Imprisonment. Manfred was killed at the Battle of Benevento on 26 February 1266 while fighting against his rival and successor Charles I of Sicily. Charles captured Helena and her four children and imprisoned them. She lived five years later in captivity into the castle of Nocera Inferiore where she died in 1271.

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