kingdom of sicily

Conrad, popularly known as Conradin, was the last male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty; his attempts to seize the family patrimony of Sicily from Charles d'Anjou (itself seized from Manfred Hohenstaufen who had seized it from Conradin himself as a child) ended in his death and defeat, ending...

in 1244 emperor of Nicaea John III Doukas Vatatzes married the natural born daughter of holy roman emperor Frederick II, Anna (born Constance) of Hohenstaufen in almost 10 yrs of marriage they had no issue and, after the death of her husband, Anna stayed in Nicaea as an hostage 'till Michael...

Guillermo Raymond Moncada, count of Agosta, was a powerful man in Sicily. His influence, though, like that of many nobles in the kingdom, was tied in glove to Aragonese influence in the region, something which he knew was not to take for granted. Thus, when in 1378 the kingdom's vicar Artale I...

Long story short: what if Edmund (OTL earl of Lancaster and Leicester), second son of King Henry III of England, becomes King of Sicily in 1263? Long story long: OTL, Emperor Frederick II, who was also the King of Sicily, managed to make himself an enemy of a long list of Popes. When Frederick...

OTL, the 1280s were an unmitigated disaster for the Sicilian Angevins: first, war with Aragon in the form of the Sicilian Vespers breaks out in the spring of 1282, losing Charles of Anjou the island of Sicily (at the time, no one knows this loss will be permanent); then his son and heir, Charles...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred,_King_of_Sicily https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Benevento Manfred to me is interesting because, well, Hohenstaufens. What if he had won a crushing victory at Benevento? Say it's wildly successful, a very clear victory in his favor. How would that...