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>>6265782
Of course, it is our priority.

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You decided to be prudent, you did not trust the Captain and remembered how each time the French came to Italy they were betrayed. Your tentative of murder, by Guelphs, reminded you of your youth, 1282... It was 17 years ago, you were a child still, and the actions that were done this year were the cause of your first military campaign in the name of God, the Aragon Crusade. Effectively, in 1282, Guelphs ruled southern Italy, they supported the pope against the pro imperial Ghibellines, and their leader was Charles d'Anjou, King of Sicily, the one who fought against the young Conradin, whose reincarnated spirit you saw in this strange little german, Schamann he was called, heh, you remembered his escape from your castle, and wondered where he was since he was not found. Perhaps he found other small green germans, or even germans of an average size and not decoloured from an overconsumption of vegetables. Whatever, let us remain in 1282, Sicily had been prosperous because of Angevin rule, and Charles d'Anjou worked hard to bring civilisation, it means high taxes and french noblemen, in place. He even displaced the capital to the beautiful city of Naples instead of Palermo, the ancient capital of this wretched island. And what happened, supported by local noblemen and merchants, jealous of the French, and ghibelline partisans, with Aragonese gold (these wretched Aragonese already controlled several islands on the Mediterranean and their king was married to Constance of Sicily, daughter of the previous king of Sicily, Manfred, an Imperial, and a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, they plotted a revolt. Following a signal (after, according to rumors, a french soldier touched the corset of a local noblewoman to see if she was hiding weapons, because they were forbidden in Palermo) groups of agitators began to attack the French troops, just when they were a small garrison because the main fleet left to fight the Saracens in Northern Africa, following the will of the Pope. They killed everyone, the few soldiers in Palermo but the wives and children of the French too, and their Amalfitan allies who were so good for counting money and doing these mundane tasks that Italian merchants do so well. It was a bloodbath, more than 2000 people murdered in a day. And soon after Aragonese armies were pouring in the island. Of course the Spaniards could not expect to beat the Frenchmen on land so they were stopped in Southern Italy and Naples remained under Angevin control but the island of Sicily was lost. All because of the local's treachery.