Book contents
- Frontmatter
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF PLATES
- I A FLOATING REPUBLIC
- II THE EXPULSION OF MOGAHID FROM SARDINIA
- III THE EXPEDITIONS AGAINST PALERMO AND MEHDIA
- IV THE FIRST CRUSADE
- V THE BALEARIC EXPEDITION
- VI WAR WITH GENOA
- VII THE WAR WITH THE NORMANS
- VIII INTO THE VORTEX
- IX PISAN COLONIES
- X FREDERICK BARBAROSSA
- XI EXPULSION OF THE GENOESE FROM CONSTANTINOPLE
- XII BARISONE OF ARBOREA
- XIII RAINALD OF COLOGNE
- XIV GENOA AND LUCCA AGAINST PISA
- XV CHRISTIAN OF MAYENCE
- XVI THE COMMUNES DEPRIVED OF THEIR CONTADI
- XVII PISA AND THE EMPEROR HENRY VI
- XVIII ‘THE GREAT REFUSAL’
- XIX PISA UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CONSULS
- XX CONSORTERIE GENTILIZIE
- XXI FROM CONSULS TO POTESTA
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
XVIII - ‘THE GREAT REFUSAL’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF PLATES
- I A FLOATING REPUBLIC
- II THE EXPULSION OF MOGAHID FROM SARDINIA
- III THE EXPEDITIONS AGAINST PALERMO AND MEHDIA
- IV THE FIRST CRUSADE
- V THE BALEARIC EXPEDITION
- VI WAR WITH GENOA
- VII THE WAR WITH THE NORMANS
- VIII INTO THE VORTEX
- IX PISAN COLONIES
- X FREDERICK BARBAROSSA
- XI EXPULSION OF THE GENOESE FROM CONSTANTINOPLE
- XII BARISONE OF ARBOREA
- XIII RAINALD OF COLOGNE
- XIV GENOA AND LUCCA AGAINST PISA
- XV CHRISTIAN OF MAYENCE
- XVI THE COMMUNES DEPRIVED OF THEIR CONTADI
- XVII PISA AND THE EMPEROR HENRY VI
- XVIII ‘THE GREAT REFUSAL’
- XIX PISA UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CONSULS
- XX CONSORTERIE GENTILIZIE
- XXI FROM CONSULS TO POTESTA
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
The death of Henry VI led first to the abandonment and then to the total ruin of the Imperial system which he and his father had so persistently striven to establish in Central Italy. No sooner did the news of his decease reach Tuscany than the Samminiatesi destroyed the German fortress which had given to their town its title of al Tedesco; and, in Borgo S. Genesio, the Roncaglia of Tuscany, where feudatories and Consuls had been wont to do homage to the Emperor and to his Legates, the representatives of the greater part of the Tuscan cities assembled to organize a Guelf League, after the pattern of the Lombard League, for the vindication of their rights and liberties. On the IIth of November, 1197, in the Church of S. Cristoforo, in the presence of two Cardinal Legates “et eorum parabola et mandato,” the Bishop of Volterra, as seignior of his city, and the Consuls and rectors of Florence, Lucca, Siena, Prato, and S. Miniato, made oath to maintain it.
The terms of this alliance, its character and its scope, have been so often and fully discussed that it is necessary to deal with them in this place.
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- A History of PisaEleventh and Twelfth Centuries, pp. 228 - 234Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1921