Henry VII crowned emperor in Rome
June 1312
The Luxembourg king rode into a Rome torn between Guelph and Ghibelline factions and took his crown at the Lateran rather than St. Peter's, because Angevin troops held the Vatican quarter. Dante hailed him as a messianic savior who might restore imperial justice to Italy. Henry died of malaria in Tuscany the following summer.
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