FRANGIPANI

a famous family of Roman nobility which played an important part_in the quarrels of the Guelphs and Ghi bel lines in the 12th and 13th centuries. Giovanni F., a member of this family, who was lord of Astura, — captured Conradin of Swabia in 1268, — and handed him over to his enemy, Charles of Anjou. A branch of the © family still flourishes in the province — of Undine. The Croatian family are of — Slav origin, their title being properly Frankopan, and are not descended from — the Roman barons,