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Frederick Barbarossa Biography
Frederick I (c.1121-90) Holy Roman Emperor from 1152 to 1190, surnamed Barbarossa or Redbeard. After defeating the Moslems at Philomelium and Iconium, he drowned in the Calycadnus, a small stream in Cilicia (1190). In Germany his memory has always been cherished.
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 732. (Death of Frederick Barbarossa in the Calycadnus, drawn by H. Vogel)
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