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==References == | <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> | ||
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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_73458"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/frederick+i. Frederick I. from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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Frederick I. [1]
Surnamed Barbarossa (Red-beard), of the house of Swabia, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire ( q. v .) 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).
