Unfortunately, Isabella has fled the monastery because she heard of Hippolita’s putative death and thought Manfred must have done it.
Jerome is impatient and says could not be true because he was just at the castle. When Jerome returns to the monastery, a monk tells him that Hippolita is dead news came from another friar a moment ago. Manfred turns to the herald and says his master is welcome and they will talk first, then he will allow the knight to leave unmolested. This was why Manfred conceived of the marriage between Conrad and Isabella: to unite the houses. He was wounded, imprisoned, and reported dead. Frederic married a beautiful woman who died birthing Isabella, so he traveled to the Holy Land in his grief. Manfred knows that Frederic has a claim on the house of Otranto and all his heirs had styled themselves after Alfonso, but Manfred and his father and grandfather had been too powerful to be displaced. If Manfred does not comply, there will be single combat. The herald of the large knight says he is there in the name of Frederic Marquis of Vicenza, who demands Isabella. After the dismayed Jerome departs, Manfred brings the herald in. Manfred’s fear turns to rage, and he tells Jerome he will keep his son hostage while Jerome retrieves Isabella. A herald replies that it is a knight here for the usurper of Otranto. Jerome embraces his son and then asks who is outside for Manfred. Jerome sternly says that Manfred must pardon Theodore Manfred hurriedly agrees. Manfred is startled by the helmet’s movement and begs Jerome to intercede with heaven for him.
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