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In January 1256 the King of Sicily and the Prince of Manfredi arrived at Taranto Siponto during a hunt in the Gargano, found the city destroyed and residents forced to live in residential homes is no longer suitable for use in an area made dall'impaludamento malaria. He decided to rebuild the city two miles north of the original settlement. His intentions were twofold: first, to create one of the most important centers of government throughout the Kingdom, according to well-established administrative fees advanced by his father, Emperor Frederick II, and second, controlling the territory whose position was Strategic also due to the proximity to the East the Byzantine Empire. The
gave his name as a sign of future prestige, honor and power. In March, the work was entrusted to the master builder Marino Capece, who reused the remains of the oldest city and arranged the import of timber by sea from Slavonia, lime stones and sand. Altogether 700 workers were employed, and many cattle. On April 23 1256, St George's Day, the first stone was laid in 1257, Parliament convened in Barletta in Apulia, Manfredi got to build the new royal city at the expense of the exchequer and his private box. In November 1263 he was awarded the Datum Orte, that the deed by which the city was officially recognized. Manfredi then entrusted the work to his uncle Manfred Maletta.
At the beginning of 1258 had been built half of the wall that look towards the sea and Foggia, forts and ramparts, and the great tower of St. Francis, the small church of Mary Magdalene and the great bell, the sound was perceptible in large distances, this was used in case of danger to to rally the few residents of Manfredonia. Manfredi solemnly inaugurated in 1264 the castle and the city. The new city was
tax benefits (exemptions) that made it a free port and its population grew by transferring people from the nearby city of San Paolo di Civitate, Trani, Carpino, Monte Sant'Angelo, Barletta, Ischitella Andria and Corato. Since its establishment was equipped with a mint and coined several imprinted coins (double tari, dinars of gold, copper and bullion).
The Angevin period
from the Castle of Manfredonia
With the battle of Benevento in 1266, which marked Manfredi's death and the passage of his possessions to Charles of Anjou, Anjou's completed the castle under the direction of master builder and superintendent Onofrio Jordan architect Pierre d'Angicourt. In 1269 Charles I confirmed the privileges which gave the city Manfredi. On February 7, 1270 work began on the new cathedral under Archbishop John VII (arrow from Ravello).
In 1272 Pope Gregory X Manfredonia and this time he visited Charles Pope was placed on the advice of a plaque at Porta Puglia and renamed the new city by the name of Sypontum Novellum or Sipontum Nova, which name, however, not stated. The
May 7, 1273 Charles I back in town, built at the expense of the city an additional tower to the north side and refine the walls of two orders, making them viable by building a road between the first and second wall, between 1279 and 1282 was completed with the castle ramparts, walls and moat.
In 1274 the cathedral was finished and the next year, meeting the Manfredonia parliament decided that the archbishop took possession of the cathedral as Pastor Bonus and the city settled the Magistrate. Since 1256 many canonical and other Siponto officiated at Manfredonia, this discord lasted until 1327. [ unclear ] Charles II, who succeeded Charles I, ordered the construction of other three towers along the walls and altered the original plan of the Castle of Manfred with the use of the French system to have a better defense. [ unclear ] In 1292 Charles II established the boundaries of the city and placed the defense in 1299 and began work on the construction of the port and the episcopate, which was finished only in 1316.
The city lost some of his privileges and in 1300, transferring to San Severo the seat of the Grand Justiciary, he lost the title of capital of Puglia ( Apuliae caput). Despite this, the city was going to become the most important commercial center of the captains [] . The strategic importance of the port Siponto is attested by the numerous trips made by real Anjou: in 1309 we embarked Charles Robert d'Anjou of Hungary to occupy the throne by right of succession, July 31, 1333 Charles Robert and his son Andrea landed at Manfredonia and in 1344, Queen Elizabeth, third wife of Charles Robert and sailed away to reach Visgrad, Poland. The Hungarians settled in Manfredonia making the port the basis of their military operations: Louis I the Great, king of Hungary and his army landed on 18 September 1345 following the assassination of his brother Andrew.
On May 6, 1380 the Gulf of Manfredonia was the scene of a fierce naval battle between the fleets of Genoa and Venice, which saw the dominance of the first, which made the prisoner Admiral of the Venetian Republic, Matteo Giustiniani. On August 13, 1380 died in the famous admiral Manfredonia Vettor Pisani Venetian while his army was at anchor in the Gulf of Manfredonia. The period
Aragonese English-
During the fifteenth century the Aragonese to conform to the times and new defensive tactics built other towers. From 1424 to 1435, Manfredonia was granted to Francesco Sforza in the county. From the middle of the '400
with King Alfonso the city of Manfredonia began loading the impoverished inhabitants of taxes and levies, and so the Aragonese, Austrians and the Bourbons. In 1444 the city touched the expenses of the coronation King Alfonso and King Ferdinand in 1459 gave a pledge in the city with other cities in Puglia to the Venetians. In 1463 the city was looted of King Ferdinand.
In 1503 the French occupied Naples and many cities of the kingdom. Only Manfredonia Taranto and remained faithful to the end to Frederick of Aragon. During the Diaspora between Venice and Spain won the first major ports including Manfredonia Puglia on a pledge by Ferdinand II of Aragon. Resistance to French
Manfredonia hosted Caesar and Guido Fieramosca when the French marshal Lautrec invaded the Kingdom of Naples. Guido was fighting against the Venetians in Puglia after they were regaining all cities except Manfredonia, defended by Charlotte of Parma said the Knight, by Alessio Lascari and Pier Luigi Farnese and the same Fieramosca. Three cities resisted France: Manfredonia, Gaeta and Naples. The Lautrec unable to conquer the city operated the raids in the surrounding countryside until one of the ships that supported the French operations were hit by the guns of the Tower of San Francesco . The city of "Manfred" So against siege in 1528 and was preserved French Emperor Charles V. The emperor himself and to alleviate riconpensarla of fidelity in 1533 reaffirmed the ancient privileges, exemptions and taxes. Under Charles V, the city enjoyed a period of happy progress and welfare
The landing of the Turks
Landing at the port of Manfredonia
Waterfront historic Manfredonia wrapped in a thick fog
Pedro Téllez-Girón y de la Cueva was deposed from the position of Viceroy of Naples by Philip III of Spain. He encouraged the Turks to come in the South, promising them the support of the Neapolitan people and so these 16 August 1620, high of 56 galleys commanded by Ali Pasha landed in Manfredonia. Be prepared in a short time the defenders were able to conquer the walls and ramparts, they opened fire from the Castle. The nuns of the convents with other citizens took refuge in the castle and after holding three days of hunger and exhausted with no hope of rescue capitulated 18 August 1620. During the assault were killed and seven hundred five hundred Manfredoniani Ottomans. The city was savagely looted and destroyed, nothing remained of the splendid medieval town years before bravely resisted Lautrec. The booty from the Turks was of 36 bronze cannons, all the church bells, a silver statue of San Lorenzo Maiorano, gold, silver, clothing, books, wheat, cereals etc. All documents were destroyed in the city, was burned the body of St. Lorenzo Maiorano (leaving only the right arm). Only the church of St. Mark's Cathedral next to the was slightly injured and it worked from the Cathedral to the construction of the new cathedral in 1640. The manfredoniani were also stripped of their clothes and abused, many of them flogged, killed and taken slaves. Among the prisoners too young Giacoma Beccarini a beautiful girl brought to Turkey as a gift to the Sultan, who was intrigued by the beauty of the girl. It became his favorite and was then the heir to the throne from James (who died at a young age). The Beccarini lived as a prisoner and sent to the nuns of St. Clare Manfredonia, where he lived years ago, a letter to find out news about his parents (who died during the sack) and two portraits of her and the nurse. The slow
reconstruction
After the descent of the Turks nothing remained of Manfred and of Anjou, but the little Church of San Marco with the time injured, part of the castle and the ancient walls. Archbishop Annibale Siponto down from the mountains to see the ruins of the Gargano said that the Turkish avalanche had left nothing but ruin, desolation, death and misery. These, aided by the cardinal, viceroy Borgia obtained exemptions for thirty years on Missing manfredoniani. In 1624 the cathedral was rebuilt in 1644 and the new seminary. Great reconstruction aid was given by Archbishop Cardinal Orsini (later Pope Benedict XIII was), who ruled the diocese Siponto 1675 to 1680. In 1737, it had a population Manfredonia of 536 inhabitants in 1749 to 3238. Only provide a public education teacher, whose remuneration amounted to 12 ducats a year in 1754 [2] . In 1783, by order of the archbishop at a cost of 200 ducats was transferred from the old cemetery located in the center of the city attached to the current location attached to the cathedral church of Santa Maria Humility. The first map of the city of Manfredonia occurred under Mayor Cipriano Giacinto April 22, 1787. Were established boundaries of the territory which touched the old Salpi (now Zapponeta) extending up to the Puglia Borgo Mezzanone, Ramatola with Santa Tecla, Farace, Chimney, Coppolachiatta, Colonel and below and from the mountains of Gargano Macchia (part of the municipality of Monte Sant'Angelo). In 1835, the road was completed and launched a Manfredonia Foggia-Manfredonia-communication from Cerignola, whose project was previously approved and implemented later. In the same year, many roads were paved internal Manfredonia and openness-to-wheel road-Manfredonia Monte Sant'Angelo. Only after the beginning of the nineteenth century, improved roads and port, it created a situation conducive to trade and the city again began to expand and grow. Evidence of this development is the fact that the town of Manfredonia in the eighteenth century was also the site of an important special courts, the Court Consulate of the Earth and Sea, which deals with disputes concerning maritime trade and foreign, as a study of Carmine de Leo. The twentieth century
Manfredonia Cathedral and Campanile of Orsini, 30s
In 1910, during a cholera epidemic, young people gathered in support of an association called "Green Cross" , which collaborated with the staff of the local health office [3] . It was the first city in Italy to be bombarded by Austrian ships during the First World War, the dawn of May 24, 1915. The railway station was hit with 100 bombs. Two plaques, one on its own in the station and another at the beginning of course remember the event.
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