Frederick III of Sicily
King of Sicily from 1296 to 1337, father of Duke John, buried in the cathedral of Catania.
The Plague Comes to Messina and Catania
Anonymous of Catania, Sicilian History, printed in Rosario Gregorio’s Bibliotheca scriptorum (1791) · after April 1348 (events of October 1347 to April 1348)
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Corpus cujus fuit sepultum in majori Cataniensi Ecclesia, in eo videlicet tumulo, ubi corpus quondam Friderici Regis patris sui fuerat conditum & humatum. Et hoc anno domini MCCCXLVIII. de mense Aprilis prime Indictionis.
His body was buried in the cathedral of Catania, in the same tomb where the body of his father, the late King Frederick, had been laid to rest. This was in April, in the year of the Lord 1348, in the first indiction.