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| 1194 The
Hohenstaufen arrive to little opposition and Henry VI is crowned King of
Sicily. He is succeeded by Frederick II (Stupor Mundi) under whose reign
poetry, science, law and medicine advance. Frederick II made Sicily his preferred residence for half a century, he died there and is buried there, in the Cathedral of PalermoAfter his death, the Pope sells Sicily to the King of England, who gives it to his 8 year old son Edmund of Lancaster. |
The Ursino Castle in
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| Frederick
II purged the remaining muslims. With the expulsion of the muslims the last thread of the former ties to the east was cut off, and Sicily has been firmly oriented towards the west eversince. The Holy Roman Empire under the Hohenstaufer was in continuing conflict with the Pope. |
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The
Norman rulers had been allied with the Pope against the emperor, but
suddenly Sicily was switched from a pro-papal stance to one of opposition
and the Pope was surrounded by the empire on all sides. This was not a
tenable position, so the Pope tried to drag the French into Sicilian
affairs.
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