239:, although how Manfred came to have such a close relationship with the emperor (who died later that year) is unclear. Manfred had three other creditors to whom he had pawned the revenue of his part of Loreto. They were repaid by the gift of castles from Boniface, who thus exploited all of Manfred's debts to take control of the county of Loreto.
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Manfred with all the sold lands. It is not clear if the gold was actually paid, or if the contract was fictitious, since
Manfred already owed Boniface a large sum. With this pact Boniface became master of the entire county of Loreto, contrary to the wishes of the city of Asti. In 1197 Manfred
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and received it back as a heritable fief. The charter recording this transaction contains the only reference to
Manfred's having multiple children, since the fief was to be held by Manfred and then by "his sons and daughters, those whom he had at that time he had, as well as his other future
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witnessed the oaths between
Boniface and the citizens of Asti. A few days after that he witnessed the concession of an eighth of the county of Loreto to one citizen, standing as a guarantor for the latter. On 19 March 1197, he finally paid to the same citizen 700 ounces of gold for the 1,033
164:. In 1194 Asti blocked Manfred's efforts to sell his share of the county of Loreto to Boniface, a territory on which the commune had its sights. On 20 September 1195 at Dogliani, Manfred granted a tenth (tithe) of the income from all the tolls in his lands to the monastery of
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In 1201 city of Alba, under pressure from Asti, turned against the
Aleramici and demanded a meeting of the marquises of Montferrat, Saluzzo and Busca in Alba to settle the debts of Manfred. On 4 June 1206 at Asti, Manfred, with Boniface's son and regent,
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Aldo Settia argues his constant need of money must be associated with a lavish aristocratic lifestyle, since
Manfred is not recorded as going often to war, and the Montferrat court was a vibrant cultural
342:), attested in documents from 1218, was probably also Manfred's son. His given name was common among the Agliano, who were Manfred's vassals. Bianca, who married Bonifacio d'Agliano and was the mother of
278:(so-named after Manfred's family), and took Manfred and many of his followers captive. The captives were distributed among the cities as booty. He was ransomed in exchange for the castle and territory of
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315:). All these children must have been minors at the time to not have been named in either this charter or the later charters of 1213 and 1214 recording Manfred's possession of Boves.
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409:Lanza marqes, paubresa e nesceira
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652:Medieval Italian knights
162:Boniface I of Montferrat
112:Bonifacio di Cortemiglia
166:Santa Maria di Pogliola
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340:Iordaninus de Lança
307:legitimate heirs" (
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88:Guglielmo del Vasto
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370:chansonnier
280:Costigliole
268:Alessandria
151:Cortemiglia
59:Frederick I
621:Categories
441:References
332:Manfred II
288:William VI
256:Pontestura
212:Bossolasco
178:Cortazzone
174:Barbaresco
483:Citations
421:sirventes
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368:" in the
207:Lombardia
96:Aleramici
90:, son of
17:Manfred I
460:Manfredo
320:Beinette
272:Vercelli
128:Dogliani
120:Berengar
106:and the
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326:to the
324:Rossana
228:enfeoff
220:Recisio
194:Canelli
182:Agliano
135:Moretta
475:scene.
365:coblas
354:Poetry
216:Niella
190:Laerio
104:Tanaro
464:Lanza
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170:Neive
124:Busca
108:Belbo
67:Turin
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