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After Simon de Montfort failed to gain the hand of the Countess of Flanders, he was offered a different marriage part...
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We have to distinguish Simon's title, because there was more than one prominent Englishman with that name. Simon the ...
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Richard of Cornwall, who occasionally rebelled against his brother, King Henry III of England, aided him against a re...
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Richard of Cornwall was only two years younger than his brother Henry, who became King of England. He rebelled agains...
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Pope Urban IV's first move to try to curtail Manfred of Sicily's imperial ambitions was to excommunicate him. This wa...
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When King John of England died in 1216, his eldest child, Henry, was barely nine years old. He would become Henry III...
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After Manfred of Sicily (née Lancia) was excommunicated by the pope in 1254, he handled it in two ways. The first was...
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We're going to look at the life of Manfred (1232 - 1266), who became King of Sicily. He was originally called Manfred...
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Events were in place for a final showdown between Charles of Anjou, declared King of Sicily by Rome, and Conradin, te...
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We left off with Manfred of Sicily killed during battle (illustration) with the forces of Charles of Anjou in 1265. C...
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When Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II was King of Sicily, he also ruled over a large area that included most of Italy ...
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Events were in place for Charles of Anjou, Count of Provence, to take over Sicily. His brother, King Louis IX of Fran...
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While Charles of Anjou was consolidating his rule in Provence and Forcalquier between 1250 and 1252, events elsewhere...
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The French word gabelle derives from the Italian gabella, which means "duty." It was a tax applied to agricultural an...
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Some months after Charles of Anjou married Beatrice of Provence in 1246, therefore becoming Count of Provence and For...
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The agreement was made in 1245 between several powerful individuals that Beatrice of Provence (heir to the counties o...
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Charles of Anjou became Count of Provence and Forcalquier by his marriage in 1246 to Beatrice of Provence. His attemp...
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King Louis VIII of France (1187 - 1226) and Blanch of Castile (1188 - 1252) had several children, one of whom became ...
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After Maria of Antioch "sold" her claim to Queen of Jerusalem to Charles of Anjou, however illegal it was to the High...
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Maria of Antioch had a stronger claim to the throne of Jerusalem in 1268 than the man who was crowned.Born c.1220, sh...