# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederick-i-holy-roman-emperor
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:02:14.386Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frederick-i-holy-roman-emperor"
name: "Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor"
slug: "frederick-i-holy-roman-emperor"
description: "He held more crowns than most rulers could name — Germany, Italy, Burgundy, the Holy Roman Empire — and drowned crossing a river on crusade in 1190, his army scattering before they ever reached the Holy Land. \"Barbarossa\" wasn't even his medieval nickname; Florentines invented it a century later to tell him apart from his grandson."
tagline: "Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 to 1190"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1170_M%C3%BCnze_Deutsches_Reich_Friedrich_I..jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1122"
deathDate: "1190-06-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.6605299685859504
  historical:           27.677256
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Frederick III of Swabia became an acceptable candidate for Holy Roman Emperor in 1152 because his bloodline straddled Germany's two feuding dynasties: Hohenstaufen father, Welf mother. He collected his crowns methodically — Frankfurt and Aachen in March 1152, Pavia in 1155, Rome by papal hand that June, Arles in 1178 — and spent his reign trying to restore Roman law as a counterweight to the Church's grip on German territories after the Investiture controversy. Historians credit him with unusual stamina, battlefield skill, and political cunning that made contemporaries think him nearly superhuman. He joined the Third Crusade in 1190 and chose the overland route; attempting to cross the Saleph River, he drowned, and most of his forces abandoned the campaign. Centuries later his legend became a symbol for Italian unification, Wilhelmine Germany, and Nazi operations alike.