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10 mag 2024 · The two main parties were known as the Guelphs and the Ghibellines. Eventually, the Guelphs divided into two separate parties known as the White Guelphs and the Black Guelphs. Dante belonged to the White Guelphs. Unfortunately for Dante, the Black Guelphs gained power in Florence and he was banished in 1302. He never returned to his ...
5 giorni fa · But the development and riches brought by trade also accompanied social conflict, which soon developed into a bloody struggle for supremacy between Guelphs and Ghibellines, the two opposing factions that supported respectively the Church and the Empire.
2 mag 2024 · These two opposing groups did at some point adopt the names of Ghibellines and Guelphs. The aristocrats would usually become Ghibellines and the burghers tended to be Guelphs. The word Ghibelline refers to the castle of Waiblingen near Stuttgart which was the name of Agnes, the ancestor of the Hohenstaufen and the name they actually ...
23 apr 2024 · Siena, a bulwark of the Ghibelline faction, was the protagonist of significant battles against the Guelphs, including the Battle of Montaperti in 1260, an event that profoundly marked the military history of the region.
1 giorno fa · ‘The Da Varano family remained here until 1500,’ he explains. ‘Until, during the war between Guelphs and Ghibellines, they found themselves on the wrong side and were defenestrated. From then on Esanatoglia passed into the hands of the Vatican and remained so until the Kingdom of Italy.’
5 giorni fa · The Ghibellines were the Colonna, you remember, Sciarra Colonna, the guy who allegedly slapped pope Boniface VIII. The Guelphs were the Orsini, the bears. Both families still exist and the Colonna palace in Rome can be visited, something I would advise anyone travelling to the Holy city to do.
2 giorni fa · Guelphs and Ghibellines: Medieval Feud; Richard the Lionheart Faces Saladin at Arsuf; The Birth of the University in the 12th Century Renaissance; The Lady of the English: Matilda’s Battle for Her Right; The White Ship Tragedy: Nobility Lost at Sea; 14th Century AD. Castruccio Castracani: The Art Of War In The 14th Century
