Frederick Barbarossa

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Frederick I Barbarossa (1122 – 10 June 1190) was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March, crowned King of Italy in Pavia in 1154, and finally crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Adrian IV, on 18 June 1155. He was crowned King of Burgundy at Arles on 30 June 1178. The name Barbarossa came from the northern Italian cities he attempted to rule, and means "red beard" in Italian. Before his royal election, he was by inheritance Duke of Swabia (1147–1152, as Frederick III). He was the son of Duke Frederick II of the Hohenstaufen dynasty. His mother was Judith, daughter of Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria, from the rival House of Welf, and Frederick therefore descended from Germany's two leading families, making him an acceptable choice for the Empire's prince-electors.)

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Troubadours

I like a 'cavalier Frances'
And a Catalonian dame;
The courtesy of the Genoese,
And Castilian dignity;
The Provence songs my ears to please,
And the dance of the Trevisan;
The graceful form of the Arragoneze,
And the pearl of the Julian;
An English hand and face to see,
And a page of Tuscany.

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