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Frederick II (1194-1250). King of Sicily from 1198 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1215 to 1250. "His strong sympathies with his Italian motherland and his unremitting endeavors to establish a. compact and all-supreme empire in Italy were the causes, not only of his own misfortunes, but of the miseries which he brought upon Germany; for, by embroiling him in costly wars abroad, they led him to neglect the welfare of his German subjects." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. IX, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 207.)
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 7756. (Entrance of Frederick II into Rome, drawn by H. Vogel).
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