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Meaning of "ghibelline"
Relating to a faction of the medieval Italian Guelphs supporting the German emperors. In English, this term typically refers to historical political alliances or factions
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- In the politics of medieval Italian city states, any member of a faction that supported the Holy Roman Emperor in a long struggle against the Guelphs and the Pope.
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They had an immediate effect on the Ghibelline opposition.
It ends with Ghibelline merlons surmounted by a metal pinnacle which covers a clock.
A series of sieges brought the city back and forth between Guelf and Ghibelline loyalty.
I swear to you on my Ghibelline faith that with Angela you will have fun.
He thus reached the status of patron of the Ghibelline League.
They were of Ghibelline sympathies and held the county of Donoratico.
Later it was a possession of the Ghibelline family of the Ezzelino.
The monks issued an Orthodoxa defensio imperialis in support of the Ghibelline party.
The Guelf and Ghibelline civil strife.
Ghibelline battlements by the will of Sigismondo Today.
Calega was a staunch Ghibelline.
They were renowned as Ghibelline supporters throughout the Middle Ages.
He was a bellicose Ghibelline.
The Ghibelline party.
The tax was deemed excessive by Ghibelline nobles of La Fratta.
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The Ghibelline merlons.
He was a crusader during the Italian crusades of Guelph against Ghibelline.
Guelph and Ghibelline.
Ghibelline rises, the pride that triumphs over the torture of that.
Guelphs and Ghibelline.
I wave goodbye with this stump, to wander abroad like a Ghibelline.
Guelf and Ghibelline.
In the following years, Pisa was one of the staunchest supporters of the Ghibelline party.
Guelph or Ghibelline.
Generally Ghibelline in tendency, it opposed Guelph Florence.
The Guelph Republic of Siena allows exiled Ghibelline rebels back into the city.
After subduing several Ghibelline towns, Castracani had conquered Pistoia and from there menaced Florence.
The thriving commune became an independent Ghibelline commune in the 11th century.
Ghibelline - style merlons.
To them he 's a Ghibelline coming over to butt in.
According to the Annales Placentini Gibellini, his family was Ghibelline in sympathy.
Bonatto gave the signal, and the Ghibelline threw down his stone on to the foundation.
She was the third and youngest daughter of Ezzelino II da Romano, a Ghibelline nobleman.
Godfrey was of German origin, a Ghibelline from the house of Hohenstaufen.
Dante, like most Florentines of his day, was embroiled in the Guelph - Ghibelline conflict.
Ezzelino III, despite remaining in the Ghibelline side, ousted the imperial governor from Monselice.
The Gherardeschi had a rivalry with the House of Visconti, another Ghibelline family of Pisa.
The local Guelph and Ghibelline factions were the Colleoni and Suardi, respectively.
Born in Genoa, he was a member of the Ghibelline Spinola Family.
In 1339 the Ghibelline exiles recaptured the city, expelling the Solaro and their helpers.
Under the Traversari family, Ravenna became a major city of the Ghibelline faction in Romagna.
In the Florentine Guelph-Ghibelline conflict, his family was a Ghibelline.
Manfred was subsequently killed ( 1266 ) at the Battle of Benevento, a crucial blow to the Ghibelline cause.
Not by that crew . To them he 's a Ghibelline coming over to butt in.
In 1339 the Ghibelline exiles recaptured the city, expelling the Solari and their allies.
In 1295 he took part in the Ghibelline leaders meeting at Argenta.
