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However, the gesture of Conradin would not be in vain, due to there were still Knights
disposed to fight against the satanic forces: the glove is picked by John of Procida in name of
Peter III of Aragon, husband of Constance of Swabia. The daughter of Manfred, and first cousin
of Conradin, is now the legitimate heir of the rights that the House of Swabia has over the
throne of their two Sicilys and the unique hope of the Ghibelline party.
It must be seen in the deployed action by John of Procida thence, another aspect of the
opposition of the Hyperborean Wisdom to the plans of the White Fraternity, i.e., the esoteric
cause of the failure of those plans. In fact, that great Hyperborean Initiate took refuge in
Aragon, with other illustrious persecuted by Charles of Anjou and the Golems, and then
incorporating the aragonese Nobility. The King gave them many Seigniories in Valencia, from
where he took contact with the Circulus Domini Canis and he integrated to their Strategy. To
him, more than anyone, corresponds the merit of have persuaded Peter III about the justice of
the Ghibelline Cause. For years this Lord of the Dog advises the King of Aragon about the
matters of Italy and plans the manner to conquer it; he was helped with enthusiastic animus
by, Constance, who wants to avenge his father Manfred and the destruction of her family,
Roger of Lauria, Conrad Lancia, and other Sicilians Knights not initiated. In 1278 Peter III feels
sufficiently strong as to carry out his Sicilian project. He sends then John of Procida in a secret
mission to Italy and Middle East.
This Sicilian Knight travels wearing the Dominican robe. He meets with the main
representatives of the Ghibelline party of Italy and Sicily, who promised to help King Aragon,
and in 1279 he reached to Constantinople to pact with the Emperor Michael Palaiologos, who
is just to be attacked by a fleet by Charles of Anjou. However, a fact that Charles of Anjou not
suspected was that, in such Age not existed more powerful fleet that the Catalan navy of King
Aragon. The byzantine contributes with thirty thousand ounces of gold to maintain the
campaign and John started the return, after passing through the isle of Sicily; there he
obtained the compromise of the Noble Alécimo de Leutini, and others, to prepare an uprising
against the French; all this arrangements obeyed to the Strategy of Peter III, who wanted to
prevent a direct struggle between France and Aragon and prefers that the change emerges from
a local plot against Charles of Anjou. In 1281 all is ready for the revolt when a maneuver of the
Golems obliged to suspend the movements. Charles of Anjou forced in Viterbo the election of
Simon de Brieu, a French Cardinal highly clarified about the plans of the White Fraternity,
which professed a ferocious hate for the House of Swabia and the Ghibelline Cause. He takes
the name of Martin IV and he immediately begins a terrible persecution of the Ghibellines in all
Italy: evidently the Golems suspected that something was contrived against Charles and they
tried to stop it. Martin IV is a typical exponent of the Golem mentality, which was improperly
called «Guelph»: of the fanatic class of Gregory VII and Innocent III, possess also the cruelty of
Arnaud Amalric; for his instance in the murders, rapes and lootings that occurred steadily,
subjecting the Sicilians to a regime of unsupportable terror: finally the own Rome will end
rebelling. But in 1282 that state of things ends in Sicily. During the Easter celebration, the 30
of March, a French soldier tries to abuse of a young Sicilian woman in Palermo and, at the cry
«death to all the French», explodes the general insurrection: the French are exterminated in
Palermo, Trapani, Corleone, Syracuse and Agrigento; in one day died eight thousands and the
rest must flee hastily from the island. In one month was not possible to find any French alive in
all Sicily.

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