Ancona had sided with the Guelphs in…
1532 CE
Ancona had sided with the Guelphs in the struggle between the Popes and the Holy Roman Emperors that had troubled Italy from the twelfth century onward.
Differently from other cities of northern Italy, Ancona never became a seignory.
The sole exception was the rule of the Malatesta, who took the city in 1348 taking advantage of the black death and of a fire that had destroyed many of its important buildings.
The Malatesta were ousted in 1383.
The city in 1532 definitively loses its freedom and becomes part of the Papal States, under Pope Clement VII.