Sicilian business
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The "Sicilian business" is a historiographical term used to describe the failed attempt by Henry III of England to claim the Kingdom of Sicily for his son Edmund, who had been offered the throne by th
Effigy of King Henry III in Westminster Abbey, c. 1272
A fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript depicting Louis IX kneeling before Pope Innocent IV, recognisable by his three-tiered papal tiara
The coronation of Charles of Anjou as King of Sicily in Rome (1266), illustration from the next century.
Conrad IV of Germany
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Conrad, a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was the only son of Emperor Frederick II from his second marriage with Queen Isabella II of Jerusalem. He inherited the title of King of Jerusalem upon th
Seal of Conrad IV