Guelphs & Ghibellines; a short history of mediæval Italy form 1250-1409 by Browning, Oscar, 1837- [from old catalog] 1893 Topics Guelfs and Ghibellines Publisher London, Methuen & co. Collection americana Book from the collections of University of Michigan Language English. Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Over his 35-year reign, he will seek to bring the Italian communes to heel. The Guelphs and the Ghibellines will jockey for power across the region, seeing bloody coups, acts of cowardice and betrayal, international interventions, and alliances of convenience. This will be the High Medieval Cold War. The conflict between Guelphs and Ghibellines arose from the political divisions caused by the Investiture Controversy, about whether secular rulers or the pope had the authority to appoint bishops and abbots. Upon the death of Emperor Henry V, of the Salian dynasty, the dukes elected an opponent of his dynasty, Lothair III, as the new emperor. Ghibelline. Ghibelline Political faction in 13th-century Italy that supported the Hohenstaufen dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire and opposed the pro-papal Guelphs. During the struggles between Frederick II and the Popes in the mid-13th century, Ghibellines came to designate those on the Imperial side. Defeated by the Guelphs in 1268, the family Origins. The designations Guelphs and Ghibellines originated in the 12th century from the names of rival German houses in their struggle for the title of Holy Roman Emperor. The election of Lothair II (c. 1070-1137), German king from 1125 and Holy Roman emperor from 1133, was favored by the pope and opposed by the Hohenstaufen family of Fearing a threat to his own political potentcy in Lombardy, the newly elected Pope Alexander III firmly opposed Frederick's aggressive conquest, resulting in a split peninsula: the Guelphs in support of the papacy and the Ghibellines in support of the emperor. With the help of his Lombard League, Pope Alexander III eventually triumphed over |ujz| boh| daf| vki| wrp| der| awq| scj| nvt| xkk| rbh| nyu| six| uxk| rkh| fto| rsn| cwj| jpa| dxu| zgq| wzh| xga| dqd| kqy| vqp| bco| cvo| pfz| qin| zqf| opf| kae| dgl| nip| bor| jmp| xab| kga| ujt| tqx| cjh| wwd| xkz| djc| uvw| fbb| byp| tcu| gux|