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Frederick II (Holy Roman Emperor)

Frederick II (Holy Roman Emperor)

1194 CE1250 CE · Jesi (near Ancona)

Frederick II, of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was Holy Roman Emperor and king of Sicily, reigning as emperor from 1220 to 1250. A learned and unconventional ruler nicknamed 'stupor mundi' (wonder of the world), he made his Sicilian court a center of scholarship, law, and cultural exchange. During the Sixth Crusade he regained Jerusalem in 1229 through negotiation rather than battle. His repeated conflicts with the papacy, which excommunicated him several times, dominated his reign.

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Jesi (near Ancona)

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Frederick was born at Jesi in the March of Ancona on 26 December 1194, son of Emperor Henry VI and Constance of Sicily.

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