Conradin
the son of Conrad IV., Duke of Suabia, and the last of the house of Hohenstauffen; born in 1252. As the greatest part of the possessions of his family had been swept away, Conradin accepted the invitation of the Italian Ghibellines to place himself at their head.
He crossed the Alps with 10,000 men; was well received at Verona, and, notwithstanding the treason of his relatives, Meinhard and Louis of Bavaria, who left him with but 3,000 men, he entered south Italy. Charles d'Anjou, on whom the crown of Naples had been bestowed by Pope Urban IV., met Conradin at Tagliacozzo, defeated him, and caused him to be beheaded, in 1268.