Re: Guelphs and Ghibellines (was Italian Ren)

[steele@sprynet.com]

Poster: steele@sprynet.com



On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, teresa marie nava-vaughn <tmn@wam.umd.edu> wrote:
>
>It was more of a political struggle than a fashion war.  The Guelphs were
>a strong faction in Italy. They were ardent supportors of the Pope's
>political control of Italy and favored city-states over the German
>Emperors.  The Ghibellines fought for German Imperial control of Italy.
>The Ghibelline name comes from a Hohenstaufen estate (Waiblingen). Guelf
>also has German roots being the name of a 9th century German ducal family.
>
  Not a bad start, but the struggle goes even deeper into economics, social 
development, land rights, inheritance law, and all sorts of reasons why the 
wealthy elements of Italian city-states outside of the Kingdom of Naples seemed 
to naturally split into at least two factions. Once Ghibelline-ism was 
effectively dead, the Guelfs themselfs split into a White Guelf and Black Guelf 
faction
 --- Esclarmonde
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