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<p> [[Surnamed]] [[Barbarossa]] (Red-beard), of the house of Swabia, emperor of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] ( <i> q. v </i> .) from 1152 till 1190; "a magnificent, magnanimous man, the greatest of all the Kaisers"; his reign is the most brilliant in the annals of the empire, and he himself among the most honoured of German heroes; his vast empire he ruled with iron rigour, quelling its rival factions and extending his sovereign rights to Poland, Hungary, Denmark, and Burgundy; the great struggle of his reign, however, was with [[Pope]] [[Alexander]] III. and the Lombard cities, whose right to independence he acknowledged by the treaty of Constanz; he "died some unknown sudden death" at 70 in the crusade against [[Saladin]] and the Moslem power; his lifelong ambition was to secure the independence of the empire, and to subdue the States of Italy to the imperial sway (1123-1190). </p>
<p> First king of Prussia, third elector of Brandenburg, and son of the Great Elector Frederick-William, whom as elector he succeeded in 1688; he extended his territory by purchase; supported [[William]] of Orange in his English expedition, and lent assistance to the Grand [[Alliance]] against France, for which he received the title of king of Prussia, being crowned such in [[Königsberg]] in 1701; he was "an expensive Herr, and much given to magnificent ceremonies, etiquettes, and solemnities" (1657-1713). </p>


== References ==
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<ref name="term_73458"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/frederick+i. Frederick I. from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
<ref name="term_73459"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/frederick+i.+(2) Frederick I. from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
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Latest revision as of 18:23, 15 October 2021

Frederick I. [1]

First king of Prussia, third elector of Brandenburg, and son of the Great Elector Frederick-William, whom as elector he succeeded in 1688; he extended his territory by purchase; supported William of Orange in his English expedition, and lent assistance to the Grand Alliance against France, for which he received the title of king of Prussia, being crowned such in Königsberg in 1701; he was "an expensive Herr, and much given to magnificent ceremonies, etiquettes, and solemnities" (1657-1713).

References

  1. ↑ Frederick I. from The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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