Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II


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nounthe Holy Roman Emperor who led the Sixth Crusade and crowned himself king of Jerusalem (1194-1250)

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"it could have been different," Cliff argues, offering as a contrast to holy war the story of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, who lived in Sicily and secured Christian access to Jerusalem in 1229 by simply leasing it from the reigning Muslim sultan.
After they lost their foothold in the Holy Land, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II assigned them the task of subjugating the pagans of Eastern Europe, among them a Baltic tribe known as Prussians.
Senior poet of the Sicilian school and notary at the court of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II. Celebrated during his life, he was acclaimed as a master by the poets of the following generation, including Dante, who memorialized him in the Purgatorio (XXIV, 55-57).