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CONRADIN, or CONRAD THE YOUNGER (1252...

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 969 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONRADIN, or See also:CONRAD THE YOUNGER (1252–1268)  , See also:king of See also:Jerusalem and See also:Sicily, son of the See also:German king See also:Conrad IV., and See also:Elizabeth, daughter of See also:Otto II. See also:duke of See also:Bavaria, was See also:born at Wolfstein in Bavaria on the 25th of See also:March 1252 . Having lost his See also:father in 1254 he See also:grew up at the See also:court of his See also:uncle and See also:guardian, See also:Louis II. duke of Bavaria; but little is known of his See also:appearance and See also:character except that he was " beautiful as See also:Absalom, and spoke See also:good Latin." Although he had been entrusted by his father to the guardianship of the See also:church, he was pursued with relentless hatred by See also:pope See also:Innocent IV., who sought to bestow the See also:kingdom of Sicily on a See also:foreign See also:prince . Innocent's successor, See also:Alexander IV., continued this policy, offered the See also:Hohenstaufen lands in See also:Germany to See also:Alphonso X. king of See also:Castile, and forbade See also:Conradin's See also:election as king of the See also:Romans . Having assumed the See also:title of king of Jerusalem and Sicily, Conradin took See also:possession of the duchy of See also:Swabia in 1262, and remained for some See also:time in his dukedom . Conradin's first invitation to See also:Italy came from the Guelphs of See also:Florence, by whom he was asked to take arms against See also:Manfred, who had been crowned king of Sicily in 1258 . This invitation was refused by Louis on his See also:nephew's behalf, but after Manfred's fall in 1266 envoys from the Ghibelline cities came to Bavaria and urged him to come and See also:free Italy . Pledging his lands, he crossed the See also:Alps and issued a manifesto at See also:Verona setting forth his claim on Sicily . Notwithstanding the defection of his uncle Louis and other companions who returned to Germany, the threatenings of Pope See also:Clement IV., and lack of funds, his cause seemed to prosper . Proclaimed king of Sicily, his partisans both in the See also:north and See also:south of Italy took up arms; his See also:envoy was received with See also:enthusiasm in See also:Rome; and the See also:young king himself was welcomed at See also:Pavia and See also:Pisa . In See also:November 1267 he was ex-communicated; but his See also:fleet was victorious over that of See also:Charles duke of See also:Anjou, who had taken possession of Sicily on Manfred's See also:death; and in See also:July 1268 he was himself greeted with immense enthusiasm at Rome . Having strengthened his forces, he marched towards See also:Lucera to join the See also:Saracens . On the 23rd of See also:August 1268 he encountered the troops of Charles at See also:Tagliacozzo, but the eagerness of his soldiers to obtain See also:plunder gave the victory to the See also:French .

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field of See also:battle Conradin reached Rome, but acting on See also:advice to leave the See also:city he reached See also:Astura, where he was seized and handed over to Charles of Anjou . At See also:Naples he was tried as a traitor, and on the 29th of See also:October was beheaded with his friend and See also:companion See also:Frederick of See also:Baden, titular duke of See also:Austria . With his death the Hohenstaufen See also:race became See also:extinct . His remains, with those of Frederick of Baden, still See also:rest in the church of the monastery of See also:Santa Maria del See also:Carmine at Naples, founded by his See also:mother for the good of his soul; and here in 1847 a See also:marble statue, by See also:Thorwaldsen, was erected to his memory by See also:Maximilian, See also:crown prince of Bavaria . In the See also:great 14th See also:century " Manesse " MS . (c) collection of See also:medieval German lyrics, preserved at See also:Heidelberg, there are two songs written by Conradin, and his See also:fate has formed the subject of several dramas . See F . W . Schirrmacher, See also:Die letzten Hohenstaufen (See also:Gottingen, 1871); K . Hampe, Geschichte Konradins von Hohenstaufen (See also:Berlin, 1893) ; del Giudice, Il Giudizio e la condanna di Corradino (Naples, 1876); E . See also:Miller, Konradin von Hohenstaufen (Berlin, 1897) .

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