ITALY. 



345 



H : 'TT. 



ftjt the 



army. 

 *7ih NOT. 



UK 



Germans, i'adua, tlie defence of which had been com- 

 mitted to Iti ot the principal inha'. is treach- 



Tth Manjuis of 

 .'liged to deliver it up to 



The emperor having collected an army near Verona, 



.1 hiving come 



lie Milanese anm at " Corte Nuo\u," com- 



y defeated it, and carried off the carroccio as a 



the battN .f the 



fugitives were : ,-es by the inhabitants of Her- 



: were protected by I'a- 



gano delta Tor.- -issina, whose family af- 



terwards acquired so much power in Milan. The im- 

 perial am -nt, where the 

 terror k occasioned detacher I, for a time, the cities from 

 the Guelph league; and M.i.n, Brescia, Placentia, and 

 Butuuna, were 



rescia, and continued for some 

 months before it, but with ~i little succc-.s, that he was 



foptn- >ng dissembled enmity of the pope at length 



nunication 

 ran t re. against Freeh fts were released from 



* T - allegiance, and every place that received him was 



placed under an ii The first effects produced 



nd Albcri- 



' i >mno, brother :io. The .'tired 



to winter at IV i. w hi re lie -'.ill had a pow 



tn t'liniK i faction. Hen/iu, 



the natural son of the aaaptnuf, having man 

 i!ow of Ubal< ; . rhirt . , colonv in 



lurkirou- I > > .i. in the meantime, ext-rci-ing 

 the moat drea 



and friend* of the bouse of Eate at Hwlua, an< ! 

 addmi; to the BOnoptriar 



now marched towards Rome; but a crusade was 

 preached agn 

 A.n. 1?'\ where took up arm, and he was forced to .. 



design, and r elph* then 



i , -ieijrd ar.' 1 t"ok 1 t rr .,ra, tr in w h. tu r .- . : ,_ .. i i ; 

 had eipelled ' ::npri(oncd 



ibrmer nobleman a: 

 finemrnt off. m- died at the Hut 



tin- pip.il party reccivrd n i he< k by the detent Jild 



capture of the Grnoesc 



Clttan* ; and two cardinals, and 

 e*. Tirier qi. 



A. D. . r ie agl p- .ter, die<l 



a fi i drain wa* Ibllovred. in 



three week*, by that 



*. D. 1113. "tioi. t the 



:itt.n !n:. i 



i the 



tewed tnat ni* lorroer 



over 

 teise 

 but lnno< , 



board the C-enoese fleet at ( 



he was re- 

 ceived with cntbiuiasml <hen 

 Uav< iria and . h cities were 



VOL. 111. PAHI I. 



persuaded again to join the Guelph league, and from History, 

 thence to I.\ons ; where, under the protection of Louis ~~^"~~ 

 IX. kiii of France, (commonly called St. Louis), he A 

 summoned a general council of the church. 



The melancholy state of the Christians in the east Council of 

 first engrossed the attention of the council, and the Lyons- 

 French king was persuaded to undertake his expedition 

 . vpt, which afterwards proved >o disastrous. At 

 conil meeting of the council, the emperor was 

 summoned to answer the charges of the pope. His de- 

 fence was ably pleaded by Taddeo ol'Suessa ; but the 

 council found him guilty, anil solemn sentence of ex- 

 communication was pronounced, the throne of the em- 

 pire declared vacant, and the kingdoms of Sicily placed 

 under the controul of the pontiff. On being informed 

 of this sentence, Frederic at first held it in derision, 

 and wrote to all the princes of F.urope, appealing against 

 the arrogance of the church ; but the domestic treasons 

 which he toon discovered, the election of Henry, land- 

 grave of Thuringia, as king of tlu- Romans, and his sub- 

 M'tjueiit victory over Frederic's son Conrad, soon shewed 

 him the fatal i fleets of the enmity of the pope; and he 

 made every effort in his power, to reconcile himself with 

 . 'irch, butin vain. He had even determined to sub- 

 mit to the fjiiiiiihalion of a personal confession of his 

 . and for that purpose was on his 

 way to Turin, the n ' Innocent, when he was 



informed of the revolt of I'arma, which had always 

 been attached to h:~ family a revolution effected by 

 the pope in that city. The 

 iMtion at tins event put an end to all 

 idea* of accommodation ; and, collecting some rein- 



r'ledmont, which remain- 

 e hastened to join the army of his 



ton Hen/ ma. Thi- army was sicgeof 



increased ' nt the troops of I'adua, Vi- i'rm. 



lino ; 



:c garrison of Parma had ..l-o been powerfully re- 



ted from every 



cjiinr 1 ' it-lphi, and the entire 



rrrara, at the ri-k of !e:i\ ing his own territo- 

 n. '1 lie number 



oon occasioned a scan ;tv of provisions 

 in I'arma, and the emperor attempted to increase the 

 popular di- Sy tins by an act of most 



iiultv. Having oouducted, inticfatofthe 



high rank, he 



order. besieged, 



that they should wiv :cle every day 



till hi number) v. en lini-bed. But 



'Kxly ipectacle was not repeated. The troops of 

 Pavia declared that they came . not 



as executioners ; and the emperor ci>n.-ented, lest this 

 i non. i than his 



enemies. In the mean time, certain ot ultimate sue- .. 



ctn, he em pi i nny, during the winter, in 



iig a new . I \ iltoria, into which, when 



he hoc 'I to remove its in- 



habitant*. Hut the besii _ . received a supply 



of pr Mantua and I trrara, took advan- 



absenee on a hunting excursion; 

 Itli i.lv making a sally, and . the rnm- 



parts of Vittoria, carried the place. The imperialist* 

 were put to flight with great loss, and Frederic, return- 

 ing from the chace, joined tin in in their retreat to Cre- 

 mona. 'I lu whole imperial treasure and jewels fell in- 

 to the hands of the victors, and the new city was burnt 

 and rased to the ground. Notwithstanding Uiu mis* 

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