Frederick of Antioch

Frederick of Antioch ( ital: Federico di Antiochia, * 1220-1225, † 1256 in Foggia) was an illegitimate son of the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily, Frederick II The origin of his epithet is unknown. After older view his mother was related to the royal house of Antioch, but there was also a resident in Apulia Norman noble family called " Antioch ".

Life

Frederick married in 1239 Margherita di Poli, whose father had held office as a senator of Rome. They had three children:

• Conrad ( Corrado ) of Antioch ( † after 1301 ), Count of Alba, Celano and Loreto
• Margaret ( Margherita ) of Antioch
• Philippa ( Filippa ) of Antioch († 1273 as prisoners ), ∞ with Manfredo II Marquis Maletta

During the fight, his father against the Lombard League and the Pope Friedrich was first in 1244 and then appointed imperial vicar general of the March of Ancona in 1245 with the same office in Tuscany, as successor to the apostate become Pandolfo di Fasanella. 1247 he was with the county Alba ( alb ) mortgaged, who had already heard his father and is no longer exactly locatable today.

In January 1248 Frederick drove the papal party ( Guelphs ) from Florence, where he was appointed by the imperial party ( Ghibellines ) to the Podestà of the city. With the personal support of his father he took on April 25, 1249 Capraia and shortly thereafter a San Miniato, Tuscany, which was largely under imperial control. But in September 1250 the Guelphs won a victory, after which there was in Florence for a political change of direction, which overthrew the Ghibellines by the city government and Friedrich forced to withdraw in Figline Valdarno. After the death of Emperor Frederick II in December 1250 the Hohenstaufen rule finally collapsed in the whole Tuscany.

Friedrich then supported his half-brother Manfred in the government of Sicily and Italy's kingdom until the arrival of her half-brother, King Conrad IV of the 1252 he received the County of Celano. Because he refused after Conrad's death in 1254, Sicily to Pope Innocent IV to deliver, he was told this by his possessions forfeited. Until his own death in 1256 Frederick was his ruling in Sicily brother Manfred loyal.

In Frederick's services was the judge Orfinus of Lodi, who contributed with his sealed around 1245 hexameters for the glory of the Hohenstaufen.

Frederick of Antioch was buried after his death in the cathedral of Palermo. His sarcophagus is decorated with a reclining figure, which shows him as a dormant knight.