High Middle Ages · Europe · Politics

1259

Hohenstaufen loyalists make final stand in Apulia

1259

Manfred of Sicily, illegitimate son of Frederick II, consolidated Hohenstaufen holdings in southern Italy against papal pressure. He revived Palermo as a court of poets, falconers, and Arab scholars, a last gasp of cosmopolitan Sicilian kingship before Angevin conquest. Dante would place Manfred in Purgatory rather than Hell, praising his penitent death at Benevento with a sympathy unusual for a Guelph poet.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1258: Provisions of Oxford imposed on Henry III
After: 1260: Chartres Cathedral consecrated

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1258: Sarai founded by Batu's successors
After: 1260: Baibars seizes the Mamluk sultanate

Era

High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.