Episode 9.9 - Hohenstaufen Pt 3 - Frederick II

Frederick II was the grandson of Barbarossa and of Roger the Great of Sicily. He inherited kingdoms from both lineages, and then lost and regained them both. He wound up ruling a vast territory and at least in some of his lands, began shaping his kingdom in a way that would be a lead-in to post-feudal Europe, even if he didn’t quite get there himself.

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Sources

• Thomas Curtis van Cleve, The Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen - Immutator Mundi

• Lionel Allshorn, Stupor Mundi - The Life & Times of Frederick II

• Marcel Pacaut, Frederick Barbarossa

• Eugene Cox, “The Kingdom of Burgundy, The Lands of the House of Savoy and Adjacent Territories”, The New Cambridge Medieval History

• David Abulafia, “The Kingdom of Sicily Under the Hohenstaufen and Angevins”, The New Cambridge Medieval History

• John Freed, Frederick Barbarossa - The Prince and the Myth

Names Mentioned

• Alfonso II, Count of Provence

• Conrad

• Conradin

• Constance of Aragon

• Dipold

• Isabella of England

• Isabella, Queen of Jerusalem

• John, King of Jerusalem

• Markward of Anweiler

• Philip Augustus, King of France

• Walter of Palear