Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 to 1190
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Lived 1122–1190, aged 68France
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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.
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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 superhu…
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