Conradin, the last legitimate Staufer, willed his lands to his Bavarian uncles and was beheaded in Naples at 16

Conradin was born on 25 March 1252 at Wolfstein near Landshut, the son of King Conrad IV, who died in 1254. He grew up under the guardianship of his uncle, Duke Ludwig of Bavaria. After his uncle Manfred, who held Sicily, died in 1266, Conradin pledged his main properties to raise an army. On 24 October 1266 he made a will leaving his possessions to Dukes Ludwig and Heinrich of Bavaria if he died without legitimate children. He crossed into Italy in 1267 and was defeated by Charles at Tagliacozzo on 23 August 1268. He fled toward Sicily by sea and was seized at Torre Astura by Giovanni Frangipane, who handed him to Charles on 12 September. Charles had him tried and beheaded in Naples on 29 October 1268, with his friend Friedrich of Baden, titular duke of Austria, and other followers. The Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie says he was allowed to make a final will, which confirmed his gifts to the Bavarian dukes and endowed monasteries. He was 16. His body was buried first on the beach and later in the Carmelite church. Since 1847 it has lain in the base of a statue by Bertel Thorvaldsen, commissioned by Crown Prince Maximilian of Bavaria, in that church.