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	Frederick III, Holy Roman emperor and German king. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In his relations with the Roman Catholic Church, Frederick was guided by his secretary, the brilliant Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II).
		Frederick’s greatest success was his acquisition of Burgundy, including the Netherlands and Belgium, for the house of Hapsburg.
		In 1473 at an interview at Trier with Charles the Bold of Burgundy, Frederick attempted to arrange the marriage of his son, later King Maximilian I, to Charles’s daughter Mary of Burgundy.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fr/Fred3HRE.html (515 words)

	Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frederick III of Habsburg (Innsbruck, September 21, 1415 – August 19, 1493 in Linz) was elected as German King as the successor of Albert II in 1440.
		Frederick was the last Emperor to be crowned in Rome, being crowned in 1452 by Pope Nicholas V.
		Ultimately, Frederick prevailed in all those conflicts by outliving his opponents and sometimes inheriting their lands from, such as in the case of his nephew Ladislaus Posthumus, from whom he gained Lower Austria in 1457, and his brother Albert VI, whom he succeeded in Upper Austria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_III,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (727 words)

	Frederick III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Frederick the Handsome, Duke of Austria from 1308 to 1330, who was elected as German King in the time of Louis the Bavarian (1326) as the result of a compromise between the Houses of Wittelsbach and Habsburg.
		Emperor Frederick III from the House of Habsburg (Frederick V as Archduke of Austria), who, as German King (elected in 1440), was crowned as Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III in 1452.
		Frederick III the Simple, who was really the third man of that name to occupy the Sicilian throne.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_III (296 words)

	Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor and German King: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		1194â“1250, Holy Roman emperor (1220â“50) and German king (1212â“20), king of Sicily (1197â“1250), and king of Jerusalem (1229â“50), son of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI and of Constance, heiress of Sicily.
		Frederick issued a circular against the pope and seized most of the Papal States; in May, 1241, he captured a number of prelates en route from Genoa to a general council in Rome, and he was threatening Rome when Gregory died.
		Frederick II by...medieval Holy Roman Emperors was ill for...party at Fredericks death was...territories in Germany and grandson...was crowned King of Sicily...rival for the German kingship...was crowned emperor in St Peters...popes.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/frederick_ii_holy_roman_emperor_and_german_king.jsp (2751 words)

	Frederick I Holy Roman Emperor and German King: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Frederick's coronation as emperor in Rome was delayed by unrest in Germany and by the revolutionary commune of Rome (1143â“55), headed by Arnold of Brescia, which controlled the city.
		Among the positive and lasting achievements of Frederick's reign are the foundations of new towns, the increase of trade, and the colonization and Christianization of Slavic lands in E Germany.
		FREDERICK I, Holy Roman emperor and German king or Frederick...successor of Holy Roman Emperor Conrad III...Guelphs), and Frederick frequently...by unrest in Germany and by the...IV, against King William I of Sicily...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/frederick_i_holy_roman_emperor_and_german_king.jsp (2330 words)

	MSN Encarta - Frederick I (Holy Roman Empire)
		He was born in Waiblingen, the son of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, duke of Swabia, and the nephew of Conrad III, king of Germany.
		Frederick was forced in 1177 to acknowledge Alexander III as pope and in 1183 to sign the Peace of Constance, acceding to the demands of the Lombards for autonomy but retaining imperial suzerainty over the towns.
		Frederick initiated the Third Crusade in 1189, and in the next year, having resigned the government of the empire to his son Henry, later Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, set out for Asia Minor.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561996/Frederick_I_(Holy_Roman_Empire).html (756 words)

	Wikinfo \| Frederick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Frederick is Friedrich in German and Frederik in Danish.
		Frederick I of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria from 1195-1198
		Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg), the Handsome, (1286-1330), Duke of Austria and King of the Romans as Frederick (III).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Frederick (298 words)

	Central Europe (including Germany), 1400-1600 A.D. \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Holy Roman Emperors struggle with increasing difficulty to control their territorial holdings—the boundaries of which continue to expand until the late sixteenth century—in the face of opposition from local princes and foreign threats, especially France and the Ottoman Turks.
		Frederick of Habsburg, duke of Styria, is elected emperor in 1440.
		Emperor Charles V rejects the Confession, and tensions between the Catholic emperor and Protestant princes persist until a temporary settlement is reached in 1555.
	www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/ht/08/euwc/ht08euwc.htm (2663 words)

	Frederick II (1194 - 1250), German King, Holy Roman Emperor
		Frederick was born on 26 December 1194, son of Constance of Altavilla and Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI.
		Frederick's father died when he was two; his mother died a year later, shortly after having him crowned King of Sicily and making him a ward of the ruthlessly-ambitious Pope Innocent III.
		Frederick had a vision of a secular empire, free from the control of the church, ruled by law.
	www.liebreich.com /LDC/HTML/HallOfFame/Frederick/FrederickII.html (581 words)

	Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Frederick I (1122/25-1190), also known as Frederick Barbarossa ("Frederick Redbeard") was elected king of Germany on March 4, 1152 in succession to his uncle Conrad III, and was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1155.
		As the son of Frederick of Hohenstaufen, duke of Swabia, and Judith of Bavaria, of the rival Guelph dynasty, Frederick was descended from Germany's two principal families, making him an acceptable choice for the Empire's princely electors as heir to the Imperial crown.
		Frederick was succeeded as king and emperor by his son Henry.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Barbarossa (359 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Empire and Papacy
		The Struggle Between Frederick Barbarossa and Alexander III, 1160-1177, in the original documents [A: Epistola Minor of the Council of Pavia, Feb. 5-11, 1160 A.D. (Encyclic.), B: Letter of John of Salisbury concerning the Council of Pavia, June 1160, C: The Peace of Venice, 1177].
		Innocent III (r.1198-1216): Sermon on the Resurrection of the Lord.
		Frederick II (r.1214-1250): Lictere Generales, establishing the University of Naples, trans.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/sbook1l.html (1351 words)

	Wikinfo \| Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Maximilian was born in Vienna as the son of the Emperor Frederick III and Eleanor of Portugal.
		Elected king of the Romans in 1486 at the initiative of his father, he became Holy Roman Emperor upon his father's death in 1493.
		Maximilian died in Wels, Upper Austria, and was succeeded as Emperor by his grandson Charles V, his son Philip I of Castile having died in 1506.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Maximilian_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (264 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Frederick I
		The conception of the dignity of the Roman emperor placed before him by these men confirmed him in his claims to the supremacy of the German kings over the Church, which he based upon the rights exercised by them during the Carlovingian period.
		Frederick failed to see that in these cities a new political factor was developing, and underrated the powers of resistance of these free municipal republics.
		The death of Urban III and the election of Gregory VIII brought about a change in the dealings of the Curia with the empire, owing chiefly to the gloomy reports from the Holy Land.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06252b.htm (2336 words)

	Important Historical People of Our Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Holy Roman emperor (1519-1558), and, as Charles I, king of Spain (1516-1556), who fought a losing battle to keep his Roman Catholic empire together in the face of emergent Protestantism and outside pressure.
		Charles was the son of Philip I, king of Castile, and Joanna the Mad; maternal grandson of Ferdinand V of Castile and Isabella I; paternal grandson of the Habsburg Holy Roman emperor Maximilian I; and great-grandson of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy.
		Maximilian, the eldest son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, was born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria.
	www.landsknechts.org /people.html (3293 words)

	Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		[[Image:Emperorfrederickiii.jpegthumb250pxleftDetail of "Aeneas Piccolomini Introduces Eleonora of Portugal to Frederick III" by Pinturicchio (1454-1513)]]'''Frederick III''' of [[Habsburg]] ([[Innsbruck]], [[September 21]] [[1415]] – [[August 19]], [[1493]] in [[Linz]]) was elected as [[King of the RomansGerman King]] as the successor of [[Albert II, Holy Roman EmperorAlbert II]] in [[1440]].
		He opposed the reform of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] at that time and was barely able to prevent the [[prince-electorelectors]] from electing another king.Still, in some ways his policies were astonishingly successful.
		In some smaller issues, Frederick was quite successful: in [[1469]] he managed to establish [[bishopric]]s in [[Vienna]] and [[Wiener Neustadt]], in which all previous Dukes of Austria had failed over the centuries.Frederick died in a failed attempt to have his left leg amputated.
	frederickiiiholyromanemperor1.quickseek.com (516 words)

	History of Austria
		With 50,000 infantry and 20,000 horse and chariots, the Celts invaded Etruria.
		Frederick, by favour of the divine mercy, august emperor of the Romans.
		Ferdinand, as a Habsburg, became Holy Roman emperor in 1619 and, allied with Bavaria and the Catholic League, defeated the Bohemians at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620.
	www.geocities.com /historyofaustria/history.html (20221 words)

	Marche Voyager - History of the Marche
		Under the first Roman Emperor, Augustus, the Marche was divided - the northern stretches formed part of the Roman Umbria, while the south was known as Picenum.
		Although at the time it was little more than an honorary title, the Holy Roman Empire thus founded was to last on and off for a thousand years and to become the focus of continual strife between the rival claims of successive popes and emperors.
		The collapse of the regime with the fall of Napoleon was as rapid as its arrival.
	www.le-marche.com /Marche/html/history.htm (1681 words)

	The Holy Roman Empire
		Ruler: Emperor Frederick III, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola.
		The Holy Roman Empire straddles Europe with borders that in theory stretch from Rome to the Baltic and from the Rhone and Meuse in the west to Prussia and Prague in the east.
		Frederick is well aware of the power of Burgundy but he also has ambitions to marry his infant son Maximilian to a rich heiress.
	freespace.virgin.net /sheldon.stevens/hre.html (712 words)

	Ancestors and Family of Frederick I Barbarossa
		Frederick was the son of Frederick II, duke of Swabia, and Judith, daughter of Henry IX, duke of Bavaria, of the rival dynasty of the Welfs.
		The successor of Eugenius III, Pope Adrian IV, honoured the Treaty of Constance and crowned Frederick emperor on June 18, 1155, in Rome.
		Frederick married Adelheid von Vohburg, daughter of Diepold III von Vohburg and Unknown, in 1147.
	nygaard.howards.net /files/3/2615.htm (730 words)

	Frederick II, Holy Roman emperor and German king
		Frederick II, Holy Roman emperor and German king: Character and Legacy - Character and Legacy Frederick II was one of the most arresting figures of the Middle Ages.
		Frederick II, Holy Roman emperor and German king: Beginning of Reign in Sicily - Beginning of Reign in Sicily Despite his promises to Pope Innocent III that when crowned Holy Roman...
		Frederick II, Holy Roman emperor and German king: King of Jerusalem - King of Jerusalem Having married (1225) Yolande, daughter of John of Brienne, he claimed the crown...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0819535.html (204 words)

	Friedrich I, 'Barbarossa' Holy_Roman_Empir (1122 - 10 Jun 1190)
		Friedrich I, 'Barbarossa' Emperor Of The Holy Roman Empire called Barbarossa or Red Beard, succeeded his uncle Conrad III as king of Germany in 1152.
		He was born in Waiblingen, the son of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, duke of Swabia (1090-1147), and the nephew of Conrad III, king of Germany.
		By attacking the Leonine City in Rome in 1167-68, Frederick was able to install one of the antipopes, Paschal III (died 1168), on the papal throne.
	www.smokykin.com /ged/f002/f56/a0025623.htm (888 words)

	Maximilian I
		Maximilian I, Holy Roman emperor, son of the emperor Frederick III and Leonora, daughter of Edward, King of Portugal, was born at Vienna Neustadt on the 22nd of March 1459.
		In August 1493 the death of the emperor left Maximilian sole ruler of Germany and head of the house of Habsburg; and on the 16th of March 1494 he married at Innsbruck Bianca Maria Sforza, daughter of Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan (d.
		The emperor's share in the work is not clear, but it seems certain that the general scheme and many of the incidents are due to him.
	www.nndb.com /people/399/000096111 (2383 words)

	Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor : Frederick III
		He became archduke Frederick V of Austria in 1424.
		He acceded as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1440 and was married to Eleanore of Portugal.
		Frederick's father was Ernest the Iron[?] (Ernst der Eiserne),born 1406 and his wife Cymburga of Masovia.
	www.fastload.org /fr/Frederick_III.html (129 words)

	THE RENAISSANCE PAPACY
		Pope Nicholas also crowned Frederick III Holy Roman Emperor in Rome; Frederick was the last Emperor crowned in the "eternal city." Nicholas' papacy sees a number of "lasts" -- the last antipope, the last imperial coronation, and the last of the Byzantine Empire.
		We know Pius for two things, the fact that he served as poet laureate to Frederick III and the fact that he served most of his papacy poking around Italy's old ruins.
		Local Roman gossips referred to Giulia as "the bride of Christ." In 1493, Alexander made Cesare, his illegitimate son, a Cardinal.
	www.christianchronicler.com /history1/renaissance_papacy.html (1463 words)

	CNN Interactive - Almanac - August 19, 1998
		In 1477, Maximilian I, son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, married Mary of Burgundy and acquired the Burgundian possessions in the Netherlands and France.
		In 1493, Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, died and was succeeded by Maximilian I. In 1561, Mary Queen of Scots arrived in Scotland to assume the throne after spending 13 years in France.
		In 1587, Sigismund III, son of John of Sweden, was elected King of Poland.
	www.cnn.com /almanac/9808/19 (778 words)

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