Henry VI marries Constance of Sicily
January 27, 1186
Barbarossa's son married the thirty-one-year-old aunt and heiress of the young Sicilian king William II at Milan. The marriage, dismissed at the time as unlikely to matter, would in a few years bring the Hohenstaufen dynasty the throne of Sicily and the blood feud with the papacy that doomed them.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.