What the records say
- When
- 10 May 1241
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 43.55° N, 10.22° E
- Description
- 1241 naval battle
- Naval
- yes
Battle of Giglio
Sea battle in 1241
The naval Battle of Giglio, also known as the Battle of Montecristo, was fought on 3 May 1241 between a combined Imperial, Sicilian and Pisan fleet and a Genoese squadron carrying high-ranking ecclesiastical delegates to a council summoned at Rome by Pope Gregory IX. The engagement took place in the Tyrrhenian Sea between Montecristo and Giglio and ended in a decisive victory for the forces of Emperor Frederick II.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Giglio: an Imperial fleet defeats a Genoan fleet in the Tyrrhenian Sea”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Durch die Gefangennahme ranghoher Kirchenfürsten in der Seeschlacht von Giglio verhindert Kaiser Friedrich II. das Zustandekommen eines gegen ihn gerichtetes…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “битва при Мелории: имперский флот победил генуэзский флот в Тирренском море”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page