Ghibelline meaning

gĭb'ə-lēn', -līn', -lĭn
A member of the aristocratic political faction who fought during the Middle Ages for German imperial control of Italy, in opposition to the Guelphs and the papacy.
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Any member of a political party in medieval Italy that supported the authority of the German emperors in Italy in opposition to the papal party of the Guelphs.
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Of this party.
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A member of a medieval aristocratic Italian faction that supported the German emperors in a long struggle against the Popes and the Guelphs.
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Origin of ghibelline

  • Italian Ghibellino from Middle High German wībeling name of a Hohenstaufen estate
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ghibelline Sentence Examples

  • During the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries Parma had its full share of the Guelph and Ghibelline struggles, in which it mainly took the part of the former, and also carried on repeated hostilities with Borgo San Donnino and Piacenza.

  • From the Tuscan league Pisa, consistently Ghibelline, stood aloof.

  • in the Ghibelline capital of Tuscany.

  • to make head against the Ghibelline party.

  • Civil Wan He lost the island, which gave itself to Aragon; and of Gue!phs thus the kingdom of Sicily was severed from that of anj Naples, the dynasty in the one being Spanish and Ghibelline, in the other French and Guelph.

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