Ghib·el·line 
(gĭbə-lēn′, -līn′, -lĭn)
(gĭbə-lēn′, -līn′, -lĭn)n.
A member of the aristocratic political faction who fought during the Middle Ages for German imperial control of Italy, in opposition to the Guelphs and the papacy.
[Italian Ghibellino, from Middle High German *wībeling, name of a Hohenstaufen estate.]