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Frederick I

noun

Son of Frederick William who in 1701 became the first king of Prussia (1657-1713).

Holy Roman Emperor from 1152 to 1190; conceded supremacy to the pope; drowned leading the Third Crusade (1123-1190). Synonyms: Barbarossa, Frederick Barbarossa.

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... dominion of the Emperors over Rome was exercised without contradiction throughout all the dynasty of the Othos and Conrads, and only became assailed under Frederick I. ...

— Rome in 1860 • Edward Dicey

... remains to be done. Look where one may in the literature which was open to Dante, one finds evidence of his universal reading. We take up such a book as Otto of Freising's Annals (to which, with his Acts of Frederick I., we shall have to refer again), and find the good bishop moralising thus on the mutability of human affairs, with especial reference to the break-up of the Empire in the middle ...

— Dante: His Times and His Work • Arthur John Butler

Words linked to "Frederick I" : Holy Roman Emperor, male monarch, Rex, king, Hohenzollern