Meanings (ES + gloss)
güelfa • güelfo
In the politics of medieval Italian city states, any member of a faction that supported the Pope in a long struggle against the Ghibellines and the Holy Roman Emperor.
1893, Oscar Browning, Guelphs and Ghibellines: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1250-1409, Methuen & Co., page 13, The parties of Guelph and Ghibelline raged as fiercely as…