
	Where results make sense

Topic: Frederick IV, Duke of Swabia

Related Topics

Frederick V, Duke of Swabia

Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia

Conrad II, Duke of Swabia

Frederick II, Duke of Swabia

Dukes of Swabia family tree

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

Hohenstaufen

Duke of Swabia

Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor

Lothar II, Holy Roman Emperor

Philip of Swabia

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As son of Duke Frederick II of Swabia and Judith of Bavaria, from the rival House of Guelph (or Welf), Frederick descended from Germany's two leading principal families, making him an acceptable choice for the Empire's princely electors as heir to royal crown.
		Abroad, Frederick intervened in the Danish civil war between Svend III and Valdemar I of Denmark, and negotiations were begun with the East Roman emperor, Manuel I Comnenus.
		In the, 1177, Frederick and Alexander III reconciled.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Emperor_Frederick_I (1504 words)

	Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As son of Duke Frederick II of Swabia and Judith of Bavaria, from the rival House of Guelph, Frederick descended from Germany's two principal families, making him an acceptable choice for the Empire's princely electors as heir to the Imperial crown.
		In June 1158, Frederick set out upon his second Italian expedition, which resulted in the establishment of imperial officers in the cities of northern Italy, the revolt and capture of Milan, and the beginning of the long struggle with Pope Alexander III, which resulted in the excommunication of the emperor in 1160.
		Frederick suffered a heavy defeat at the battle of Legnano near Milan, on May 29 1176, where he was wounded and for sometime believed to be dead.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/f/fr/frederick_i__holy_roman_emperor.html (1246 words)

	Read about Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pope Adrian IV in the aftermath of the overthrow by Imperial forces of the republican city commune led by Arnold of Brescia.
		Frederick VI of Swabia carried on with the remnants of the army, with the aim of burying the Emperor in Jerusalem, but efforts to conserve his body in vinegar failed.
		Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (1167 - 1191)
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (1493 words)

	Frederick Barbarossa - PLAAF.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As son of Duke Frederick II of Swabia (German Schwaben) and Judith of Bavaria, from the rival House of Guelph (or Welf), Frederick descended from Germany's two leading principal families, making him an acceptable choice for the Empire's princely electors as heir to royal crown.
		Frederick's campaign was stopped by the sudden outbreak of the plague which threatened to destroy the Imperial army and drove the emperor as a fugitive to Germany, where he remained for the ensuing six years.
		Barbarossa's son, Frederick VI of Swabia carried on with the remnants of the army, with the aim of burying the Emperor in Jerusalem, but efforts to conserve his body in vinegar failed.
	www.plaaf.com /read/Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (1751 words)

	Encyclopedia: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
		Frederick II (December 26, 1194â“December 13, 1250), Holy Roman Emperor of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was pretender to the title of King of the Romans from 1212, unopposed holder of that monarchy from 1215, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 until his death in 1250.
		Frederick's son Henry, sometimes styled Henry VII, especially during his period of rebellion in alliance with the Lombard League â” not to be confused with Henry VII of the House of Luxembourg, Holy Roman Emperor 1275-1313 â” was born 1211 in Sicily, son of Frederick's first wife Constance of Aragon.
		Frederick's illegitimate son Manfred, King of Sicily, was born in 1231 of Bianca, the daughter of Count Bonifacio Lancia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Frederick-II,-Holy-Roman-Emperor (9762 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Frederick I of Hohenstaufen (1122 – June 10 1190), also known as Frederick Barbarossa ("Frederick Redbeard") was elected king of Germany on March 4, 1152 and crowned Holy Roman Emperor on June 18 1155.
		On June 9 1156 at Würzburg, Frederick married Beatrice of Burgundy, daughter and heiress of Renaud III, becoming King of Burgundy and adding the sizeable realm of the County of Burgundy, then stretching from Besançon (Bisanz) to the Mediterranean, to his possessions.
		Frederick is the subject of many legends, including that of a sleeping hero, one initially linked to his grandson Frederick II.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (1456 words)

	FREDERICK I. - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK I. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In June 1158 Frederick set out upon his second Italian expedition, which was signalized by the establishment of imperial officcrs called podestas in the cities of northern Italy, the revolt and capture of Milan, and the beginning of the long struggle with pope Alexander III., who excommunicated the emperor on the 2nd of March 1160.
		During this visit Frederick summoned the doctors of Bologna to the diet held near Roncaglia in November 1158, and as a result of their inquiries into the rights belonging to the kingdom of Italy he obtained a large amount of wealth.
		Fredericks importance as an historical figure arises from his having obtained the electorate of Saxe-Wittenberg for the house of Wettin, and transformed the margraviate of Meissen into the territory which afterwards became the kingdom of Saxony.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FREDERICK_I_.htm (1505 words)

	CONRAD III. - LoveToKnow Article on CONRAD III.
		In 1116, together with his elder brother Frederick ii., duke of Swabia, he was left by Henry as regent of Germany, and when the emperor died in 1125 he became titular king of Burgundy, or Arles.
		His election in preference to Frederick was possibly due to the fact that owing to his absence from Germany he had not taken the oath of fealty to the new king.
		Passing over his younger son Frederick on account of his youth, he appointed as his successor his nephew Frederick III., duke of Swabia, afterwards the emperor Frederick I. Conrad possessed military talents, and had many estimable qualities, but he lacked perseverance and foresight, and was hampered by his obligations to the church.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/CONRAD_III_.htm (1139 words)

	Frederick IV, Duke of Swabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frederick IV of Hohenstaufen (1145 – 1167) was duke of Swabia, succeeding his cousin, Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1152.
		He was the son of Conrad III, king of Germany (not crowned emperor) and Gertrude of Sulzbach and thus the direct heir of the crown, had there been true heredity.
		Frederick participated in Barbarossa's campaigns in Italy, becoming one of the many casualties of the Imperial army that succumbed to disease after occupying Rome in 1167.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_IV,_Duke_of_Swabia (157 words)

	Swabia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Swabia's name is derived from that of the Suebi, a Germanic people who, with the Alemanni, occupied the upper Rhine and upper Danube region in the 3rd century AD and spread south to Lake Constance and east to the Lech River.
		Swabia was one of the five great Stamm (stem, or tribal) duchies of earlier medieval Germany—with Franconia, Saxony, Bavaria, and Lotharingia (Lorraine)—and was held by successive families.
		Rudolf of Rheinfelden, duke in 1057, was set up as German king in 1077 in opposition to Heinrich IV, who in 1079 appointed the rebel's son-in-law, Friedrich I of Hohenstaufen, duke of Swabia.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/Swabia/Swabia.html (672 words)

	Frederick I biography
		The city of Crema was reduced by Frederick after a long siege in 1160, and in 1161-62 he besieged and took Milan and razed it to the ground.
		At last, in 1177, Frederick made his peace with the Pope and was enabled to turn his attention to Germany, where he had to contend with Henry the Lion (q.v.), Duke of Bavaria and Saxony, the powerful head of the house of Guelph.
		Frederick made Poland tributary to the Empire, raised Bohemia to the rank of a kingdom, and erected the Margraviate of Austria into an independent hereditary duchy.
	www.dromo.info /frederickibio.htm (508 words)

	Henry the Lion
		Henry the Lion (1129/1131 - August 6 1195; in German, Heinrich der Löwe) was Duke of Saxony as Henry III since 1142, and Duke of Bavaria as Henry XII since 1156, both until 1180.
		He was the most powerful of the German princes of his time, until the rival Hohenstaufen dynasty succeeded in isolating him and eventually depriving him of his duchies of Bavaria and Saxony during the reign of his cousin Frederick I and of Frederick's son and successor Henry VI.
		He was the son of Henry the Proud, duke of Bavaria and Saxony, who was the son of duke Welf IV and an heiress of the Billungs, former dukes of Saxony.
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/h/he/henry_the_lion.html (471 words)

	Hohenstaufen Family
		Frederick was raised in the court at Palermo until he took over the government at the age of fourteen.
		Frederick's relations with the Church began peacefully enough, with his former guardian Innocent III gaining him the throne of the Germans and Innocent's successor Honorius crowning him Holy Roman Emperor in 1220.
		Frederick may have been near to victory when he succumbed to illness in 1250 and was entombed in Palermo.
	9sshohenstaufen.com /HohenFamily.html (865 words)

	Friedrich I, 'Barbarossa' Holy_Roman_Empir (1122 - 10 Jun 1190)
		Frederick I (Holy Roman Empire), called Frederick Barbarossa (1123?-90), Holy Roman emperor and king of Germany (1152-90), king of Italy (1155-90), and as Frederick III, duke of Swabia (1147-52, 1167-68).
		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.
		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.
	www.smokykin.com /ged/f002/f56/a0025623.htm (888 words)

	Hohenstaufen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Frederick and Conrad, the two current male Staufens, were grandsons of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor and nephews of Henry V. After the death of the intervening king and emperor Lothar III of Supplinburg, in 1137, Conrad became Conrad III of Germany.
		Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (Frederick III of Swabia)(r.
		(1050-1106) by being appointed duke of Swabia as Friedrich I in 1079.
	en.letsrock.ch /wiki/Hohenstaufen (450 words)

	Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Henry the Lion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1147 Henry married Clementia of Zähringen, thereby inheriting territories in Swabia.
		Henry long and faithfully supported his older cousin, Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) in the latter's attempts to solidify his hold on the Imperial Crown and his repeated wars with the cities of Lombardy and the Popes, several times turning the tide of battle in Frederick's favor with his fierce Saxon knights.
		When Frederick Barbarossa went on the Crusade of 1189, Henry returned to Saxony where he mobilized an army of his faithful and conquered and ravaged the rich city of Bardowick as punishment for her illoyalty.
	www.upto11.net /generic_wiki.php?q=henry_the_lion (709 words)

	Philip of Swabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Philip of Swabia (1177-1208), German king and duke of Swabia, the rival of the emperor Otto IV, was the fifth and youngest son of the emperor Frederick I and Beatrix, daughter of, count of Burgundy, and consequently brother of the emperor Henry VI.
		Having accompanied his brother Henry to Italy in 1191, Philip forsook his ecclesiastical calling, and, travelling again to Italy, was made duke of Tuscany in 1195 and received an extensive grant of lands.
		In 1197 he had set out to fetch Frederick from Sicily for his coronation when he heard of the emperor's death and returned at once to Germany.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Philip_of_Swabia (857 words)

	31st Generation (cont.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Frederick von Hohenstaufen I, Duke of Alsace and Swabia [scrapbook] was born circa 1050 in Hohenstaufen, Swabia, Bavaria.
		The founder of the line was the count Frederick, who built Staufen Castle in the Swabian Jura Mountains and was rewarded for his fidelity to Emperor Henry IV by being appointed duke of Swabia as Frederick I in 1079.
		The Hohenstaufen, especially Frederick I and Frederick II, continued the struggle with the papacy that began under their Salian predecessors, and were active in Italian affairs.
	boazfamilytree.com /gneville/aqwg35.htm (1478 words)

	Duke of Swabia - TheBestLinks.com - Hohenstaufen, Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Stuttgart, ...
		Duke of Swabia - TheBestLinks.com - Hohenstaufen, Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Stuttgart,...
		Duke of Swabia, Hohenstaufen, Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Stuttgart, 1079...
		Liudolf, Duke of Swabia, founder of Stuttgart (950 AD), son of Otto I the Great.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Duke_of_Swabia.html (196 words)

	Frederick V, Duke of Swabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frederick V of Hohenstaufen (1164 – 1170) was duke of Swabia from 1167 to his death still young.
		He was the eldest son of Frederick III Barbarossa and Beatrice, Countess of Burgundy.
		See also: Dukes of Swabia family tree – Other child rulers
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_V,_Duke_of_Swabia (79 words)

	Konrad III (1093-1152) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The son of Frederick I, duke of Swabia, and grandson of Emperor Henry IV, Conrad was appointed duke of Franconia by his uncle, Emperor Henry V, in 1115.
		In 1116, with his elder brother Frederick II, duke of Swabia, he was left by Henry as regent of Germany.
		By the end of the year Frederick and Conrad were in revolt; on Dec. 18, 1127, Conrad was elected antiking at Nürnberg and in June 1128 was crowned king of Italy at Monza.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/britannicapages/EmperorKonrad-III/EmperorKonrad-III.html (454 words)

	HENRY THE LION FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Henry the Lion (1129 – August_6 1195; in German, ''Heinrich der LÃ¶we)'' was a member of the Welf dynasty and Duke of Saxony as Henry III since 1142, and Duke of Bavaria as Henry XII since 1156, both of which he held until 1180.
		He divorced her in 1162, apparently under pressure from Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who did not cherish Welfish possessions in his home area and offered Henry several fortresses in Saxony in exchange.
		When Frederick Barbarossa went on the Crusade_of_1189, Henry returned to Saxony where he mobilized an army of his faithful and conquered and ravaged the rich city of Bardowick as punishment for her disloyalty.
	www.witwib.com /en:Henry_the_Lion (831 words)

	Articles - Frederick Barbarossa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Frederick then organized the magnificent celebration of the canonization of Charlemagne at Aachen, while restoring the peace in the Rhineland.
		The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa, English translation pub.
		Umberto Eco (trans William Weaver), "Baudolino", Harcourt 2002, ISBN 0151006903 (hardcover) - a novel set in the time and partly at the court of Frederick I. This article incorporates text from the 1911 EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica, which is in the public domain.
	www.divxa.com /articles/Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (1736 words)

	Hohenstaufen: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Their chief rivals were the Guelphs (see also Guelphs and Ghibellines), whose scion, Otto IV, was Holy Roman emperor from 1209 to 1215; but the Hohenstaufen heir, Frederick II, was elected king by a rival party in 1212.
		Born in Italy in 1194, heir to the Hohenstaufen territories in Germany and grandson of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, he was also the heir to the Norman kingdom of Sicily...
		...king (1152 90), son of Frederick of Hohenstaufen, duke of Swabia, nephew and successor...frequently acted as a mediator between his Hohenstaufen uncle, Conrad, and his Guelph cousin...discord between the rival houses of Hohenstaufen and Guelphs.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101249453 (1453 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Otto of Freising
		Through his mother's first marriage with the Hohenstaufen Frederick I, Duke of Swabia, he was half-brother of Conrad III and uncle of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.
		He was especially active in bringing about a reconciliation between Frederick and Henry the Lion, and in restoring peace between the emperor and the pope.
		Hauck, "Kirchengeschichte", IV, 479 sqq.), which dominates his "Chronicle", crops up repeatedly, a spirit of "cheerful buoyancy" pervades the entire work, and the dramatis personæ are depicted more freely and with greater self-confidence.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11358b.htm (1142 words)

	Ancestors and Family of Frederick I of Swabia von Hohenstaufen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		German princely family, whose name is derived from the castle of Staufen built in 1077 by a Swabian count, Frederick.
		The most spectacular representative of the house, Frederick shifted the center of the family interests to Sicily and S Italy.
		Frederick married Agnes of Savoy, daughter of Henry IV of Germany and Bertha of Savoy, in 1079.
	nygaard.howards.net /files/3/2607.htm (270 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)