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Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

King of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor (1194-1250, 1220-1250) · Italy · Historical Figures · Died at 55

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Medieval king who spoke six languages, wrote poetry, outlawed trial by ordeal, got excommunicated four times, and was called both "Wonder of the World" and "forerunner of the Antichrist" - often by the same generation.

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Frederick II and eagleFrederick II and eagleCagli - Archivio Storico Comunale - Sigillo dell'imperatore Federico II -13 febbraio 1240 -Cagli - Archivio Storico Comunale - Sigillo dell'imperatore Federico II -13 febbraio 1240 -Darstellung Friedrichs II. als siebenter Kopf des apokalyptischen Drachens (cropped)Darstellung Friedrichs II. als siebenter Kopf des apokalyptischen Drachens (cropped)Darstellung Friedrichs II. als siebenter Kopf des apokalyptischen DrachensDarstellung Friedrichs II. als siebenter Kopf des apokalyptischen DrachensDuke Ludwig I of Bavaria is taken prisoner by Count William of Jülich during Frederick II campaign to Lower Rhine, 1214Duke Ludwig I of Bavaria is taken prisoner by Count William of Jülich during Frederick II campaign to Lower Rhine, 1214Emperor Hadrian, head by court workshop of Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor, Sicily, c. 1240, chalcedony, clothing, Sicily, c. 1600, gilt silver, gold - Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City - DSC06927Emperor Hadrian, head by court workshop of Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor, Sicily, c. 1240, chalcedony, clothing, Sicily, c. 1600, gilt silver, gold - Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City - DSC06927Federigo II Imp (BM 1866,1208.691 1)Federigo II Imp (BM 1866,1208.691 1)Zentralbibliothek Zürich - Falkner mit Kaiser Friedrich II., Kopie aus einer Handschrift aus dem 13. Jahrhundert - 991112016439705501Zentralbibliothek Zürich - Falkner mit Kaiser Friedrich II., Kopie aus einer Handschrift aus dem 13. Jahrhundert - 991112016439705501

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  1. Italy is my inheritance, and this is well known to all the world.

    1236, To Pope Gregory IX (AD 1236); reported by Matthew Paris (tr. J. A. Giles, vol. 1, p. 39), Own words

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Born in 1194 to a Hohenstaufen emperor and a Sicilian queen, Frederick was crowned King of Sicily at three. By 1220 he held Germany, Italy, Burgundy, and the imperial crown; by 1225 he added Jerusalem through marriage and a crusade. He built an absolutist state in Sicily with a secular bureaucracy, patronized the Sicilian School of poetry that shaped modern Italian, and ran a Palermo court that became the intellectual center of the early 13th century. The papacy, caught between his northern and southern territories, excommunicated him four times and declared him the Antichrist's herald. He died in 1250; his Hohenstaufen line collapsed soon after, and the empire slid into the Great Interregnum.

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Italy
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Type
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Lived 1194 to 1250 · aged 55

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