Significant1268
Battle of Tagliacozzo
Piani Palentini · near Scurcola Marsicana · Abruzzo
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
On 23 August 1268, Charles of Anjou defeated the Ghibelline army of the young Hohenstaufen claimant Conradin on the Palentine plains near Tagliacozzo. Conradin's subsequent capture and execution ended Hohenstaufen power in Italy and secured Angevin rule over Sicily and the south.
Belligerents2
- Angevins (Charles of Anjou)
- Hohenstaufen supporters (Conradin)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Tagliacozzo
- Britannica: Battle of Tagliacozzo
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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