Frederick Barbarossa
Americannoun
noun
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And if you do come up with something, was it also there back in the days of Goethe, of Martin Luther and of Frederick Barbarossa?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2016
His maternal ancestors had been given the right, by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, to bear the arms of the Holy Roman Empire.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2015
Frederick's grandfather was the great conqueror Frederick Barbarossa; his father was Heinrich VI of Germany, the man who captured Richard the Lion-hearted and whom the Italians accurately called Heinrich the Cruel.
From Time Magazine Archive
His code name for the invasion was “Operation Barbarossa,” after the great twelfth-century tactician and emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who unified many European kingdoms under German rule as leader of the Holy Roman Empire.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Adrian IV. born at St. Albans in England, elected 3rd Dec. 1154, died 1st September 1159 Disputes with the emperor Frederick Barbarossa 173.
From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois
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