A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . I? .is: 0 E- 0) C U] 0) C -. 03 [I. Ü 0 ^ S- r (D r\ Q_ w r Q r^ ui c 3 >> £ 9 CQ UI *-» „ <;_ U) 0 o «_ <D CO ^ J^ o; (U PC £. — •> c CO .E c Ü g: THE .SICILIAN KINGDOM. 107 111 this Frederick appears as a genuine Norman. The reigns of hisfather and his rival Tancred were to him but episodes to be ignored,so that his own should appear a continuation of that of the last gen-uine national ruler, William II., with its defects and oriental traitsremoved. This order of things was at variance wit
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . I? .is: 0 E- 0) C U] 0) C -. 03 [I. Ü 0 ^ S- r (D r\ Q_ w r Q r^ ui c 3 >> £ 9 CQ UI *-» „ <;_ U) 0 o «_ <D CO ^ J^ o; (U PC £. — •> c CO .E c Ü g: THE .SICILIAN KINGDOM. 107 111 this Frederick appears as a genuine Norman. The reigns of hisfather and his rival Tancred were to him but episodes to be ignored,so that his own should appear a continuation of that of the last gen-uine national ruler, William II., with its defects and oriental traitsremoved. This order of things was at variance witli all that thechurch of the time dictated in res^tect to the oiganization of a state,and left no room for its vast claims. Gregory IX., accordingly, wasin no way chary of his denunciation, and sought to abrogate the codewhich Frederick published, in 1231, as reprehensible from an eccle-siastical point of \iew. But the emjjeror, so far from letting him-self be influenced by papal mandates, — though he issued an edictagainst heretics in 1232 (Plate YII.), — proceeded witli tiie 1 Facsimile of an Edict relating to Heretics, issued by Frederick II., dei gratia Romaiior
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