CONRADIN, CONItADI'NO, son of Conrad IV. and of Elizabeth of Bavarie, was an infant when his father died In 1251. Ile was acknowledged as Duke of Suable, but hie father's splendid inherit ance of Sicily Lod Apulia passed into the bands first of Slanfrs-d and afterwards of Charles of Anjou, by the battle of La Grandella, 1265, in which Mantled was killed.
In the autumn of 1267. Conradin, when only 16 years of age, set out for Italy at the head of a few thousand men. At Verona he was well received by the great Ohibeline leaders of northern Italy. Ile entered Rome without upposition, the pope being then at Viterbo, and thence took the road of the Abruzzi. He met his opponent, Charles, at Tagliaoozzo, near the Lake of Celano, on the 23rd of August 1268. The battle was long contested; the Germans had at first the advan tage, and, elated with success, were pursuing the French, when Charles, who had been lying in wait, came up with his reserve and completely routed them. Couradio es:Aped from the field of battle with his cousin Frederic, duke of Austria, and other., and descending from the mountains reached the village of Altura, on the sea coast near the Pomptine marshes, expecting to find some means of reaching the fleet of his allies the Pisaoe, which was in the neighbourhood. But John
Frangipani, lord of Altura, seized upon him and delivered him up to Charles for a sum of money. Ile was taken to Naples, tried, and, not withstanding the protest of a celebrated jurist, Guido da Luzzano, and others, he was condemned and beheaded in the marketplace on the 29th of October ]26S, together with Frederic of Austria and several of their followere. The story of the glove said to have been thrown down by Conradin from the scaffold, to be delivered to Peter of Aragon, the husband of Constance, daughter of Idanfred, does not seem sufficiently authenticated. A chapel was raised on the place of the execution. The chapel ne longer exists ; but in the vestry of the new church of Santa Croce al Siercato, built opposite to it, is a small column of porphyry, which once stood on the very spot of the scaffold, with a Latin distich commemorative of the event. (Valary, ' Voyages en Italia) Couradide mother hastened from Germany to ransom her son. Coming too late, she used the money in founding the great convent Del Carmioe, where the remains of Conradin and Frederic of Austria were deposited behind the great altar.