About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: 1194 births, 1194 by country, 1194 deaths, 1194 establishments, 1194 in Europe, Conflicts in 1194, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Jacob Anatoli, Guy of Lusignan, Tancred, King of Sicily, Nahmanides, Carucage, Tr n Th, Casimir II the Just, Wiener Neustadt, Clare of Assisi, Richard Mor de Burgh, 1st Baron of Connaught, Ezzelino III da Romano, Leopold V, Duke of Austria, Roger II Trencavel, Albertet de Sestaro, Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Lord of Offaly, Godfrey of St Victor, Henry IV, Count of Luxembourg, Emperor Xiaozong of Song, Benedetta of Cagliari, Rusudan of Georgia, Sigurd Magnusson, Kyaswa, Odon of Pozna, Abbas Benedictus, Adolf I, Count of the Mark, List of state leaders in 1194, Domnall Mor Ua Briain, Battle of Arcadiopolis, Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale, Sancho VI of Navarre, Gilbert Marshal, 4th Earl of Pembroke, Monasterio de Piedra, Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford, Raymond V, Count of Toulouse, Clare Abbey, Ly Hu Tong, Margaret I, Countess of Flanders, Sviatoslav III of Kiev, Margaret, Marchioness of Namur, Toghrul III of Seljuq, Renaud de Courtenay, Otto I, Battle of Aberconwy, 1194 in Ireland. Excerpt: Frederick II (26 December 1194 - 13 December 1250), was one of the most powerful Holy Roman Emperors of the Middle Ages and head of the House of Hohenstaufen. His political and cultural ambitions, based in Sicily and stretching through Italy to Germany, and even to Jerusalem, were enormous. However, his enemies, especially the popes, prevailed, and his dynasty collapsed soon after his death. Historians have searched for superlatives to describe him, as in the case of Professor Detwiler, who wrote: "A man of extraordinary culture, energy, and ability -- called by a contemporary chronicler stupor mundi (the wonder of the world), by Nietzsche the first European, and by many historians the fi...
