biography
| name: |
Enzo
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known as Heinz
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pronunciation:
[enzoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1220–72)
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| biography:
| King of Sardinia. He was the illegitimate son of Frederick II, who made him King of Sardinia after his marriage in 1239 to Adelasia, the widow of Ubaldo Visconti, a magistrate on the island. He fought against the Guelphs, and was excommunicated by Pope Innocent IV (1241) for taking captive a group of prelates bound for Rome and the council that was supposed to remove Frederick from the throne. Enzo was captured at Fossalta (1249) and confined till his death in the podestà's palace, which is now called ‘King Enzo's palace’. |
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