Sibylle of Acerra

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Sibylle von Acerra ( Italian : Sibilla di Medania or Sibilla di Acerra , 1153–1205) was Queen of Sicily .

Sibylle was the daughter of Count Roger von Acerra . Her brother was Richard from Acerra . In her marriage to Tankred von Lecce she had two sons, Roger and Wilhelm , and several daughters. After Tankred came to the throne, she became Queen of Sicily. Her son Roger died in 1193 and Tankred died in February of the following year. She then became the guardian of her son Wilhelm.

Her followers were Richard von Aiello and his brother Nikolaus von Salerno . In August 1194, Emperor Heinrich VI marched . in Naples and in November 1194 he crossed to Sicily. Sibylle brought Wilhelm to safety in the citadel of Caltabellotta . A defense of Palermo was not possible because its citizens offered Heinrich to surrender the city. In surrender negotiations she received from Heinrich VI. the county of Lecce and for William the principality of Taranto as fiefdoms . Sybille attended with William the coronation of Henry as King of Sicily on December 25, 1194 in the Cathedral of Palermo. On December 29, 1194, however, she was accused of participating in a conspiracy by Norman nobles and captured with her children.

Wilhelm was demoted, handed over to Konrad von Lützelhardt and taken to the Hohenems Castle of Alt-Ems (today Hohenems in Vorarlberg ). There he is said to have been mistreated ( blinded ). His date of death is not known from some letters of Pope Coelestins III. however, it can be concluded that he probably died in 1198.
Sibylle and her daughters were imprisoned in the Alsatian monastery Hohenburg , where they spent four years despite the intercession of Pope Innocent III. lived. She and her daughters only fled to France around 1200.

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  1. ↑ Memorie storico-diplomatiche dell'antica citta e ducato di Amalfi ..., Volume 1 . Stabilimento Tipografico Nazionale, Salerno 1876, p. 373 (Italian, online version in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ Domenico Ludovico De Vincentiis: Storia di Taranto (=  Collana di storia ed arte tarantina . Volume 2 ). Mandese, Tarent 1983, p. 143 (Italian, reprint of the 1878 edition, presented by Cosimo Damiano Fonseca).
  3. ↑ a b Guglielmo III d'Altavilla, re di Sicilia. Treccani.it, accessed March 24, 2017 (Italian).
  4. ^ Luigi Salvatorelli: Storia d'Italia, Volume 4 . Mondadori, Milano 1940, p. 391 (Italian).
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SURNAME Sibylle of Acerra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sibilla di Medania (Italian); Sibilla di Acerra (Italian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Queen of Sicily
DATE OF BIRTH before 1193
DATE OF DEATH after 1200