Charles had defeated Conradin's uncle Manfred, King of Sicily in the Battle of Benevento on 26 February 1266.

Alexander confirmed the grant in 1255 in return for 2000 ounces of gold per annum, the service of 300 knights for three months when required, and 135, 541 marks to reimburse the pope for the money he had expended attempting to oust Manfred from Sicily.

The remainder of Innocent's life was largely directed to schemes for compassing the overthrow of Manfred of Sicily, the natural son of Frederick II, whom the towns and the nobility had for the most part received as his father's successor.

However, Manfred had not lost his nerve and organized a resistance supported by his faithful Saracen troops, setting riots against the new authority.

With the usurpation of the Sicilian throne from Conradin by Manfred of Sicily in 1258, the relationship between the Papacy and the Hohenstaufen had changed again.

Historically, the Kingdom of Sicily had at times controlled parts of the eastern Adriatic seaboard, and Manfred possessed the island of Corfu and the towns of Butrinto, Avlona and Suboto, which had formed the dowry of his wife Helena.

The Caliph of Tunis, Muhammad I al-Mustansir had been a vassal of Sicily, but had shaken off his allegiance with the fall of Manfred.

Many Ghibelline officials had fled the Kingdom of Sicily to the court of Peter III of Aragon, who had married Constance, the daughter and heir of Manfred.

Tom had a sidekick named Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, and a nemesis, Crabby Appleton.

# Beatrice of Savoy, called Beatrice of Bâgé, she married in 1289 to Giacomo de Candia, Lord of Bresse and Count of Ventimiglia, and took residency near Chambéry-Le-Vieux at the Chateau de Candie by the L ’ ombre Paradise ; they had a son François de Candie ; and after becoming a widow, she re-married to Manfred III of Saluzzo

Taking advantage of a false rumor of Conradin's death, Manfred had usurped the throne in 1258.

Manfred, however, did not take the field against him until January 1266, when Charles ' main army had crossed the Alps.

Charles attempted to turn Manfred's position at Capua by a perilous crossing of the Apennines which wrecked his supply line ; but Manfred had intelligence of his move and lay in a strong position across the River Calore, crossed only by one bridge.

The family's intention was for Manfred to rest in the Schweidnitz cemetery, next to the graves of his father and his brother Lothar, who had been killed in a post-war air crash in 1922.

The Manfred Symphony, finished in 1885, became the largest, most complex work Tchaikovsky had written to that point.

Furthermore, Esplandian could be his infamous warrior son, Guy de Montfort, count of Mola, Brian de Monjaste is in fact Enrique of Castile himself, and the battle against the Arabic king is the Battle of Benevento against King Manfred of Sicily, who had a host of Arabian light cavalry and Arab archers.

Conradin's first invitation to Italy came from the Guelphs of Florence: they asked him to take arms against Manfred, who had been crowned king of Sicily in 1258 on a false rumor of Conradin's death.

In 1267 he made the fatal decision to accompany Conradin on his Italian expedition, after Charles of Anjou had been crowned King of Siciliy by Pope Clement IV and killed Conradin's uncle Manfred in the 1266 Battle of Benevento.

Before a tour of Japan beginning in September, Lynott decided to bring in another guitarist, Dave Flett, who had played with Manfred Mann's Earth Band, to enable Ure to switch to playing keyboards where necessary.

Several tracks of the next album had to be re-recorded with a new drummer, Chris Slade ( of the Manfred Mann's Earth Band ).

By this time they had changed their name to Manfred Mann & The Manfreds.

Wolfram inherited the estate after Manfred legally adopted him.

In the 2002 animated movie " Ice Age " Manfred the mammoth refers to Diego the sabre tooth cat as uber-tracker as they hunt the lone parent of the human baby that the trio has adopted.

He performed a similar function for Tchaikovsky at two points in the latter's career — in 1868-9 with the fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet and in 1882-5 with the Manfred Symphony.

With a soundtrack by Manfred Mann, it vividly captured the feel of what it was like to live in that decade in a similar manner to another film of the era, Alfie.

Indeed, the Count of Monte Cristo is quite similar to Manfred, in that he wants to keep his past a secret, feels superior to social conventions, and is following an agenda that runs counter to the social mores.

The concert opened with another big romantic score, Schumann's Overture to `` Manfred '', which suffered fate, this time with orchestral thrusts to the Byronic point to keep it afloat.

During these visits Shelley wrote the poem " Mont Blanc ", Byron wrote " The Prisoner of Chillon " and the dramatic poem Manfred, and Mary Shelley, who found the scenery overwhelming, conceived the idea for the novel Frankenstein in her villa on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of a thunderstorm.

He was a son of Peter III of Aragon and his Queen consort Constance of Sicily, daughter and heiress of Manfred of Sicily.

** edited by Manfred Fuhrmann, Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Leipzig, 1966, 2nd ed.

* 1341 – Sack of Saluzzo ( Italy ) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.

* Christine Baron, Manfred Engel ( eds.

* 1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as " The Red Baron ", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.

* 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot ( b. 1892 )

* Griehl, Manfred.

* 1957 – Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist ( b. 1902 )

Manfred Nowak, one of five of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, says that credible evidence exists supporting allegations about the use of Diego Garcia as a prison black site for alleged terrorists.

" As mentioned above in section on Derrida's deconstruction of Husserl Derrida actually argues for the contamination of pure origins by the structures of language and temporality and Manfred Frank has even referred to Derrida's work as " Neostructuralism " and this seems to capture Derrida's novel concern for how texts are structured.

Also in 1937, Manfred von Ardenne pioneered the scanning electron microscope.

Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2003.

In: Manfred Engel, Bernd Auerochs ( eds.

* 1266 – Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily.

Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.

** Manfred in The Castle of Otranto – unjustly accuses Theodore of murdering Conrad.

This secret movement mirrors one of the plots of the story, specifically the secrets surrounding Manfred ’ s possession of the castle and how it came into his family.

Hohenstaufen kings ruled in Sicily from 1194 till Manfred of Sicily was killed in the Battle of Benevento in 1266.

* 1905 – Manfred B Lee, American author ( d. 1971 )

* 2000 Ellis L. Johnson and Manfred W. Padberg

In the spring of 1941, Ribbentrop appointed an assemblage of SA men to German embassies in Eastern Europe, with Manfred von Killinger going to Romania, Siegfried Kasche to Croatia, Adolf Beckerle to Bulgaria, Dietrich von Jagow to Hungary, and Hans Ludin to Slovakia.