This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...be told hereafter concerning the sinister conduct of certain Apulian barons towards him. Shortly after he had won the kingdom, his cousin Arrigo, the second son of the King of Spain, who had been in the service of the King of Tunis, heard of what his cousin had done, and crossed from Tunis to Apulia with more than ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...be told hereafter concerning the sinister conduct of certain Apulian barons towards him. Shortly after he had won the kingdom, his cousin Arrigo, the second son of the King of Spain, who had been in the service of the King of Tunis, heard of what his cousin had done, and crossed from Tunis to Apulia with more than eight hundred valiant Spanish horsemen. King Charles received him graciously, taking him into his service, conferring upon him the senatorship of Rome, which he himself had vacated, and making him warden of the Campagna. Don Arrigo had gathered great wealth in Tunis, and he lent to King Charles, who lacked money, forty thousand golden doubloons which he never recovered, and in consequence there arose great strife, which was further aggravated by the endeavour of Don Arrigo to get from the Church the island of Sardinia. King Charles coveted this likewise, and by reason of their quarrel neither got it. Through this strife Don Arrigo made of the king an enemy; but he had some right on his side, for Charles had all the land he wanted, and ought to have consented to let his cousin have some likewise, but envy and greed prevented him. Don Arrigo declared, 'He shall slay me, or I him;' and it came to pass that Charles, now master of all, sent back the Guelfs to Florence, which city was granted to him for ten years. He marched into Tuscany, drove out the Florentine Ghibellines, laid siege to Pisa and Siena, and recovered much territory for the commune of Florence. Meantime the Ghibelline exiles made a league with the Sienese and the Pisans, and Don Arrigo and divers barons of Sicily and Apulia, to seize upon certain lands there, and they sent to summon from Germany Conradin, son of Conrad, the son of the Emperor Frederic, to descend upon Italy and wrest t...
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