Individual Details
Friedrich "Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor" Hohenstaufen
(1122 - 10 Jun 1190)
[[Category: Sacking of Rome]]
[[Category:Second Crusade]]
[[Category: Third Crusade]]
[[Category: Imperium Romanum Sacrum]]
[[Category: This Day In History June 10]]
[[Category: This Day In History July 29]]
[[Category:Bavaria]]
[[Category:State_of_Bavaria]]
[[Category:Bayern%2C_Deutschland]]
[[Category:Bavaria,_Germany]]
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'''Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor'''
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----Barbarossa,GEDCOM: Frederick Barbarossa 'Red Beard'. Birth: 1122 Swaben, Bavaria. Death: 10 JUN 1190 Turkey. Partial Burial: Church of St Peter, Antioch; Duke of Swabia, King of Germany; King of Italy; King of Burgundy; Holy Roman Emperor. Parents: Friedrich II and Judithy m. 1121. Sister: Berthe of Swabia; Marriage: Beatrix 16 JUN 1156 - Issue: Friedrich V, Heinrich VI, Otto, Beatrix, Agnes, Konrad II, Phillipp II spent his life antagonizing the papacy. He's forever associated with anti-pope Victor IV.Norwich, John Julius (2011). Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy. Random House. Epub.
When he died... somehow drowning, trying to lead troops for the Third Crusade, his men had trouble getting his body back home. It started to melt. Needless to say... he never made it back and his parts are scattered in three.
==Barbarrossa Sacks Rome==
Excerpt from Absolute Monarchs:
: "St. Peter’s itself, ringed with strongpoints and hastily dug trenches. For eight more days it held out; it was only when the besiegers set fire to the forecourt, destroying the great portico so lovingly restored by Innocent II and finally hacking down the huge portals of the basilica itself, that the defending garrison surrendered. Never had there been such a desecration of the holiest shrine in Europe. Even in the ninth century, the Saracen pirates had contented themselves with tearing the silver panels from the doors; they had never penetrated the building. This time, according to a contemporary—Otto of St. Blaise—the Germans left the marble pavements of the nave strewn with dead and dying, the high altar itself stained with blood. And this time the outrage was the work not of infidel barbarians but of the emperor of Western Christendom.
: St. Peter’s fell on July 29, 1167. On the following day, at that same high altar, the Antipope Paschal celebrated Mass and then invested Frederick—whom Pope Hadrian had crowned twelve years before—with the golden circlet of the Roman Patricius—a deliberate gesture of defiance to the Senate and People of Rome. Two days later still, he officiated at the imperial coronation of the Empress Beatrice, her husband standing at her side. Pope Alexander had no alternative; disguised as a simple pilgrim, he slipped out of the city and made his way to the coast, where he was discovered—fortunately by friends—three days later, sitting on the beach and waiting for a ship. He was rescued and taken to safety in Benevento."
==Sources==
The Establishment of the Duchy of Austria, (September 17, 1156). Doeberl, iv. p. 88.[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/austria.asp]
Norwich, John Julius (2011). Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy. Random House. Epub.
[[Wikipedia: Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor]]; [[Wikipedia: Antipope Victor IV (1159–1164)]]; [[Wikipedia: Antipope Paschal III]]
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[[Category:Second Crusade]]
[[Category: Third Crusade]]
[[Category: Imperium Romanum Sacrum]]
[[Category: This Day In History June 10]]
[[Category: This Day In History July 29]]
[[Category:Bavaria]]
[[Category:State_of_Bavaria]]
[[Category:Bayern%2C_Deutschland]]
[[Category:Bavaria,_Germany]]
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'''Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor'''
}
----Barbarossa,GEDCOM: Frederick Barbarossa 'Red Beard'. Birth: 1122 Swaben, Bavaria. Death: 10 JUN 1190 Turkey. Partial Burial: Church of St Peter, Antioch; Duke of Swabia, King of Germany; King of Italy; King of Burgundy; Holy Roman Emperor. Parents: Friedrich II and Judithy m. 1121. Sister: Berthe of Swabia; Marriage: Beatrix 16 JUN 1156 - Issue: Friedrich V, Heinrich VI, Otto, Beatrix, Agnes, Konrad II, Phillipp II spent his life antagonizing the papacy. He's forever associated with anti-pope Victor IV.Norwich, John Julius (2011). Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy. Random House. Epub.
When he died... somehow drowning, trying to lead troops for the Third Crusade, his men had trouble getting his body back home. It started to melt. Needless to say... he never made it back and his parts are scattered in three.
==Barbarrossa Sacks Rome==
Excerpt from Absolute Monarchs:
: "St. Peter’s itself, ringed with strongpoints and hastily dug trenches. For eight more days it held out; it was only when the besiegers set fire to the forecourt, destroying the great portico so lovingly restored by Innocent II and finally hacking down the huge portals of the basilica itself, that the defending garrison surrendered. Never had there been such a desecration of the holiest shrine in Europe. Even in the ninth century, the Saracen pirates had contented themselves with tearing the silver panels from the doors; they had never penetrated the building. This time, according to a contemporary—Otto of St. Blaise—the Germans left the marble pavements of the nave strewn with dead and dying, the high altar itself stained with blood. And this time the outrage was the work not of infidel barbarians but of the emperor of Western Christendom.
: St. Peter’s fell on July 29, 1167. On the following day, at that same high altar, the Antipope Paschal celebrated Mass and then invested Frederick—whom Pope Hadrian had crowned twelve years before—with the golden circlet of the Roman Patricius—a deliberate gesture of defiance to the Senate and People of Rome. Two days later still, he officiated at the imperial coronation of the Empress Beatrice, her husband standing at her side. Pope Alexander had no alternative; disguised as a simple pilgrim, he slipped out of the city and made his way to the coast, where he was discovered—fortunately by friends—three days later, sitting on the beach and waiting for a ship. He was rescued and taken to safety in Benevento."
==Sources==
The Establishment of the Duchy of Austria, (September 17, 1156). Doeberl, iv. p. 88.[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/austria.asp]
Norwich, John Julius (2011). Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy. Random House. Epub.
[[Wikipedia: Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor]]; [[Wikipedia: Antipope Victor IV (1159–1164)]]; [[Wikipedia: Antipope Paschal III]]
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Events
| Birth | 1122 | Swaben, Bayern, Germany | |||
| Death | 10 Jun 1190 | Saleph River, Turkey | |||
| Reference No | 3924231 | ||||
| Reference No | 3996183 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Friedrich "der Einäugige (one-eyed), Herzog von Schwaben" Hohenstaufen (1090 - 1147) |
| Mother | Duchess Judith Bayern (1103 - 1124) |
| Sibling | Jutta Hohenstaufen (1123 - 1195) |
| Sibling | Konrad Von Staufen (1134 - 1195) |