manfredi Maletta (1232 –<br />

Napoli, 17 July 1310), the grand chamberlain of Manfredi Lancia, in 1258. Philippa<br />

was imprisoned by Charles of Anjou and died in prison in 1273. Children: Federico,<br />

Giovanni, Isabella, Ilaria e Francesca.<br />

He died in the battle near Foggia against the soldiers of the Pope, el 26 February<br />

1256 and is now buried beside his father in the Cathedral of Palermo.<br />

Corrado Caputo of Antioch. Son of Frederick of Antioch,<br />

the only survivor of the Hohenstaufen family in the battle of<br />

Tagliacozzo.<br />

Corrado Caputo of Antioch managed to escape the holocaust of<br />

the partisans of the Hohenstaufen because his mother,<br />

Margaret Pole, who held two of the Orsini prisoners in his<br />

castle of Saracinesco near Tivoli, she managed in swapping in<br />

exchange for her child Corrado. Corrado of Antioch henceforth led, as corsair, an<br />

incessant and annoying guerrilla war against the Anjou. Conrad of Antioch entered<br />

the service of King Peter of Aragon, his family, and died after 1315.<br />

The descendants of the House of Antioch were a rich lineage, both in Rome and in<br />

the area of Tivoli, yet at the end of the fifteenth century. The heirs occupied high<br />

positions and were awarded the highest honors in the Aragonese Sicily. Two of his<br />

sons succeeded in the episcopal see of Palermo, and various documents show that,<br />

even in the late fifteenth century, other members of the House of Antioch lived in<br />

Rome and central Italy and that a family tradition now gentrified came to the<br />

threshold the modern age.<br />

In the castle Theodoli, in the<br />

village of Sambuci near Tivoli, the<br />

left wall in front of the chapel,<br />

t<strong>here</strong> is a plaque with the<br />

inscription: “D.O.M. FAMILIA EX<br />

STIRPE REGIA – DE<br />

ANTIOCHIA” (Family of the<br />

royal lineage of Antioch). In<br />

the Church of S. Michael the<br />

Archangel are preserved various<br />

tombs of the noble house. With<br />

the D'Antiochia, descendants of<br />

Barbarossa, along with Sambuci<br />

Anticoli Saracinesco and enters in the events that accompanied the invasion of<br />

Conradin of Swabia Hohenstaufenin Italy (1267-1268).<br />

The Hohenstaufen Dynasty - Page 89 of 200

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