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Filangieri was a very distinguished soldier, and a man of great ability ; although he changed sides several times, he became really attached to the Bourbon dynasty, which he hoped to save by freeing it from its reactionary tendencies and infusing a new spirit into it.
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Nevertheless, Frederick sent an Imperial army in 1231, under Richard Filangieri, who occupied Beirut and Tyre, but was unable to gain control of Acre.
The arrival of the crusade was a brief respite from the Lombard War ; Filangieri remained in Tyre and did not participate.
The barons legitimized their position by appointing Alice and her husband Raoul de Soissons as regent, to secure a legitimate political position against Richard Filangieri, who was representing the emperor.
Carlo Filangieri ( May 10, 1784 – October 9, 1867 ), prince of Satriano, was a Neapolitan soldier and statesman.
Born at Cava de ' Tirreni, near Salerno, at the age of fifteen Filangieri decided on a military career, and having obtained an introduction to Napoleon Bonaparte, then first consul, was admitted to the Military Academy at Paris.
On the outbreak of the troubles of 1848, Filangieri advised the king to grant the constitution, which he did in February 1848, but when the Sicilians formally seceded from the Neapolitan kingdom Filangieri was given the command of an armed force with which to reduce the island to obedience.
According to the Gaetano Filangieri Philosophical Society, one of Filangieri's ardent admirers was Benjamin Franklin, and the two corresponded from 1780 until Filangieri's death in 1788.
In this position, he took part in the Battle of Lazzaroni and of troops against Naples, and then moved toward Sicily, where he was defeated by the forces of Carlo Filangieri.
The imperial marshal, Richard Filangieri, was able to establish himself in Jerusalem and Tyre, which he had regained by treaty in 1229, but not in Beirut or the capital in Acre.
He was present at the Battle of Casal Imbert in 1232, when his uncle John of Beirut defeated Riccardo Filangieri, Frederick's lieutenant in the east.
Filangieri and ;
His biography has been written by his daughter Teresa Filangieri Fieschi-Ravaschieri, Il Generale Carlo Filangieri ( Milan, 1902 ), an interesting, although somewhat too laudatory volume based on the general's own unpublished memoirs ; for the Sicilian expedition see V Finocchiaro, La Révoluzione siciliana del 1848-49 ( Catania, 1906, with bibliography ), in which Filangieri is highly criticised.
* Catalogo del Museo Civico Gaetano Filangieri principe di Satriano ; a cura di B. Capasso, E. Cerillo ; con note di G. Filangieri, Napoli 1888
Filangieri and became
The crusaders, led not by Frederick but by his representatives Richard Filangieri, Henry IV, Duke of Limburg, and Hermann of Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, arrived in the east late in 1227, and while waiting for the emperor they set about refortifying Sidon, where they built the sea castle, and Montfort, which later became the headquarters of the Teutonic Knights.
Filangieri and Bourbon
On the restoration of the Bourbon king Ferdinand IV ( I ), Filangieri retained his rank and command, but found the army utterly disorganized and impregnated with Carbonarism.
Filangieri and dynasty
Filangieri strongly advocated a Constitution as the only measure which might save the dynasty, but on the king ’ s refusal he resigned.
Filangieri and which
Alice ordered Filangieri to be arrested, and along with the Ibelins and Venetians, besieged Tyre, which fell in July, 1243.
Filangieri and by
For the post of prime minister he at once appointed Carlo Filangieri, who, realizing the importance of the Franco-Piedmontese victories in Lombardy, advised Francis II to accept the alliance with the Kingdom of Sardinia proposed by Cavour.
Filangieri and new
On the death of Ferdinand II ( May 22, 1859 ) the new king Francis II appointed Filangieri premier and minister of war.
Filangieri and .
Both John and Filangieri raced back to Cyprus to assert their authority, and the imperial forces were defeated at the Battle of Agridi on June 15.
On the mainland, Filangieri had the support of Bohemund IV of Antioch, the Teutonic Knights, the Knights Hospitaller, and the Pisan merchants.
The crusaders returned to Acre, possibly because the native barons of the kingdom were suspicious of Filangieri in Tyre.
In response, the King assembled an army of 20, 000 under the command of General Carlo Filangieri and dispatched it to Sicily to subdue the Liberals and restore his authority.
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